Nighttime Is My Time, Mary Higgins Clark
Nighttime Is My Time, Mary Higgins Clark
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Nighttime Is My Time

Author: Mary Higgins Clark

Narrator: Jan Maxwell

Unabridged: 9 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/01/2008


Synopsis

From the "Queen of Suspense," Mary Higgins Clark, comes a riveting tale of suspense, secrets, and revenge.

Historian Jean Sheridan returns to Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, excited about her twenty-year high-school reunion at Stonecroft Academy. But a dear friend of hers soon becomes the fifth woman in the class to meet a sudden, mysterious end. Then Jean receives a taunting fax about a child she gave up for adoption, whose existence she had kept a secret but whose life may now be in danger. For present at the reunion is The Owl, a murderer on a mission of vengeance against women who once humiliated him...and Jean is his final intended victim.

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

AudiobooksNow review by merri on 2007-06-14 00:08:06

i remember a time when i used to devour all of her books. this brought me back to then... a fast paced, easy but entertaining mystery, a definite must read. a woman goes back to her high school reunion, and there is someone there (the Owl) who has been killing off the women who used to make fun of him back then, over the whole span of the 20 years. we have to find out who it is.... dum dum dum.....

Goodreads review by Daniella on January 03, 2016

Sure, I love red herrings in my mystery novels. Who doesn't? But this was just ridiculous. Too many red herrings in this one; everything felt chaotic and topsy-turvy. Plus, Jean, the protagonist, was so stupid she deserved to die. Ugh. I have so much hate for her character.......more

Goodreads review by Razvan on December 14, 2024

Unexpectedly good, as the novel rises to the best from Agatha Christie's stories. The plot is seductive, the rhythm is dense and alert, with few dead times and no unnecessary little flowers, the characters are well-crafted and you don't know ( at least I was rather surprised) who's the murderer unti......more

Goodreads review by debbicat *made of stardust* on March 09, 2016

I don't think I am a Mary Higgins Clark kind of reader. It was okay, but somewhat boring. I could barely tolerate it at times on my walk. If it hadn't been for the fact that I liked the narrator so much, I likely would have abandoned it long before the last half of the book. Sorry. It is what it is.......more

Goodreads review by Rachel on July 30, 2008

I needed something to read while we waited for a plane, so I bought this at a bookstore in the airport. Overall, I found the story a bit shallow. The author's efforts to keep the murder's name hidden from the reader, in my opinion, were painfully forced. Her efforts to build suspense up until the fi......more

Goodreads review by Roxie on October 14, 2020

Gotta love a good Mystery by this Queen of Suspence......more