READ THIS: I'LL WALK ALONE By Mary Higgins Clark Our Coverage Sponsored by Stribling and Associates
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Because we've been so impressed with Mary Higgins Clark, and we've already reviewed her current titles:
The Lost Years
The Shadow of Your Smile
We're now going back and reviewing what is available that we missed! It is hard to beat a book by Mary Higgins Clark for the simple fact that she has an innate talent of drawing you in immediately and sucking you into a story you can't put down. Truth be told, Peachy practically has read each of these books from cover to cover, because Clark is that fantastic. This is not news, because she has published dozens and dozens of books, starting before Peachy's birth....
We believe the quality of writing employed coupled with the praiseworthy character development that we see in each of her books is the recipe for the success that she enjoys. She's obviously masted the show don't tell rule, and of course, the cherry on top is the plot itself. Every book we've read by her surprises us, and Peachy is usually not so bad at guessing what may happen. However, Clark's books always have an added twist that you would not anticipate.
The subject of I'll Walk Alone centers on identity theft, which is a subject that should scare everyone, especially if you live in New York. Think about what it would be like in your life if someone tried to be you (despite your understood uniqueness!) and what people of evil do to get something and stop at nothing. How do you make someone believe you when you are telling the truth and no one thinks so? We also like the research that Clark must do in each book, learning the ins and outs of each subject to make it real and true in the novel.
Whom You Know just loved I'll Walk Alone by Mary Higgins Clark and we highly recommend it! We can't wait to read more of her.
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In I'll Walk Alone, Alexandra "Zan" Moreland, a gifted, beautiful interior designer on the threshold of a successful Manhattan career, is terrified to discover that somebody is not only using her credit cards and manipulating her financial accounts to bankrupt her and destroy her reputation, but may also be impersonating her in a scheme that may involve the much more brutal crimes of kidnapping and murder. Zan is already haunted by the disappearance of her own son, Matthew, kidnapped in broad daylight two years ago in Central Park—a tragedy that has left her torn between hope and despair.
Now, on what would be Matthew's fifth birthday, photos surface that seem to show Zan kidnapping her own child, followed by a chain of events that suggests somebody—but who? Zan asks herself desperately, and why?—has stolen her identity.
Hounded by the press, under investigation by the police, attacked by both her angry ex-husband and a vindictive business rival, Zan, wracked by fear and pain and sustained only by her belief, which nobody else shares, that Matthew is still alive, sets out to discover who is behind this cruel hoax.
What she does not realize is that with every step she takes toward the truth, she is putting herself—and those she loves most—in mortal danger from the person who has ingeniously plotted out her destruction.
Even Zan's supporters, who include Alvirah Meehan, the lottery winner and amateur detective, and Father Aiden O'Brien, who thinks that Zan may have confessed to him a secret he cannot reveal, believe she may have kidnapped little Matthew. Zan herself begins to doubt her own sanity, until, in the kind of fast-paced explosive ending that is Mary Higgins Clark's trademark, the pieces of the puzzle fall into place with an unexpected and shocking revelation.
