Pretend You Don't See Her

PRETEND YOU DON'T SEE HER
By: MARY HIGGINS CLARK

Description: All the elements are in place: an appealing, plucky working-girl heroine placed in instant danger; a virile, adoring would-be lover kept at arm's length until the curtain; a cute moppet (also in danger); a doting but somewhat foolish mother; a dead dad whose spirit is ever-present in times of crisis. What's lacking is any real suspense, or, in this case, a satisfactory windup. Lacey Farrell is a comely young real estate saleswoman in Manhattan who has a client, Isabelle Waring, murdered virtually before her eyes, then has to spend most of the book on the run from the killer, whom only she can identify. In the process she goes into the witness protection program, and the most interesting part of the novel (Clark is always good on research) is the details on how this works. The plot, however-involving Isabelle's certainty that her daughter was murdered, the suspicion that falls on the wealthy man who owns Lacey's real estate firm and his scapegrace son, and a hit man who remorselessly pursues Lacey-is perfunctory in the extreme. When the real villain is finally unmasked-in a few throwaway sentences-the reader has almost forgotten he existed and is given no clue as to how and why he did all his evil deeds.

There are very few adult authors that I really like. Mary Higgins Clark is one of them. She does a good job of combining a touch of romance, mystery, suspense and drama together without it being too much. Her books are always clean and not to gory. I really liked this book! In fact I stayed up all night trying to finish it before i had to leave to head home (It's my mom's book).

Mary Higgins Clark weaves a tale of murder that just makes your skin crawl! She has such a way of describing us as human beings, small things that we do, that we don't notice very often. She writes so that you can not only see what is going to happen. But so that you feel along with the Characters! If you want a good romance/suspense, try one of Mary Higgins Clark's novels, I have yet to find one that I didn't love!