Before I Say Goodbye - Mary Higgins Clarke

I have just recently started reading Mary Higgins Clarks novels and I have really enjoyed her stories. The first book I read was Before I Say Goodbye and I have to admit is one of my favourites. Before I Say Goodbye centres around the character of Nell MacDermott. The story surrounds her architect husband and three of his business associates who have been killed in an explosion aboard his boat, she is completely devastated but also feels guilty. The previous night they had a bitter argument regarding her decision to run for a congressional seat which had previously been held by her grandfather. At the end of the argument she had told him not to come home, ...  Read the complete review

I'm an avid crime reader. In fact it's pretty much the only kind of book I read. It's not even deliberate, it just keeps happening. But then there are so many subtypes within crime writing that one isn't really sticking to the same thing. I started enjoying MHC's books some eight years ago, and I have by now read most of them. Other reviewers of her work have often commented that she seems to follow a certain pattern. I have to agree. It can be summarized that the always female lead character is either a witness to something or even marginally involved in something but without being guilty of anything. Someone else pursues her to either silence her or gain ...  Read the complete review