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2.0 out of 5 stars
Page turner? Yes but...., 4 April 2003
I picture Mary Higgins Clark as a dear sweet white haired lady who hasn't really served time at the Life School of Hard Knocks. I might be completely wrong, because, as a grandmother myself, I certainly don't see myself as a white haired lady, but it is a certain quality in her writing which I can only describe as naive. I was going to put "endearingly naive" but I don't think so, I think "irritatingly naive" would be closer.I was very gripped by this story, written from the perspective of the adult young woman whose older sister was murdered when the author was seven. The killer who has always protested his innocence of the crime, has served 22 years and is now free, but the author wants to prove once and for all that he was guilty. To achieve this end, the writer makes it her mission in life to dig out all the dirt on the supposed killer and put it on her Website (sic). From the technical detail (or lack of it) used in the description of the website production I have little or no confidence that the author has any idea at all how to write and/or upload a website, but just hopes that if she keeps the details vague, we will be satisfied and assume she knows what she is doing. Or that most of her readers are similarly dear little white haired grandmothers who know as much about doing a website as the author, and will be none the wiser by the lack of technical know-how. For example, she is given a map of the grandmother of the alleged killer's house, supposedly used to set up a robbery and attempted murder of said grandmother by her dastardly grandson. The author decides to put the map on the Website. How she achieves this using only a laptop in a hotel room, with no access to a scanner, we are not explained. The author continues to put as many defamatory and unsubstantiated accusations on her Website as she can lay her hands on, and despite being warned of the safety of this tactic by everyone within a thousand mile radius, she is obsessed with proving this man's guilt, and listens to no one. However I would be willing to forgive Mary Higgins Clark this endearing (??) naivity as to the technical expertise of grandmothers out there, if the book had some genuine twists and surprises in it. I won't spoil the story for you but suffice it to say, that element for me, ruined the whole reading experience. Ruthie Pearlman
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