Pat is young (27), a successful news reporter, however she is so boring and lacks any personality. Pat Traymore in Stillwatch is no exception. There is something about MHC's main characters that I would never be friends with them in really life. Furthermore, I saw several grammatical errors in the book that were distracting and put me off. Several convenient coincidences in the story show that at this early stage of her writing career, Clark, as a writer, hadn't learned to avoid obvious and manipulative deus ex machina. Well, right off, as a reader of a mystery writer you are suspicious of that notion of loving parents involved in something so horrendous, right? Well, the plot moves with a steady pace as Pat is assigned to make a documentary on one Senator Abigail Jennings, a prospect to fill a vacancy as Vice President of the U.S. Her parents had died violent deaths there when she was a child-ostensibly, a murder-suicide. Pat Traymore is the protagonist, a newswoman with a new job in Washington D.C. I don't think I had ever read Mary Higgins Clark before. Subsequently, my wife bought this to read on her Kindle, so I decided to read it, too.

My wife and a friend, Janice, from our third-Monday book club (we meet at Barnes and Noble) went to see Mary Higgins Clark and her daughter, Carol, speak at the high school recently. It was a very enjoyable experience, just what I needed right now. It is also easier to keep a secret or hide a crime. I read a lot of modern thrillers and detective stories and I think I'm forgetting how the simple fact that you can't google everything or get someone on a cell phone every time you want raises the stakes and puts the characters in even greater danger. It was also nice to read something old-school, from a time when cell phones and the Internet did not exist yet. There are quite a few issues here that seem rather farfetched. Even if I also understand people who did not like this story. And although I was able to predict some of these answers, the whole picture turned out to be much more complex and very satisfying. I liked how complicated and multi-dimensional truth ultimately turns out to be. It all adds up to a truly great story that keeps you on the edge of your seat. Plus a bit of romantic turmoil in Pat's life. And the questionable past of the Senator, who is well on her way to becoming the first woman in history as a vice president of the United States. Pat, hiding her true identity while trying to unravel a tragic mystery from her childhood. An unexplained crime from years ago that concerns Pat, the main character. It's been a long time since I read Mary Higgins Clark's book, but I think I should read another one soon.

Stillwatch by mary higgins clark