Piper Donovan, aspiring actress, is headed to Florida to be the maid-of-honor in her cousin's wedding and to help her mom bake the wedding cake. When she arrives, she find that one of the bridesmaids has disappeared and no one has seen her for three days. This is just the first of a string of u...
Caroline Enright is KEY's News Film and Theatre Critic and three months ago married Nick McGregor who was widowed last year and has a daughter Meg. Although Caroline and Nick's union is a happy one, she is finding the relationship between her and her stepdaughter difficult, to say the least. Af...
Good Venue, Satisfying Plot, But Lots of Clutter...By now y'all probably 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) leadin...
Nobody in this perfect seaside resort town ever imagined that the body of a missing heiress might be found deep in a tunnel beneath her family's crumbling Newport estate. Nobody, that is, but the last person to see her alive. Now, as a KEY News crew investigates the murder, a cold-blooded killer ...
Nobody Knows The Dark Secrets.Cassie Sheridan has all a television news reporter could want: an important beat in Washington D.C., and a skyrocketing career. But then, she makes a critical mistake. Suddenly, her career is in shambles.Nobody Knows How Far A Murderer Will Go.Cassie is transferred t...
Mary Jane's Second Outing -- Much Better !!In her first novel, Mary Jane Clark gave us a fine plot with plenty of suspense til right near the end, some characters to like (albeit the leading lady was a bit "squeaky clean"), and a different venue from most mysteries -- the busy newsroom of a major...
Clark settles in to fine third outing -- but still clutter...We've been reading Mary Jane Clark's newsroom-set mysteries in order, and it appears the "formula" is now firmly set. Again, we have the interesting venue of "Key News", where Clark capitalizes on her real life job at CBS News to give u...
FINALLY done. I was really only reading this when on breaks at work and mostly wound up chatting to coworkers.This book was difficult to get in to. Sure, it's got anthrax, and all the haute topics that followed in pocket fiction in the early days after 9/11, but, eh. The book was enjoyable enough...
Twenty-six days until the wedding Mother and daughter worked, side by side, in the kitchen of The Icing on the Cupcake. Piper Donovan mixed buttercream while her mother poured smooth batter into round baking pans. The front of the store was closed, the shelves emptied of the rolls, Danishes, and ...
The two women walked together into the empty car. “How’s it going?” asked Eliza. “Well, for starters, I just fired Boyd Irons,” Lauren announced. Eliza looked startled. “You’re kidding. Why? Just yesterday you were speaking up for him with our legal department.” “No, I’m not kidding,” Lauren said...
the bartender shouted above the music. “He called and asked me to cover for him. Something about helping that mentally ill guy he’s always with.” Matthew was tempted to leave the envelope with the substitute bartender but thought better of it. It should be delivered directly to Shawn. Besides, th...
Piper Donovan moved up in the express checkout line and placed her six items on the conveyor belt. “What kind of dog do you have?” asked the cashier, scanning a box of canine treats before depositing it in Piper’s reusable shopping tote. “A Jack Rus...
They hurried halfway down the main aisle, genuflecting before they entered a pew. As the Saturday-evening Mass began, Vin was thinking of his only daughter. For the last two days, he’d been turning to the Internet, trying to find out all he could about what was happening a...
the police officer said to his partner. “If those kids saw a black van on Monday afternoon, it’s long gone by now.” “Yeah, you’re right,” said the other patrolman, “but we’ve got to check anyway.” As they rounded the corner of the dry-cleaning plant, they saw a white Volvo station wagon parked on...
Six days until the wedding Piper got up early, showered, dressed, and ran the vacuum cleaner around the living, dining, and family rooms. Emmett accompanied her, seeming deliberately to roll on the rug and leave a new deposit of hair in spots Piper had just cleaned. “Emmet...
Garcia was upset by the puppy and the newspaper spread across the kitchen floor, she had the good grace not to show it when she showed up for her first day of work. She knelt right down to pet the little dog as Janie, still in her pajamas, hung back in the doorway and watched. KayKay and Paul had...
She assumed he was only curious, wanting to see what he could of a murder scene. She was surprised when he stated the reason he was there. “I’m here for the St. Joseph’s bread. I buy it every year.” Piper had entirely forgotten the feast day. ...