“They are two holiday novels, Deck the Halls and He Sees You When You’re Sleeping.
“In Deck the Halls, we bring together our two sleuths: Alvirah Meehan, the sixtyish cleaning woman turned amateur detective after winning a forty-million-dollar New York State Lottery prize, and savvy young detective Regan Reilly, the protagonist of Carol’s novels.
“Regan Reilly, a private investigator based in Los Angeles, comes home to New York to spend Christmas with her father, funeral home director Luke Reilly, and mother, famous mystery writer Nora Regan Reilly, who is in the hospital with a broken leg. There, she finds her father at Nora’s bedside. ‘I’ve got a funeral to go to, a dentist appointment and then I’d better see about buying a tree,’ says Luke on leaving the hospital. Luke, however, doesn’t show up at the funeral or the dentist’s office. He and his driver, twenty-six-year-old Rosita Gonzalez, the mother of two small boys, have been kidnapped and the kidnappers are asking for a one-million-dollar ransom. While Alvirah and Regan try to track down the kidnappers, Luke and Rosita are being held captive by two inept yet dangerous kidnappers on a houseboat in the Hudson, while a fierce winter storm is gathering force.”
• What is the theme of He Sees You When You’re Sleeping?
“It revolves around a man sent back to earth to redeem himself. Sterling Brooks had been cooling his heels for forty-six years in the Celestial Waiting Room. When, at last, he is summoned before the Heavenly Council, he is found wanting for admission through the heavenly gates: In his lifetime, he had never shown compassion. But now he would be given another chance.
“Sterling finds himself at New York’s Rockefeller Center, where a little girl, Marissa, an outstanding skater, catches his eye. When he looks at her more closely, he sees she is crying. She may be the one I’ve been sent here for, Sterling realizes, and decides to find out what is troubling her. He learns that her parents are divorced and that her father, Billy Campbell, a handsome young singer, and attractive, vivacious grandmother, Nor Kelly, owner of a popular restaurant, have disappeared. For a year, Marissa hasn’t seen them and doesn’t know why.
“Christmas Eve will be Marissa’s eighth birthday and Sterling promises to try to set things right for her by then. He asks the Heavenly Council to take him back in time one year. He learns that Billy Campbell and Nor Kelly had become targets of two mobsters, the Badgett brothers, whom they had overheard plotting a crime. With their lives in danger, their only recourse was to go into protective custody and stay there until the law could catch up with the Badgetts—a remote prospect. Sterling finds a way to dupe the Badgett brothers and reunite Marissa with her family. On his return to earth, he also learns what he had missed before—the meaning of caring for others.”
• What is your next novel?
“Titled Daddy’s Little Girl, it is the story of a young girl’s murder and a sister’s quest for the identity of the killer.
“Ellie Cavanaugh was seven years old when her fifteen-year-old sister Andrea was murdered in Oldham-on-the-Hudson, a rural village in Westchester County. There were three suspects: Rob Westerfield, a wealthy nineteen-year-old whom Andrea had been secretly dating; Paul Stroebel, a sixteen-year-old who had a crush on Andrea; and Will Nebels, the fortyish local handyman.
“It was Ellie who had led her parents to the hideout in which Andrea’s body was found—a secret hideaway in which she met her friends. And it was Ellie who was blamed by her parents for her sister’s death, for not telling them about this secret place the night Andrea was missing. Her testimony was vital evidence in the conviction of one of the men. Steadfastly denying his guilt, he spent the next twenty-two years in prison.
“When he comes up for parole, Ellie, now an investigative reporter for an Atlanta newspaper, protests his release. The convicted killer, however, is set free and returns to Oldham. Determined to thwart his attempts to whitewash his reputation, Ellie also returns to Oldham, planning to write a series of articles conclusively proving his guilt. Her research reveals horrifying facts which may have led up to her sister’s murder, and each new piece of the puzzle brings her closer to a confrontation with a now-desperate killer.”
DEBRA LILL
MARY HIGGINS CLARK is the author of twenty-four worldwide bestsellers. She lives in Saddle River, New Jersey.
By Mary Higgins Clark
On the Street Where You Live
Deck the Halls (with Carol Higgins Clark)
Before I Say Good-Bye
We’ll Meet Again
All Through the Night
You Belong to Me
Pretend You Don’t See Her
My Gal Sunday
Moonlight Becomes You
Silent Night
Let Me Call You Sweetheart
The Lottery Winner
Remember Me
I’ll Be Seeing You
All Around the Town
Loves Music, Loves to Dance
The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Stories
While My Pretty One Sleeps
Weep No More, My Lady
Stillwatch
A Cry in the Night
The Cradle Will Fall
A Stranger Is Watching
Where Are the Children?
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Copyright © 2001 by Mary Higgins Clark
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First Pocket Books printing April 2002
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Mary Higgins Clark, On the Street Where You Live
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