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 Night-Time is my Time - Mary Higgins Clark
 Night-Time is my Time - Mary Higgins Clark ... prominent historian, returns to her hometown to attend the twenty-year reunion of Stonecroft Academy, where she is to be honoured along with six other members of her class. There is, however, something uneasy in the air: one woman in the group, Alison Kenall, a beautiful, high-powered Hollywood agent, died just a few days before, drowned in her pool during an early morning swim. She is the fifth woman in the class whose life has come to a sudden, mysterious end. At the award dinner, Jean does not suspect that among the distinguished people she is greeting is the "Owl," a murderer nearing the countdown on his mission of vengeance against the Stonecroft women who had mocked or humiliated him, with Jean his final intended victim.Newest Review: ... a major talent agency and Jean's own book agent was found dead in her swimming pool just a month ago. That is part of the ... more ... reason why Jean consents to go back to the town of Cornwall-on-Hudson, near to West Point, where her lover, Reed Thornton Jr had been killed in a tragic accident just before she found out she was carrying his child. For Jean is receiving faxes from someone who knows that she gave up her baby, a girl she had called Lily, for adoption before she continued her own scholarship. Someone is threatening the life of the daughter she has never seen since the day she gave birth to her. That someone has to have become privy to her ...more |
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Night-Time is my Time - Mary Higgins Clark: The Owl. (1005 words)
by QueenElf - written on 18/03/08 (Very useful, 83 readings)
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The Owl. Mary Higgins-Clark is one of those authors that I will happily read, though she doesn't rank in my favourites list of Horror writers. I suppose some people might question this and put her books under crime/thrillers, but it's a fine line between the two genres. Since she has written so many books, I feel obliged to give her a few lines of introduction, though it will be short since I do intend to review the author at a later date. She was born in New York and raised there, the daughter of an Irish immigrant and brought up by her mother when her father died when she was just ten year's old. She became a help to her mother, doing odd jobs and ...
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