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Where Are the Children Now? by Mary Higgins Clark, Alafair Burke
4.0
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Knowing this book was being released, I went back and read and reviewed Where Are the Children? by Mary Higgins Clark . I found the book dated, but could see how it created the modern suspense novel at the same time.
Forty years has passed, and Melissa is a lawyer and podcaster who marries a man with a 3-year-old girl ten months after meeting him. I found this to be wholly unbelievable. A woman so learned and with a family history like hers doesn’t look into her husband’s prior life. His first wife had an accidental death and she never questions it. He runs a company, but she knows little about it. But, as they say, love is blind, and she adores his daughter, Riley, as much as she adores her new husband.
When Melissa’s stepdaughter goes missing, she becomes a prime suspect because of her family’s past and her present as a mystery-solving podcaster. If you like true crime podcasts, this book will have a special appeal to the reader. For suspense and thriller fans, you’ll enjoy all the twists and turns this story takes. The clues come fast and furious, yet I found myself able to keep up. In fact, I’ve read enough of these sorts of books that I guessed the kidnappers right away, yet I still enjoyed the literary ride to get there.
Alafair Burke has done a great job capturing the suspense and mystery of a class Mary Higgins Clark novel. Well done!
Knowing this book was being released, I went back and read and reviewed Where Are the Children? by Mary Higgins Clark . I found the book dated, but could see how it created the modern suspense novel at the same time.
Forty years has passed, and Melissa is a lawyer and podcaster who marries a man with a 3-year-old girl ten months after meeting him. I found this to be wholly unbelievable. A woman so learned and with a family history like hers doesn’t look into her husband’s prior life. His first wife had an accidental death and she never questions it. He runs a company, but she knows little about it. But, as they say, love is blind, and she adores his daughter, Riley, as much as she adores her new husband.
When Melissa’s stepdaughter goes missing, she becomes a prime suspect because of her family’s past and her present as a mystery-solving podcaster. If you like true crime podcasts, this book will have a special appeal to the reader. For suspense and thriller fans, you’ll enjoy all the twists and turns this story takes. The clues come fast and furious, yet I found myself able to keep up. In fact, I’ve read enough of these sorts of books that I guessed the kidnappers right away, yet I still enjoyed the literary ride to get there.
Alafair Burke has done a great job capturing the suspense and mystery of a class Mary Higgins Clark novel. Well done!