- Hardcover: 294 pages
- Publisher: St Martin's Press (25 Jan 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0312262663
- ISBN-13: 978-0312262662
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,206,260 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"[An] expert tale...delivers the goods."--"Publishers Weekly"
"Clark's story retains its suspense throughout."--"Newark Star-Ledger"
"A frightening-- and firsthand-- look at the darker side of celebrity."--"Sun Herald" (Colusa, CA)
--This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.
"Clark's story retains its suspense throughout."--"Newark Star-Ledger"
"A frightening-- and firsthand-- look at the darker side of celebrity."--"Sun Herald" (Colusa, CA)
--This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.
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Someone wants to get closer to news anchorwoman Eliza Blake - even if it takes murder to do it. In order to stay alive Eliza has to answer the five key questions: What does Eliza do to get letters from fans and threatening notes from fanatics? When should Eliza start worrying that she and her young daughter are in mortal danger? Where is the stalker hiding? Is her tormentor right before her eyes? Why have so many people become obsessed with getting closer to her? Who is no longer content with just watching? It could be anyone with a television set. Tense and terrifying, CLOSE TO YOU is Mary Jane Clark at her page-turning best.
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Format:Mass Market Paperback
Perhaps the best of Mary Jane Clark's novels to date.
Eliza Blake, TV anchor woman for KEY evening news, is beautiful, sexy and adored by millions of viewers. Privately, she is a single mum who has just bought a beautiful house in the suburbs, where she believes she has found the perfect home and safety for herself and her little daughter.
However, among all the fan mail she daily receives, there is one who proves to be not only a nutcase but a real and dangerous threat. Soon there are phone calls, and maybe even a stalker...........
Mary Jane Clark knows how to keep up the pace and interest in her books. A highly gifted writer, her personal knowledge of the TV business only adds to make her books even more alive and genuine.
As all her books, "Close to You" is a real pageturner. If you have not read any of them before, this is a very good one to start with.
Highly recommended!
Eliza Blake, TV anchor woman for KEY evening news, is beautiful, sexy and adored by millions of viewers. Privately, she is a single mum who has just bought a beautiful house in the suburbs, where she believes she has found the perfect home and safety for herself and her little daughter.
However, among all the fan mail she daily receives, there is one who proves to be not only a nutcase but a real and dangerous threat. Soon there are phone calls, and maybe even a stalker...........
Mary Jane Clark knows how to keep up the pace and interest in her books. A highly gifted writer, her personal knowledge of the TV business only adds to make her books even more alive and genuine.
As all her books, "Close to You" is a real pageturner. If you have not read any of them before, this is a very good one to start with.
Highly recommended!
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Gripping Suspense
26 Aug 2001
Format:Hardcover
I couldn't put this page-turner down. Stalkers come in all shapes and sizes -- even genders, and Eliza Blake (from Clark's debut thriller) is the perfect target, smart and self-assured, even when the letters and phone calls become increasingly menacing. The reader finds out who's getting closer and closer only when Eliza does -- and then it's too late! Immensely enjoyable. When I'm watching Katie Couric and Diane Sawyer these days, I can only wonder who else is watching . . . and planning God-knows-what. I strongly recommend Mary Jane Clark's latest, and very readable, suspenser.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Good story spoiled by way too many characters & subplots ...
9 July 2002
Format:Hardcover
We've felt the same way after all four of M.J. Clark's four novels of mystery and suspense set in the interesting venue of "Key News", no doubt a knock-off of CBS News where our author toils in real life. Her stories are invariably entertaining and suspenseful, even though her female leading characters verge on Wonder Women. And one eventually gets used to her one- and two-page (or less!) chapter lengths. But we really don't need three main plots and three sub-plots in one fairly short novel, much less the several dozen characters it takes to populate all those mini-stories.
The tale this time is about Eliza Blake, reprised from Clark's first novel "Do You Want to Know a Secret?", who now anchors the evening news broadcast. Two or more viewers, not to mention some of her co-workers, are taking way too much interest in Blake, leading to three variations of a stalking problem, two different male romances gone awry, and one potential female liaison thrown in for good measure! As before, Eliza is so perfect it's clear she's Clark's vision of a modern, progressive, gorgeous, single female parent on the pedestal personified, which gets just a little tiresome after a while. But even more tiresome is the seemingly endless cast of characters and plot details that only sap strength from the main story.
We've complained loudly about this same "clutter" in MJ's three earlier works. We guess there's just no recourse but too quit now before we invest any more time in an author who otherwise has tremendous potential. Can't an editor do something here?
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Predictable
31 May 2002
Format:Hardcover
With Close To You, Mary Jane Clark has an interesting premise but turns it into a disappointing novel. At under 300 pages, it's is certainly a quick read, but Clark fails to deliver genuine suspense. The so called "thrilling" sequences in the book are much too short, barely giving the reader time to think about what's going on. On top of this, the novel is quite predictable. Anyone with half a brain could figure out the identity of the killer within thirty pages.
One could forgive the predictability if the characters were well developed, but unfortunately, Ms. Clark didn't do this either. Other than the novel's heroine, we don't get much of a backstory for any character.
Mary Jane Clark has a long way to go before she can join the ranks of the great suspense novelists, such as James Patterson and John Sandford. All and all, you could easily find something worse to read than Close To You, but the real question is, why would you waste your time with it when there are so many better books out there?
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