READ THIS: The Shadow of Your Smile by Mary Higgins Clark Our Coverage Sponsored By Gabriel's Bar & Restaurant
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We absolutely love Mary Higgins Clark and find everything she does simply fantastic! Since we have already written on The Lost Years:
Which you ought to read, too, we are going back and reviewing as many of her books as we can!
The Shadow of Your Smile introduces us to many complex characters with lives interwoven in New York, Ireland, Boston and a few other places, and of course Peachy personally likes that she happens to have lived in all those places too so she understands them and therefore the book more. We love how Mary shows rather than tells, and you know how few works of fiction have been so highly recommended by us. Secrets, unknown relations, and searching for answers punctuate this colorful nail-biter, which as shown, is a lovely beach read.
Who can you trust? Who has morals? Who is a coldblooded killer underneath it all? One question we will answer is "Will I Be Able to Put this Book Down?" and that response from Peachy is a resounding: NO. She read it cover to cover as the sun set. One question we have for Mary is what bar were you talking about on York Avenue???
In a world of high-class 501c3's (charities!), New York has all kinds of them, and you'll find how the one in the book is run quite alarming. Will the protagonists prevail in the end? And who knew being an event planner was so dangerous? You absolutely have to read this to find out-we will not give out details but if you don't have a whole shelf dedicated to Mary Higgins Clark on your bookshelf, clear one out soon! Whom You Know Highly Recommends The Shadow of Your Smile!
In The Shadow of Your Smile, worldwide bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark weaves a spellbinding thriller revolving around a long-held family secret that threatens to emerge and take the life of an unsuspecting heiress.
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.
The letters Olivia holds are the evidence that Catherine gave birth at age seventeen to a child, a son, and gave him up for adoption. Olivia knows the identity of the young man who fathered Catherine's child: Alex Gannon, who went on to become a world-famous doctor, scientist, and inventor holding medical patents.
Now, two generations later, thirty-one-year-old pediatrician Dr. Monica Farrell, Catherine's granddaughter, stands as the rightful heir to what remains of the family fortune. But in telling Monica who she really is, Olivia would have to betray Catherine's wishes and reveal the story behind Monica's ancestry.
The Gannon fortune is being squandered by Alex's nephews Greg and Peter Gannon, and other board members of the Gannon Foundation, who camouflage their profligate lifestyles with philanthropy.
Now their carefully constructed image is cracking. Greg, a prominent financier, is under criminal investigation, and Peter, a Broadway producer, is a suspect in the murder of a young woman who has been extorting money from him.
The only people aware of Olivia's impending choice are those exploiting the Gannon inheritance. To silence Olivia and prevent Monica from learning the secret, some of them will stop at nothing—even murder.
Clark's riveting new novel explores the juxtaposition of medical science and religious faith, and the search for identity by the daughter of a man adopted at birth.
