Mary Higgins Clark
Just take my heart
After famous actress Natalie Raines is found in her home, dying from a gunshot wound, police immediately suspect her theatrical agent and jealous soon-to-be-ex-husband, Gregg Aldrich. But no charges are brought against him until two years later, when a career criminal suddenly claims Aldrich had tried to hire him to kill her. The case is a plum assignment for attractive thirty-two-year-old assistant prosecutor Emily Wallace. She spends long hours preparing for the trial, and unaware of a seemingly well-meaning neighbor’s violent past, gives him a key to her home to care for her dog.
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Le roman de George et Martha
S’il n’avait pas rencontré la belle et courageuse Martha, George Washington serait-il devenu le héros de la guerre d’Indépendance et le premier président des Etats-Unis ? Derrière chaque grand homme se cache une femme qui l’aime et le soutient, et la jeune veuve ira jusqu’à traverser les lignes ennemies pour le rejoindre. Dans cette biographie romancée, qui est aussi son premier livre, elle dresse le magnifique portrait d’une femme méconnue, et révèle la profonde humanité d’un des Pères de l’Amérique. Ce Roman est une biographie romancée de l’écrivaine américaine Mary Higgins Clark, paru en 1968. Il s’agit du premier livre publié de l’auteur qui choisit de refondre l’ouvrage et d’en donner une nouvelle version en 2000.
Loves music , loves to dance
New York’s trendy magazines are a source of peril when a killer enacts a bizarre dance of death, using the personal ads to lure his victims… After college, best friends Erin Kelley and Darcy Scott move to the city to pursue exciting careers; Erin is a promising jewelry designer, Darcy finds success as a decorator. On a lark, Darcy persuades Erin to help their TV producer friend research the kinds of people who place personal ads. It seems like innocent fun…until Erin disappears. Erin’s body is found on an abandoned Manhattan pier — on one foot is her own shoe, on the other, a high-heeled dancing slipper. Soon after, startling communiques from the killer reveal that Erin is not the first victim of this « dancing shoe murderer. » And, if the killer has his way, she won’t be his last. Next on his death list is Darcy.
The shadow of your smile
At age eighty-two and in failing health, Olivia Morrow knows she has little time left. The last of her line, she faces a momentous choice: expose a long-held family secret, or take it with her to her grave. Olivia has in her possession letters from her deceased cousin Catherine, a nun, now being considered for beatification by the Catholic Church—the final step before sainthood. In her lifetime, Sister Catherine had founded seven hospitals for disabled children. Now the cure of a four-year-old boy dying of brain cancer is being attributed to her. After his case was pronounced medically hopeless, the boy’s desperate mother had organized a prayer crusade to Sister Catherine, leading to his miraculous recovery.