Showing results by author "Mary Clark" in All Categories

Piper Donovan never imagined that decorating wedding cakes could be so dangerous! A struggling actress with no immediate prospects and a recently broken engagement, Piper moves back in with her parents to take stock of her life. She steps tentatively into the family bakery business and finds herself agreeing to create a wedding cake for the acclaimed star of a daytime television drama. But soon someone close to the bride-to-be is horribly murdered.

It’s the dead of winter and struggling actress and wedding-cake decorator Piper Donovan is thrilled to be in warm and romantic Sarasota, Florida, enjoying the powdery white beaches and golden sunsets over the Gulf of Mexico. She and her family are there to celebrate her beloved cousin’s wedding. Not only is Piper creating the wedding cake, she’s also the maid of honor. But a cloud seems to hover over the whole affair. Shortly after a bridesmaid mysteriously disappears, a kindly neighbor’s car is run off the road and a prospective witness, an innocent Amish teenager, is threatened to keep silent. Then a body is found....

Eliza Blake, host of the top-rated KEY News morning show, has witnessed tragedy and danger in her career. But nothing the accomplished professional has experienced has prepared her for when her seven-year-old daughter, Janie, is snatched from summer camp.

New York Times bestselling author Mary Jane Clark whips up a savory and suspenseful confection, filled with murder, mystery, history, and voodoo, in which Piper Donovan must unmask a devious killer striking in New Orleans' legendary French Quarter. Aspiring actress and wedding-cake decorator Piper Donovan has barely arrived in New Orleans to perfect her pastry skills at the renowned French Quarter bakery Boulangerie Bertrand when a ghastly murder rocks the magical city. Intrigued by the case, Piper can't help but look for the "Hoodoo Killer" among the faces around her.

In I'll Walk Alone, Alexandra "Zan" Moreland, a gifted, beautiful interior designer on the threshold of a successful Manhattan career, is terrified to discover that somebody is not only using her credit cards and manipulating her financial accounts to bankrupt her and destroy her reputation, but may also be impersonating her in a scheme that may involve the much more brutal crimes of kidnapping and murder.

In The Shadow of Your Smile, worldwide best-selling author Mary Higgins Clark weaves a spellbinding thriller revolving around a long-held family secret that threatens to emerge and take the life of an unsuspecting heiress.

Eine nächtliche Explosion in der Möbelfabrik der Familie Connelly hat einen Millionenschaden angerichtet. Handelt es sich um infamen Versicherungsbetrug? Die Tochter des Eigentümers, Kate Connelly, wird schwer verletzt aus den Trümmern gerettet, ist aber unfähig, eine Aussage zu machen. Da die Firma nachweislich Verluste schrieb, muss Kates Schwester Hannah alles daran setzen, den Ruf der Familie zu retten. Dann wird in den Trümmern der Fabrik die Leiche einer jungen Frau geborgen, die vor über zwanzig Jahren spurlos verschwand. Und als eine weitere Tote auftaucht, ist endgültig klar, dass die Möbelfabrik im Zentrum eines monströsen Verbrechens steht. Doch es gibt nur eine einzige Person, die das schreckliche Geheimnis aufklären könnte, das hinter all den Untaten steckt: die schwer verletzte Kate. Sie ringt mit dem Tod. Und es gibt jemanden, der alles daran setzt, dass sie diesen Kampf verliert.

Die Innenarchitektin Lane Harmon, alleinerziehende Mutter der fün fjhrigen Katie, erhält einen großen neuen Auftrag: Sie soll das Stadthaus der Bennetts neu ausstatten. Diese Familie hat - wie Lane bald herausfindet - eine dunkle Geschichte: Der Senior, Peter, verschwand vor zwei Jahren bei einem Segelausflug spurlos - und nur wenig später kam heraus, dass aus dem von ihm gemanagten Fonds fünf Milliarden Dollar veruntreut wurden. War es Selbstmord? Oder hat er sein Verschwinden inszeniert? Nur seine Familie glaubt fest an seine Unschuld. Und Lane ist zusehends hin- und hergerissen, denn sie hat sich in den attraktiven Sohn des Hauses verliebt. Sie ahnt nicht, wie sehr sie sich und ihre kleine Tochter dadurch in Gefahr bringt.

Written with warmth, yet set against a background of menace and thrilling suspense, Silent Night is about courage in the face of adversity, and faith renewed and faith rewarded.It is Mary Higgins Clark's Christmas gift for listeners of all seasons.

It has been ten years since 21-year-old Kevin MacKenzie, Jr. ("Mac"), has been missing. A Columbia University senior, about to graduate and already enrolled in Duke University Law School, he walked out of his room in Manhattan's Upper West Side without a word to his college roommate and has never been seen again. However, he does make three ritual phone calls to his mother every year: on her birthday, on his birthday, and on Mother's Day.

Ellie Cavanaugh ist außer sich, als der Mörder ihrer Schwester vorzeitig aus dem Gefängnis entlassen wird...

Dein Erbe ist der Tod ... Der Bibelforscher Jonathan Lyons glaubt, eine der bedeutsamsten Schriften überhaupt gefunden zu haben: einen Brief Jesu von Nazarets...

Piper Donovan accepts when the owner of Elysium, an exclusive spa and plastic surgery center, offers her an all-expenses-paid trip to Los Angeles to create a dazzling and unique wedding cake. The job also gives Piper the time and distance she needs to sort out her feelings for handsome FBI agent Jack Lombardi. But no sooner does Piper arrive than a guest is brutally murdered in one of the private bungalows.

At the heart of Mary Higgins Clark's stunning new novel of suspense is a brutal murder: that of Gary Lasch, a respected and successful young Greenwich, Connecticut, doctor and hospital and HMO head. He was found dead at his desk at home, his skull crushed by a blow with a Remington bronze sculpture, a prized piece from his art collection. The news strikes Greenwich society like a thunderbolt - as does the news that Molly Carpenter Lasch, the doctor's young wife, has been arrested for her husband's murder.

Olivia Morrow, hochbetagt und kränkelnd, steckt in einem großen Dilemma. Es gibt Pläne, ihre verstorbene Cousine Catherine, eine...

Mary Higgins Clark takes you deep into the mysteries of the human mind, where memories may be the most dangerous things of all. Kay Lansing grew up in Englewood, New Jersey, daughter of the landscaper to the wealthy and powerful Carrington family. One day, accompanying her father to work, six-year-old Kay overhears a quarrel between a man and a woman that ends with the man's caustic response: "I heard that song before."

Strongly influenced by the gentility and generosity of spirit of the older brother from whom he eventually inherits his beloved Mount Vernon, the young George Washington matures into a devoted and able public servant in both the military and political arenas. Though marked by tragedies and disappointments, his domestic life offers him well-earned solace and satisfaction, especially after his marriage to the young widow, Martha "Patsy" Custis.

KEY News correspondent Diane Mayfield has to give up her vacation and bring her children and her sister to the New Jersey shore town of Ocean Grove to investigate a story. "Girls Who Cry Wolf" is the topic for the season premiere of "Hourglass," television's premiere news magazine show. Diane lands an exclusive interview with a troubled young woman whose tale of being abducted and held against her will for three terrifying days and nights had been disbelieved by the authorities.

Zwanzig Jahre ist es her, dass die talentierte Jungschauspielerin Susan Dempsey abends zum Vorsprechen aufbrach - aber nie ankam. Am nächsten Tag wird sie ermordet im Park gefunden, mit nur noch einem Schuh an den Füßen. Zu den Verdächtigen gehören einflussreiche Hollywoodgrößen, aber der Mordfall wird nie aufgeklärt. Bis Laurie Moran, die als TV-Journalistin auf Cold Cases spezialisiert ist, sich des Falls annimmt - und sie sich zur Zielscheibe des Täters macht.

Eliza Blake, veteran of the morning show and now the anchor of the KEY Evening Headlines is suddenly thrust into the spotlight when Constance Young, the undisputed star of morning television, is found at the bottom of her swimming pool. Eliza is committed to finding out who wanted Constance out of the way, and why.