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Title: Do You Want to Know a Secret? by Mary Jane Clark, Beth Fowler ISBN: 079272285X Publisher: John Curley & Assoc Pub. Date: May, 1999 Format: Audio Cassette List Price(USD): $54.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.07
Rating: 4
Summary: GOOD SUSPENSEFUL BOOK
Comment: Eliza Blake, tv anchorwoman , is grieving over the death of her husband when her news partner, Bill Kendall, is found dead, apparently a suicide..........or was it???? Everyone has secrets to hide in this book, and the author knows how to play with our emotions..........I found this to be a realistic and exciting read, packed with twists and surprises....reminiscent of her (ex) mother-in-law, the great Mary Higgins Clark! Enjoy yourself with this one....she's an author to watch for!!
Rating: 5
Summary: Media, politics & murder, the best Clark I've ever read!
Comment: Mary Jane Clark's intelligent mystery novel gives the reader the inside scoop on the on the high stakes network news game. This was a book that I couldn't put down. Her heroes and villains alike are both believable and compelling. Certainly one of my best new mystery purchases, I couldn't stop reading until I had finished this book.
Rating: 3
Summary: Good Venue, Satisfying Plot, But Lots of Clutter
Comment: By now y'all know Mary Higgins Clark is the ex-mother-in-law of our author here, Mary Jane Clark. Many speak to the similarities of style -- a dashing (and gorgeous wholesome single mom, young widow, and accomplished professional) leading lady who overcomes all odds; enough violence and suspense to entertain and befuddle; and a nice clean ending we can all feel good about. Well hopefully that could be said about many a good book. The differences I see are more interesting. First the venue -- set mostly in the surrounds of a major news network, midst the tribulations of the early morning shows and anchor broadcasts at night, we certainly get (ala the movie "Network News") plenty of up close looks at the pressured lives on the news set. In the best tradition of write about what you know about, MJ speaks from personal experience as a producer and writer for CBS News. Indeed, Dan Rather gets a cameo mention in the story, as he does in the acknowledgments up front for his encouragement to the author. I just hope the romances reported among many co-workers aren't quite that prevalent, although as we know, propinquity is a powerful force (said Zelda to Dobie...).
Second, we get a pretty good story line. The first shocker is the apparent suicide of a famous anchor, followed thereafter (but paced well) by the murders of his doctor and his secretary. Even the most dense of us realize the connections, though the trained newshounds seemed to miss it. A big surprise at the end serves up a murderer I dare say few suspected more than a page or two before the unveiling, so high marks for suspense.
Third, and of course not as welcome, we do get an awful lot of characters, relationships, AIDS pleas, disease causes, snippets of events, changes in scenery, etc.; to me, all that clutter gets a little tiresome. Certain loose ends never do get wrapped up, and I'm not even sure that a major subplot, the campaign machinations of a presidential candidate, really advanced the basic story line that well. I also personally disliked chopping the book up into 141 (!) chapters - do the math, they span 302 pages, so that's like two pages each. And the last 35 span only 25 pages, so we're down to barely more than the "sound bites" so lovingly quoted throughout.
So - for her first outing (of four to date), not bad. Clean things up, simplify a little, give us a little longer reading stretch with out raising and lowering the curtain a hundred times, and we might have something here. I'll at least move on to number 2 - "Do you promise not to tell?". And you?
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Title: Do You Promise Not to Tell? by Mary Jane Clark ISBN: 0312974248 Publisher: St Martins Mass Market Paper Pub. Date: July, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Let Me Whisper in Your Ear by Mary Jane Clark ISBN: 0312977433 Publisher: St Martins Mass Market Paper Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Nobody Knows by Mary Jane Clark ISBN: 0312288662 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Close to You by Mary Jane Clark ISBN: 0312981961 Publisher: St Martins Mass Market Paper Pub. Date: August, 2002 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Jinxed : A Regan Reilly Mystery by Carol Clark ISBN: 0743205820 Publisher: Scribner Pub. Date: 27 August, 2002 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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