Where are You Now? - Mary Higgins Clark

I have a friend who lends me books and recently she gave me a box of books to read which I didn't look at properly until I was working my way through them. When I got to the bottom and found Where Are You Now? by Mary Higgins Clark my heart sank. I've read a few of her books and didn't feel they were particularly interesting but with nothing else to read I decided to give it a go. Where Are You Now is about a man who went missing 10 years previously. Charles MacKenzie Junior also known as Mack just disappeared for no reason but every year on Mother's Day he calls home to reassure his mother and sister he is fine but won't say where he is or why he left. ...  Read the complete review

I found this Mary Higgins Clark novel in my local Cancer Research charity shop. I have enjoyed all of her previous novels so I had to buy it. The premise of this story is that 10 years ago a 21 year old student called Charles MacKenzie Jr (Mack) vanished without a trace, he had everything going for him he was due to graduate and about to take a place at Duke University Law School. However throughout these 10 years he makes a phone call to his mother every Mother's Day. Every time he assures her he is fine but refuses to answer her questions about his whereabouts, then he promptly ends the telephone call. Even when his father is killed in the 9/11 attacks he ...  Read the complete review