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A young woman is haunted by two murders that are closely linked -- despite the 110 years that separate them.

Following the breakup of her marriage and her pursuit by an obsessed stalker, criminal defense attorney Emily Graham accepts an offer to work in a major Manhattan law firm. Feeling a need for roots, she buys her ancestral home in New Jersey, which her family sold in 1892, after the disappearance of young Madeline Shapley, one of Emily's forebears.

In the picturesque village of Branscombe, New Hampshire, the townsfolk are all pitching in to prepare for the first (and many hope, annual) Festival of Joy. The night before the festival begins, a group of employees at the local market learn that they have won $160 million in the lottery. One of their co-workers, Duncan, decided at the last minute, on the advice of a pair of crooks masquerading as financial advisers, not to play. Then he goes missing.

Lovely young Kay Crandall has come back for the reunion of a high school where she once taught. But Kay cannot guess that the happy occasion is about to turn into a nightmare - as she falls into the hands of a madman who wants to make her into his wife - and his victim. From The Anastasia Syndrome, Mary Higgins Clark's best-selling collection of short fiction, Terror Stalks the Class Reunion is a riveting, unabridged audio production.

Two years after Nina Peterson's brutal murder, her husband, Steve, is still fighting to bring the killer to justice. Their six-year-old son, Neil, remains haunted by the terrible vision of the murderer's hands wrapped around his mother's throat. And Sharon Martin, who has grown to love both Steve and Neil, wishes only to ease their pain and suffering. But as 19-year-old Ronald Thompson sits wrongly convicted on the eve of his execution, a stranger is still watching -- still plotting as he did before, living for the moment when he can kill and kill again....

In her long career as America's most beloved suspense writer, Mary Higgins Clark's The Lost Years is her most astonishing and dramatic work to date. At its center is a discovery that, if authenticated, may be the most revered document in human history - the holiest of the holy - and certainly the most coveted and valuable object in the world.

Take a crime-filled tour of Manhattan with this collection of all-new mystery stories compiled and edited by Mary Higgins Clark - with contributions by Lee Child, Jeffrey Deaver, Ben H. Winters, and others.

Contrairement à l'ancien employé qui l'accompagnait, Kate a réussi à échapper aux flammes qui ont ravagé une nuit la manufacture familiale de copies de meubles anciens et le bâtiment attenant où étaient stockées de précieuses antiquités. La jeune femme gît inconsciente et grièvement brûlée sur un lit d'hôpital. Pour la police qui enquête sur l'étrange explosion à l'origine de l'incendie, elle n'en est pas moins suspecte.

Don't toss out the cake and candles just yet. Philip Roth, who, among other notable achievements, changed the way Americans laugh about masturbation, celebrates his birthday on March 19th. Check out: I Married a Communist and Operation Shylock.

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.

In the gripping new novel from America's queen of suspense, a young woman is haunted by two murders that are closely linked - despite the one hundred and ten years that separate them. Browse more from Mary Higgins Clark.

Jean Sheridan, a college dean and prominent historian, sets out to her hometown to attend the 20-year reunion of Stonecroft Academy alumni, where she is to be honored along with six other members of her class. There is something uneasy in the air: one woman in the group about to be feted, Alison Kendall, a beautiful, high-powered Hollywood agent, drowned in her pool during an early-morning swim. Alison is the fifth woman in the class whose life has come to a sudden, mysterious end.

Solo desea huir de la humillante escena del arresto de su prometido la víspera de su boda. Celia Kilbride, experta en joyas, acepta un puesto de trabajo en el transatlántico Queen Charlotte para escapar de la atención pública. Allí conoce a Lady Emily Haywood, de ochenta y seis años, dueña de un collar de esmeraldas de incalculable valor que desea donar a un museo tras el crucero.

When Janice steps off the plane in New York City with her new husband, Mike, she can barely contain her excitement knowing Alexandra is waiting at the gate. It's been nearly a year since Janice saw her glamorous, fashion model older sister, whose busy workload even kept her from attending Janice and Mike's wedding.

Charming, insightful and immensely entertaining in its unique presentation of one of America's legendary figures, Mount Vernon Love Story, by famed suspense writer Mary Higgins Clark, shows the reader the man behind the legend, a man of flesh, blood and passion, and in the author's skilled hands, the story and the man come fully and dramatically alive.

Mary Higgins Clark's interest in George Washington was first sparked by a radio series she was writing in the 1960s, called "Portrait of a Patriot."

Nicholas Spencer, charismatic head of the medical research company Gen-Stone, involved in the development of an anticancer vaccine, suddenly disappears. Early results of the vaccine seemed highly promising. Yet, coinciding with Spencer's disappearance is news that the FDA is denying approval.

Några dagar innan reportern Patricia Traymore ska göra ett inslag om en kvinnlig senator tar hon emot ett mycket underligt telefonsamtal. En okänd röst mumlar snabbt fram att Patricia inte får komma till Washington, att hon inte får göra ett program om senator Jennings och att hon absolut inte får bo i sitt gamla barndomshem. Patricia avfärdar samtalet som nonsens men när hon anländer till huvudstaden och sitt gamla hem vaknar skräcken till liv i henne. Vad var det egentligen som hände när hon var barn? Vem var det som ringde?

Murder for Love: Murder for Women is a collection of wickedly witty crime-of-passion short stories by some of the best women writers inside and out of the mystery field.

Ernie and Wilma Bean have finally made it! Their lucky number has won the special Christmas lottery. Wilma is out of town, though, and it's tough to keep news like that a secret for too long. It couldn't hurt to celebrate a little with Loretta Thistlebottom, could it? In another story, the country cabin where Mike spent so many idyllic summers with his grandmother ought to be the perfect place for his wife, Laurie, to recover from the nightmares of her childhood. But now that Mike and Laurie have arrived, what could be causing such an ominous feeling to come over both of them?

Nelle McDermott mister pludselig sin mand, Adam, da deres lystyacht eksploderer i New Yorks havn. Hun er dybt ulykkelig over tabet af sin elskede og plaget af skyldfølelse, for den sidste gang hun så Adam, havde de et voldsomt skænderi, og hun bad ham om ikke at komme hjem igen. Efterforskningen viser, at nogen havde anbragt en bombe om bord, og Nell, der tidligere har flirtet med den spirituelle verden, opsøger en clairvoyant for at komme i kontakt med Adam. Beskeden fra Adam er foruroligende og får Nell til at tvivle på deres kærlige forhold. Men er beskeden ægte?

Sladrebladsjournalisten Ethel Lambston findes myrdet. Hun var elsket af få og frygtet af mange, og lige inden sin død nåede hun at fortælle omverdenen, at hun ville afsløre en række yderst pinlige skandaler inden for New Yorks modeverden. Nerve Kearney, datter af byens tidligere politidirektør, drages ind i efterforskningen af sagen. Det viser sig, at mindst tre mænd har haft god grund til at ønske Ethel Lambston død.