A review by mhverney
The Lost Years by Mary Higgins Clark

2.0

My first Mary Higgins Clark’s novel and I am not impressed. The premise is amazing - the only letter Christ ever wrote, not seen since the Middle Ages reappears and the man who found it is murdered. That alone is worth two stars but it is infuriating what a poor job the author makes of such a great premise. The plot itself is pretty tight, I was not sure until the end who had committed the murder. But the rest is so poor. The woman who is supposed to be the heroin, Mariah, is such a douche and annoyed me so much that I wanted her to get hurt. The other characters are equally unidimensional. And the writing is incredibly clunky - in particular the heavy reliance on internal dialogue to go through big chunks of back story. I hear her earlier works are better, but not sure I’ll give this author another try.