Mary Higgins Clark
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.
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I’ll walk alone
Two years after the day that her son, Matthew, was kidnapped in broad daylight in Central Park, Alexandra Moreland still finds herself torn between hope and despair. As no trace of Matthew was ever found, she has never been able to give him up for dead. But now, on what would have been Matthew’s fifth birthday, photos surface that seem to show Alexandra kidnapping her own child. Then, as her bank accounts are suddenly drained, and her reputation as a successful architect comes under immense pressure, Alexandra begins to suspect that someone is using her credit cards to steal her identity. But who would want to ruin her so completely? Hounded by the press, under investigation by the police, attacked by both her angry ex-husband and a vindictive business rival, Alexandra, sustained only by her belief that Matthew is still alive, sets out to discover who is behind this cruel hoax. Little does she realize that with every step she takes toward the truth, she is putting herself -and those she loves most – in mortal danger.
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Un cri dans la nuit, de Mary Higgins Clark
Un amour d’étourneau de Margarete Sigl Corbo et Diane Marie Barras
Le démon du passé
Pat Traymore, jeune et talentueuse journaliste de télévision, est sur le point d’attirer sur elle l’attention des milieux politiques les plus influents de Washington, grâce à une série d’émissions intitulées “Les femmes au gouvernement”. Séduisante, intelligente, interviewer-né, Pat est aussi profondément attachée à un membre important du Congrès. Apparemment, tout lui sourit sinon qu’elle s’est installée dans cette magnifique maison de Georgetown où un crime a détruit son enfance. Et, avant même son arrivée, quelqu’un, un inconnu, l’a menacée au téléphone, lui enjoignant de ne pas venir à Washington… Mary Higgins Clark transporte le lecteur dans le monde brillant de la capitale américaine – dîner de gala à la Maison Blanche, réceptions de Georgetown, la tribune du Sénat, la vie sous pression, le rythme exacerbé des coulisses de la télévision tout en échafaudant avec une maîtrise consommée un scénario envoûtant où s’affrontent deux ambitions féminines, provoquant une confrontation explosive qui les amènera chacune face à leur passé et au mystère qui les réunit.