Mary Higgins Clark

Fleeing the disastrous and humiliating arrest of her hedge fund executive husband-to-be, Celia Kilbride, a gems and jewelry expert, hopes to escape from public attention and allegations she was a co-conspirator by lecturing on a brand-new cruise ship--the Queen Charlotte. On board she meets "Lady Em" who plans to wear her priceless emerald Cleopatra necklace. Three day sout at sea and Lady Em is found dead--and the necklace is missing. Celia, with...

When we last saw Nancy Harmon, she was a young California mother convicted of murdering her two chidren. Though released on a technicality, she was abandoned by her husband and became such a pariah in the media that she was forced to move across the country to Cape Cod, change her identity and appearance, and start a new life. Years later her two children from a second marriage, Mike and Melissa, would go missing, and Nancy yet again became the prime...

"In a first-time collaboration, "Queen of Suspense" Mary Higgins Clark partners with bestselling author Alafair Burke to deliver a brand new suspense series about a television program featuring cold case murders. Television producer Laurie Moran is delighted when the pilot for her reality drama, Under Suspicion, is a success. Even more, the program--a cold case series that revisits unsolved crimes by recreating them with those affected--is off to...

Five years after her husband was killed at a city playground in front of his son, now-noted TV producer Laurie Moran launches a new 'cold case' show that pays victims' friends and families to clear their names by reenacting the unsolved crimes. First up is a rich Westchester matron whose murder coincided with his daughter and her friends' college celebration sleepover. The four women are back to reenact what happened that fateful night.

The second book in the Under Suspicion series finds intrepid television producer Laurie Moran investigating the chilling case of a missing bride. --Publisher

A beloved aunt's agreement to help her niece with college essays reawakens past secrets about the night a grandparent was murdered, an event that compels the woman to investigate a treasured music box to uncover the truth.

"Laurie Moran's professional life is a success--her television show Under Suspicion is a hit, both in the ratings and its record of solving cold cases. But her romantic break from former host Alex Buckley has left her with on-air talent she can't stand--Ryan Nichols--and a sense of loneliness, despite her loving family. Now Ryan has suggested a new case. Three years ago, Virginia Wakeling, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum...

In this novel the author exposes a dark secret from a family's past that threatens the lives of two sisters, Kate and Hannah Connelly, when the family-owned furniture firm in Long Island City, founded by their grandfather and famous for its fine reproductions of antiques, explodes into flames in the middle of the night, leveling the buildings to the ground, including the museum where priceless antiques have been on permanent display for years. The...

Mariah Lyons risks her life to solve the brutal murder of her father, Dr. Jonathan Lyons, a well-respected academic, who in a stroke of luck comes into the possession of an ancient and highly valuable parchment stolen from the Vatican in the 15th century.

The two identical brothers seemed perfect in every way-handsome, intelligent, popular-until a shocking summer night when one brother killed his parents in cold blood while the other brother had an iron-clad alibi. But which twin was where during the murders? And is it possible the two of them planned the perfect crime together? Years later, the twins are long estranged, each of them claiming to be convinced that the other is responsible for the death...