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The author whose phenomenal blockbusters have sold more than 25 million copies in the U.S. writes a relentlessly terrifying novel about a reporter dragged into her family's hidden past--a chilling web of secrets and betrayals where nothing is as it seems, and the truth may be too devastating to pursue. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Author Notes
Mary Higgins Clark was born in the Bronx, New York on December 24, 1927. After graduating from high school and before she got married, she worked as a secretary, a copy editor, and an airline stewardess. She supplemented the family's income by writing short stories. After her husband died in 1964, leaving her with five children, she worked for many years writing four-minute radio scripts before turning to novels. Her debut novel, Aspire to the Heavens, which is a fictionalized account of the life of George Washington, did not sell well. She decided to focus on writing mystery/suspense novels and in 1975 Where Are the Children? was published. She received a B.A. in philosophy from Fordham University in 1979.
Her other works include While My Pretty One Sleeps, Let Me Call You Sweetheart, Moonlight Becomes You, Pretend You Don't See Her, No Place Like Home, The Lost Years, The Melody Lingers On, As Time Goes By and Kiss the Girls and Make Them Cry. She is the author of the Alvirah and Willy series, which began with Weep No More, My Lady. She is also the co-author, with her daughter Carol Higgins Clark, of several holiday crossover books including Deck the Halls, He Sees You When You're Sleeping, Santa Cruise, The Christmas Thief, and Dashing Through the Snow. She writes the Under Suspicion series with Alafair Burke. In 2001, Kitchen Privileges: A Memoir was published. She received numerous honors including the Grand Prix de Literature of France in 1980), the Horatio Alger Award in 1997, the Gold Medal of Honor from the American-Irish Historical Society, the Spirit of Achievement Award from Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University the first Reader's Digest Author of the Year Award 2002 and the Christopher Life Achievement Award in 2003.
Many of her titles have made the best sellers list. Her recent books include All By Myself, Alone, I've Got My Eyes On You, and You Don't Own Me.
Bestselling suspense novelist, Mary Higgins Clark died on January 31, 2020 at the age of 92.
(Bowker Author Biography)
Reviews (5)
Publisher's Weekly Review
Clark always has a staunch heroine and a topical story to tell. This time her star is Meghan Collins, a spunky TV reporter who is aghast when, on a hospital assignment, she finds a murdered girl who is her double. The topicality involves a clinic that offers ``assisted reproduction,'' which enables women to conceive through in-vitro fertilization. A mysterious Romanian who tends the embryos is murdered, and it is discovered she was unqualified for the job. Why then did a prestigious placement firm, in which Meghan's beloved father Edwin was a partner, recommend her for it? And where is Edwin? Apparently a victim of a spectacular highway accident, there are odd indications he is still alive. And what role does obsessive parking attendant Bernie Heffernan, a creepy Peeping Tom, play in it all? To call Clark's latest plot complicated is an understatement. As usual, however, it moves swiftly, painlessly and forgettably to a predictably upbeat conclusion, in which Meghan snags an erstwhile admirer she feared she had lost. Clark's formula, to place attractive women in danger and have their own pluck and skill resolve the outcome, attracts a large readership, though the merely workmanlike writing, four-square characterization and needlessly knotty plot make I'll Be Seeing You a harder sell than usual. Literary Guild main selection and Reader's Digest Condensed Book selection. (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Booklist Review
It's only fitting that duplicity be the theme of the tale that raises the number of Clark's novels to double digits. In it, our heroine is Meghan Collins, a young reporter who's just landed a coveted spot on network news, but her satisfaction is tempered by sadness and worry as the investigation into her father's puzzling death flounders in uncertainty. It seemed as though Collins was swept into the Hudson River in a freak accident on the Tappan Zee bridge, but there's no trace of car wreckage and no body. The insurance company won't pay up, and Meghan's grief-stricken mother, who believes she is entitled to double indemnity, is afraid that she'll loose her cherished Connecticut inn if funds aren't forthcoming. Then Meghan has a jolting experience while covering a news story at a Manhattan hospital. An unidentified young woman is rushed in, dying from a knife wound to the heart, and--there's not other way to put it--she's a dead ringer for Meghan. Who is she? Is Collins dead or alive? As Meghan turns sleuth, she uncovers some highly unethical procedures at a fertility clinic involving in vitro fertilization and--what else?--identical twins. Then she discovers evidence of her father's double life and we realize that many characters have dual identities and hidden motives. Sleek and substantial, this classy thriller will make the lists. (Reviewed Apr. 15, 1993)0671673661Donna Seaman
School Library Journal Review
YA-First-time readers and longtime fans will find Clark's new book a fast-paced, intricately woven tale of suspense and intrigue. Meghan Collins, newly hired TV reporter, makes a startling discovery while on assignment at a large metropolitan hospital. An unidentified young woman dying of a knife wound is rushed into the emergency ward, and Meghan finds herself staring down at a person who could be her double. She is thrust into an investigation that not only involves finding out the identity of the dead woman, but also uncovering the details of her father's puzzling death 10 months earlier. No trace of his body or car was ever found. To complicate things further, Meghan's next assignment reveals some questionable procedures at a fertility clinic in regard to in vitro fertilization of identical twins. Clark masterfully fits all the pieces together, delivering an expertly written, gripping mystery that will appeal to YAs.-Nancy Bard, Thomas Jefferson Sci-Tech, Fairfax County, VA (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Kirkus Review
Welcome back to Clarkland, where the menace to young womanhood is piled on as thick as whipped cream, and where, this time, a TV reporter's investigation of a nefarious fertility clinic--and of her own family--is provoked by the street murder of a woman who looks like her identical twin. Meghan Collins's routine story on the Manning Clinic's in-vitro fertilization program turns nightmarish when clinic embryologist Helene Petrovic is shot dead--and then turns out to be not a doctor after all, but a cosmetologist (!) who may have mislabeled dozens of fertilized embryos that have now been implanted in mothers who think they're about to have their own biological children. Meanwhile, that unidentified body, who sure does look like Meghan, turns out to be her half-sister, and the suspected killer none other than Meghan's father Edwin, missing and presumed dead since his car supposedly plunged over the side of the Tappan Zee Bridge nine months ago. Worse, the police have linked Edwin to the Petrovic killing too, since his headhunting agency recommended Petrovic to the Manning Clinic. As Meghan uses her enforced time off from the Manning Clinic story to track down the second family Edwin kept in Arizona--and, she hopes, to establish his death and clear his name despite repeated indications that he's still alive--she's threatened by the likes of (1) Victor Orsini, the headhunting-agency associate who took a phone call from Edwin moments before the bridge accident; (2) Dr. Henry Williams, a fertility specialist who knows where Petrovic got the unexpectedly big estate she's left to the Manning Clinic, and what's become of her inconvenient Rumanian niece; and--just for good measure--(3) generic loony Bernie Heffernan, who's obsessed with following Meghan and videotaping her. Clark's customary mastery of pace slackens as she marks time, especially during Act Three, while you wait hopefully for all these plots to come together. They don't. But nobody will care. (Literary Guild Triple Selection for July)
Library Journal Review
Clark specializes in mysteries with plucky heroines who manage to save themselves from danger by courage and ingenuity. Meghan Collins is a youthful television newscaster who is at the beginning of a promising career in video journalism. Her boss has just begun to assign her to important stories when her world crashes around her. First, her beloved father is killed in a highway disaster-or was he? His body and car have never been found, and the insurance company refuses to pay without proof. Then, on a routine assignment at a local hospital, Meghan sees a girl who is her virtual twin, fatally wounded in an apparent random attack. The intertwined plot lines finally merge for a happy ending, as in all Clark's writings. Kate Skinner does a masterful narrating job, adding greatly to the excitement of the story. Recommended for adult fiction collections.-Nancy Reed, McCracken Cty. P.L., Paducah, KY (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
Excerpts
Excerpts
Chapter One Meghan Collins stood somewhat aside from the cluster of other journalists in Emergency at Manhattan's Roosevelt Hospital. Minutes before, a retired United States senator had been mugged on Central Park West and rushed here. The media were milling around, awaiting word of his condition. Meghan lowered her heavy tote bag to the floor. The wireless mike, cellular telephone and notebooks were causing the strap to dig into her shoulder blade. She leaned against the wall and closed her eyes for a moment's rest. All the reporters were tired. They'd been in court since early afternoon, awaiting the verdict in a fraud trial. At nine o'clock, just as they were leaving, the call came to cover the mugging. It was now nearly 11. The crisp October day had turned into an overcast night that was an unwelcome promise of an early winter. It was a busy night in the hospital. Young parents carrying a bleeding toddler were waved past the registration desk through the door to the examination area. Bruised and shaken passengers of a car accident consoled each other as they awaited medical treatment. Outside, the persistent wail of arriving and departing ambulances added to the familiar cacophony of New York traffic. A hand touched Meghan's arm. "How's it going, Counselor?" It was Jack Murphy from Channel 5. His wife had gone through NYU Law School with Meghan. Unlike Meghan, however, Liz was practicing law. Meghan Collins, Juris Doctor, had worked for a Park Avenue law firm for six months, quit and got a job at WPCD radio as a news reporter. She'd been there three years now and for the past month had been borrowed regularly by PCD Channel 3, the television affiliate. "It's going okay, I guess," Meghan told him. Her beeper sounded. "Have dinner with us soon," Jack said "It's been too long." He rejoined his cameraman as she reached to get her cellular phone out of the bag. The call was from Ken Simon at the WPCD radio news desk. "Meg, the EMS scanner just picked up an ambulance heading for Roosevelt. Stabbing victim found on Fifty-sixth Street and Tenth. Watch for her." The ominous ee-aww sound of an approaching ambulance coincided with the staccato tapping of hurrying feet. The trauma team was heading for the Emergency entrance. Meg broke the connection, dropped the phone in her bag and followed the empty stretcher as it was wheeled out to the semicircular driveway. The ambulance screeched to a halt. Experienced hands rushed to assist in transferring the victim to the stretcher. An oxygen mask was clamped on her face. The sheet covering her slender body was bloodstained. Tangled chestnut hair accentuated the blue-tinged pallor of her neck. Meg rushed to the driver's door. "Any witnesses?" she asked quickly. "None came forward." The driver's face was lined and weary, his voice matter-of-fact. "There's an alley between two of those old tenements near Tenth. Looks like someone came up from behind, shoved her in it and stabbed her. Probably happened in a split second." "How bad is she?" "As bad as you can get." "Identification?" "None. She'd been robbed. Probably hit by some druggie who needed a fix." The stretcher was being wheeled in. Meghan darted back into the emergency room behind it. One of the reporters snapped, "The senator's doctor is about to give a statement." The media surged across the room to crowd around the desk. Meghan did not know what instinct kept her near the stretcher. She watched as the doctor about to start an IV removed the oxygen mask and lifted the victim's eyelids. "She's gone," he said. Meghan looked over a nurse's shoulder and stared down into the unseeing blue eyes of the dead young woman. She gasped as she took in those eyes, the broad forehead, arched brows, high cheekbones, straight nose, generous lips. It was as though she was looking into a mirror. She was looking at her own face. Copyright © 1993 by Mary Higgins Clark Excerpted from I'll Be Seeing You by Mary Higgins Clark All rights reserved by the original copyright owners. Excerpts are provided for display purposes only and may not be reproduced, reprinted or distributed without the written permission of the publisher.
