Before I Say GoodBye, Mary Higgins Clark
Before I Say GoodBye, Mary Higgins Clark
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Before I Say Good-Bye

Author: Mary Higgins Clark

Narrator: Jan Maxwell

Abridged: 4 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/01/2000


Synopsis

A young woman probing into the mysterious circumstances of her husband's death receives a message from a medium claiming to be his channel in Mary Higgins Clark's #1 bestselling thriller, Before I Say Goodbye.

When Nell MacDermott learns that her husband, architect Adam Cauliff, and three of his business associates have died in an explosion of his new cabin cruiser, she is not only devastated but wracked with guilt. The last time she saw Adam, they had a bitter quarrel over her plan to run for the congressional seat long held by her grandfather; she had told him not to come home.

As the investigation into the boat's explosion proceeds, Nell learns that it was not an accident but a bomb. Despite her skepticism, Nell is swayed by her great-aunt Gert, a believer in psychic powers, to see a medium claiming to be Adam's channel.

While trying to unravel the threads of Adam's past and his violent end, Nell consults the medium, who transmits messages to her with instructions from Adam. The story reaches a powerful climax in Nell's final encounter with the medium, in which she learns the truth about the explosion—truth she can't be allowed to live and tell.

About Mary Higgins Clark

Suspense author, Mary Higgins Clark has had 51 novels that have been bestsellers in the United States and many other countries, all of which remain in print through 2015. It was through necessity that her career blossomed, but she had always had writing talent and aspirations.

Clark followed a dream in her early career and took time out to be a(at that time) stewardess for PanAm so she could see the world. Just before beginning her exciting new job.....being paid $5 less per week than her secretarial job.......she met William Clark who was so smitten with her that he proposed that she stay in the job for one year, then marry him at the end of that year. And they did just that. The Clarks had five children, and sadly her husband passed away from an extended bout of heart problems in 1964. Also, very sadly, his mother was at his bedside when he died, and she too passed away that very same night.

So, as stated before, out of necessity, Higgins Clark seriously launched her career of writing 51suspense novels with some being adapted to film. She is known as the "Queen of Suspense", she has the ability to serve as a master plotter to slowly create tension for the reader, while giving the appearance that everyone is guilty. Her books feature strong, independent women characters who are the heroines, who are noted for making sensible decisions. Readers tend to identify with these characters as more ordinary people than most novel heroines. Higgins Carter's novels are for adult readers, but because she does not include explicit sex or violence in them, they are also popular with children as young as twelve. Simon & Schuster have published all of Higgins Clark's novels, signed her to a $64 million , four book contract in 1990, and have funded the Mary Higgins Clark Award given to new authors of suspense novels.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Luffy Sempai on October 28, 2016

Quite a disappointment after the heady rush that Mary Higgins Clark's books brought to me. This book of hers, Before I say Good-Bye, is more like Jeffrey Archer rather than the style of prose that Mary herself specialized in. Also Mary's daughter, Carol Higgins Clark, has penned the type of books th......more

Goodreads review by Jerry on October 13, 2021

Growing up in a Christian home, I always heard that so-called psychic powers were nonsense. Back in the day, my mom and I knew a lady who went to see a psychic; said acquaintance was amazed that the psychic knew one of her daughter's personality traits just by hearing her name and birthdate. My mom,......more

Goodreads review by Kelly (Maybedog) on January 17, 2009

I think this was supposed to be a thriller. Not in the least bit thrilling, though. Slow moving, predictable and boring, with two dimensional characters. Despite the main protagonist being female, the women were unintelligent, gullible and naive. Almost all wrapped their lives around men. I can't be......more

Goodreads review by J on December 20, 2020

Finalmente me acabó gustando y sorprendiendo. un libro más de la gran Mary Higgins Clark, que ahora que recuerdo ya voy para un año de leer sus libros, y ya ha sido un buen recorrido, aunque aún me falta bastante, y pienso seguir. Del asunto paranormal acabó teniendo un giro interesante que le dio ot......more

Goodreads review by Mareli on February 01, 2020

RIP Mary Higgins Clark. A sad day for the literary world of murder and suspense. Thankfully her books will live forever. ♥️......more