Mary Higgins Clark

A collection of short stories by the "Queen of Suspense" features her first published short story, "Stowaway."

At age eighty-two and in failing health, Olivia Morrow must decide whether she will expose a long-held family secret and reveal that her cousin, Catherine, gave birth to a son at age seventeen and gave him up for adoption before entering a convent. Now deceased, Sister Catherine is being considered for beatification by the Catholic Church. Olivia Morrow, a Manhattan psychologist, begins to suspect that her husband Jonathan, a brilliant obstetrician...

In The Lost Years, Mary Higgins Clark, Americas Queen of Suspense, has written her most astonishing novel to date. At its center is a discovery that, if authenticated, may be the most revered document in human historythe holiest of the holyand certainly the most coveted and valuable object in the world. Biblical scholar Jonathan Lyons believes he has found the rarest of parchmentsa letter that may have been written by Jesus Christ. Stolen from the...

Lottery winner-turned-amateur sleuth Alvirah Meehan teams up with private detective Regan Reilly to track down the ninety-foot tree, destined for display in Rockefeller Center, that vanished en route to the city.

In a novel that reaffirms her reputation as "America's Queen of Suspense," Mary Higgins Clark delivers a gripping tale of deception and tantalizing suspense. Nicholas Spencer, charismatic head of the medical research company Gen-stone, involved in the development of an anticancer vaccine, suddenly disappears. His private plane crashes en route to Puerto Rico, but his body is not found. Early results of the vaccine seemed highly promising. Yet, coinciding...

A depiction of the marriage of George and Martha Washington, not without conflict, punctuated by long months of separation. At the end of George's long career, the couple return to Mount Vernon, just as happy as they were at the beginning of their marriage.

Maggie Holloway arrives at a dinner where she is to be honored as the long-lost stepdaughter and finds the hostess Nuala dead, the victim of an apparently random break-in and robbery.

When Molly is paroled after being falsely convicted of murdering her husband, she beseeches her friend, investigative reporter Fran Simmons, to do an expose on her case and flush out the real killer.