#mary higgins clark

[fidjiefidjie]

“Tout ce qui peut être dit à 8 heures peut attendre 9 heures.”

Mary Higgins Clark

Passage à l'heure d'été cette nuit

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#short video #heure d'été #changement d'heure #heure #time #quotes #mary higgins clark #summer time #time change #fidjie fidjie

[romaincrisis]

book art

i did these when i was reading The Girl In The Train, such a good book i loved a good thriller

some comic tests

this is pat traymore from the series of mary higgins clark (such a good author of suspense) stillwatch

AND THIS BOOK

Rubout at the Onyx by H. Paul Jeffers, from the Harry MacNeil detective series

they were kinda fruity idk

and when i finished it i made some gay detectives ocs lmao I WAS UNSTOPPABLE

#illustration #drawing #artwork #artists #digital art #fanart #artist #art #book art #book illustration #book fanart #book series #mary higgins clark #art book #characterdesign #shading #2d art #book ilustration #myart

[lesserknowncryptids]

Today's lesser known cryptid is: A Stranger

#cryptids #book #mary higgins clark #lesser known cryptids

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Charlotte's Web (E.B. White) "The titular Charlotte saves Wilbur, a runt pig from slaughter by writing words in her web and making him famous. At the end of the novel, Wilbur wins a special prize at the country fair thanks to Charlotte, and she dies, leaving her spider eggs to Wilbur.

It's not just that Charlotte's a spider, she is actually a genuinely good web avatar. She manipulates a whole farm, and then a town into thinking Wilbur is something special so he doesn't get killed. She literally weaves a web. She is very dedicated to Wilbur's success, so much so that when she dies, it's sort implied that she kept herself alive until Wilbur was confirmed to be survive and the farm wouldn't kill her"

The Cinderella Murder (Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair Burke) "Actress Madison Meyer is obsessed with fame, to the point it's rumoured she helped cover up her friend's murder or even killed her herself to get her role, and she still has the nerve to act like a diva on Under Suspicion's set even though she hasn't had any significant roles in a decade and is supposed appearing on the show to solve her friend's murder. Actor Keith Ratner was a playboy with a drinking problem when he started out, though he's genuinely managed to clean up his act, albeit by getting involved with a shifty megachurch, and some people still think he murdered his girlfriend. Televangelist Martin Collins is a money-hungry Control Freak who rules his congregation with an iron fist and uses their donations to fund personal luxuries, and that's the least of his misdeeds. Frank Parker is known for being a demanding director who mostly gets involved in Under Suspicion because he doesn't want people to boycott his movies thinking he murdered a 19-year-old college student, although he did prevent his wife from starring in a sleazy movie that left the replacement actress humiliated and has stayed married for ten years (quite a record for Hollywood). And at the centre of it all is the so-called Cinderella Murder, with a young aspiring actress on her way to an audition ending up strangled to death and the crime going unsolved for twenty years, with all kinds of salacious rumours surrounding the case."

#web poll #the web #poll #the magnus archives #leitner tournament #Charlotte's Web #E.B. White #The Cinderella Murder #Mary Higgins Clark #Alafair Burke

[thetangential]

Where are the children? That question, in fiction at least, has become a lot more complicated over the past fifty years. That’s good for the children, not so great for the readers (or listeners).

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#Mary Higgins Clark #Alafair Burke #audiobooks #books #Where Are the Children Now? #Where Are the Children?

[wondermutt20]

"Approach your lives as if they were novels with their own heroes, villains, red herrings, and triumphs."

Mary Higgins Clark, author at Saint Joseph College (2002)

#quoteoftheday #quotes #quotesoftheday #quotes of tumblr #life quotes #inspirational #life quote #writers on tumblr #writerscommunity #authorsquotes #mary higgins clark #saint Joseph college #authors of tumblr #writing community

[studybl-u-rr-ed]

In relation to my 2023 Popsugar Reading Challenge, I finished two books for January:

A book you meant to read in 2022: Breasts and Eggs - Mieko Kawakami; and

A book you bought from an independent bookstore: The Cinderella Murder - Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke

So for February, I'll be finishing two more books for the following categories:

A book by a first-time author: The Silent Patient

A celebrity memoir: Crying in H-Mart

#popsugar reading challenge #popsugarreadingchallenge #reading challenge #books #literature #crying in h mart #the cinderella murder #mary higgins clark

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Mary Higgins Clark - Where Are The Children? - Fontana - 1976

#witches #children #occult #vintage #where are the children #fontana books #mary higgins clark #1976

[yes-06]

Nunca podré librarme de él por completo.

-Si ama la música y le gusta bailar.

#frases #citas #libros #leer #citas de libros #si ama la música y le gusta bailar #mary higgins clark

[sarah-maclean-completist]

#sarah maclean #montana #nora roberts #mary higgins clark #tara laskowski #iris johansen

[shadowsof-thenight]

Book Recommendations: week 9

Book 9

Where are the Children by Mary Higgins Clark

This book was my introduction to Mary Higgins Clark, back when I was a teen, and I’ve loved every minute of it.

I loved the mystery, figuring everything out bit by bit—even if you get some puzzle pieces early on, you don’t know how they fit exactly—and the suspense. Well-rounded characters, a likeable lead and while it might have been written in 1975, it doesn’t feel too dated. There's no computers as we know them now or cellphones, of course, but it didn't bother me one bit. Mrs Higgins Clark had the ability to create a timeless story and making it easy to read—no useless addition of big words. 

This story follows Nancy Harmon who harbours a huge secret and a bigger heartbreak. She moved, changed her name and tried to build a life for herself where nobody knew her. Except, someone does know the old her. And when history seems to be repeated itself, Nancy is distraught. 

I’ve read a lot of Mary Higgins Clark since this one and this one still sticks with me the most (this and two little girls in blue but I'll talk about that one later). 

#Book recommendations #Mary Higgins Clark #Mary Higgins Clark - Where are the children #Where are the children

[crepuscule-pourpre]

#Death Wears a Beauty Mask and Other Stories #autre #derniere lecture #mary higgins clark #meurtre à cape cod

[quoteablebooks]

Genre: Fiction, Adult, Mystery Thriller

Rating: 2 out of 5

Content Warning: Death of a parent, violence, gun violence, on page death, death, murder      

Summary:

Neeve Kearny may be the only person in New York worried about the disappearance of Ethel Lambston. Ethel, a bestselling author famous for her juicy exposés, is one of the best customers at Neeve's exclusive Madison Avenue boutique. But Ethel's ex-husband, her parasitical nephew, and the fashion moguls skewered in her latest article all have reason to be glad she's no longer around.

When Ethel Lambston is found with her throat cut, Neeve's memories of her mother's long-unsolved murder loom up once again. Now as an innocent witness in the Lambston investigation, Neeve is drawn into a new nightmare...a sinister labyrinth of greed and ambition that will lead her into mortal danger...

A stunning tale of murder, glamour and romance, While My Pretty One Sleeps is the most exciting novel yet from Mary Higgins Clark, America's undisputed master of suspense

*Opinions*

Sometimes you just need a mass-market paperback to cleanse your palate. Unfortunately, this is not one of Mary Higgins Clark’s best books and I felt extremely dissatisfied with the mystery, story, and characters. There were also certain things that were added to this novel that had me side-eyeing Clark pretty hard. At the end of the day, it didn’t feel like a mystery or a thriller, but like reading the script of a procedural without all the nuance and emotion that the actors would put into it when they put it on the screen. This is a two-star read and that is more for craft than the fact that I enjoyed my time with this novel. 

While My Pretty One Sleeps focuses on Neeve and Myles Kearny, Neeve owns a fashion boutique that caters to the higher end of town and her father Myles is the retired police commissioner of New York City and recovering from a heart attack. When one of Neeve’s most eccentric clients doesn’t pick up her order, Neeve starts to dig into if something has happened to the journalist Ethel Lambston. As Neeve attempts to confirm whether Ethel has left or if something has happened to her, she also learns that Ethel has learned a huge bombshell about the fashion industry and is about to publish a book about it. Suddenly, there are a number of potential motives for people to want Lambston to disappear.

My biggest issue with this novel is that there was no suspense for the reader. We know that Ethel is dead literally hundreds of pages before anyone else, besides the killer, does. While Neeve has a bad feeling about Ethel’s disappearance, she keeps getting talked out of it by her father, and everyone else she shares her fears. If the reader also didn’t know that she was dead, it wouldn’t have been so frustrating, but the “oh she’s probably just left” for that long is just grating. None of these characters are super likable or even that you are worried about what will happen to them. The Red Herring was so obvious that it was obviously not them, but we stayed with them for so long in this story. I also don’t think that there were enough clues to point to the actual killer, which makes the payoff seem pretty cheap.

Some more fine details that pulled me out of the story. The number of times that Neeve’s skin was described as “milk-white” started to veer into more than just a descriptor. Then there are all these individuals who wear super high-end clothes making extremely derogatory comments about the homeless in New York City. Then there was the anti-union sentiment that was always attached to the “bad” guys in the novel, but it is never challenged on the page. That, pared with the fact that the fact is made that both Neeve and Ethel vote Republican in a none political thriller was out of place and honestly, made me have a lot of questions about Clark. Don’t even get me started on the fact that the grand love story in this novel, the two of them met while one was fighting in World War II and the other was a TEN-YEAR-OLD CHILD. I will be here all day. The instant love between Jack and Neeve was so flat and they had no chemistry. An even smaller complaint, Neeve called her father by his first name. I don’t know a single adult who does that. 

Overall, it was an easy and quick read, but not very enjoyable for me. I have liked a number of other works by Clark, which made this even more disappointing. A two star read and better luck next time. 

*Content Warnings*

Death of a parent, violence, gun violence, on page death, death, murder

#While my pretty one sleeps #mary higgins clark #booklr #book review #2 out of 5 stars

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In Other Worlds (A. A. Attanasio) "It's about a species of brain-eating alien spiders called Zotl who take over and control people by attaching to the back of their skulls and burrowing into the pain centre of their brains."

The Cinderella Murder (Mary Higgins Clark & Alafair Burke) "Actress Madison Meyer is obsessed with fame, to the point it's rumoured she helped cover up her friend's murder or even killed her herself to get her role, and she still has the nerve to act like a diva on Under Suspicion's set even though she hasn't had any significant roles in a decade and is supposed appearing on the show to solve her friend's murder. Actor Keith Ratner was a playboy with a drinking problem when he started out, though he's genuinely managed to clean up his act, albeit by getting involved with a shifty megachurch, and some people still think he murdered his girlfriend. Televangelist Martin Collins is a money-hungry Control Freak who rules his congregation with an iron fist and uses their donations to fund personal luxuries, and that's the least of his misdeeds. Frank Parker is known for being a demanding director who mostly gets involved in Under Suspicion because he doesn't want people to boycott his movies thinking he murdered a 19-year-old college student, although he did prevent his wife from starring in a sleazy movie that left the replacement actress humiliated and has stayed married for ten years (quite a record for Hollywood). And at the centre of it all is the so-called Cinderella Murder, with a young aspiring actress on her way to an audition ending up strangled to death and the crime going unsolved for twenty years, with all kinds of salacious rumours surrounding the case."

#web poll #the web #poll #the magnus archives #leitner tournament #In Other Worlds #A. A. Attanasio #The Cinderella Murder #Mary Higgins Clark #Alafair Burke

[dontcallittimetravel]

Happy birthday to Roy Higgins and Joe Clark, proud parents of Mary Higgins Clark

#happybirthday #roy higgins #joe clark #mary higgins clark

[bargainsleuthbooks]

Where are the Children Now? by Mary Higgins Clark and Alafair Burke #NewBooks #Mystery #BookReview

The long awaited sequel to #MaryHigginsClark blockbuster book #Wherearethechildren has been released by #AlafairBurke. #Wherearethechildrennow is worthy of the queen of suspense's legacy. #bookreview #newbooks #april2023books #simonandschuster

Of the fifty-six bestsellers the “Queen of Suspense” Mary Higgins Clark published in her lifetime, Where Are the Children? was her biggest, selling millions of copies and forever transforming the genre of suspense fiction. In that story, a young California mother named Nancy Harmon was convicted of murdering her two children. Though released on a technicality, she was abandoned by her husband and…

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