Let Me Whisper in Your Ear [Mass Market Paperback]

Mary Jane Clark (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 15, 2001

There are some things nobody can possibly know...and others that nobody should dare to guess...

A pair of thrill-seeking boys crept into Palisades Park after dark to ride the Cyclone. When the roller coaster returned to the station, it was carrying only one child. What happened to the other would remain veiled in secrecy for the next three decades...

As a rising KEY News producer, Laura Walsh prepares video obituaries of famous people whose deaths seem imminent. But the macabre guessing game, and an eerily pre-taped obituary, plunge Laura into a chilling nightmare when one of her famous colleagues unexpectedly tumbles to her death from a Manhattan rooftop. Now Laura must delve into the dead woman's secret past-- a past that holds a shocking connection to her own, and to a missing boy. Desperate to uncover the truth and unmask a cunning killer, Laura soon realizes with growing dread that the next obituary she should be writing is her own...

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review

Laura Walsh, a KEY News reporter, shares a professional background similar to Mary Jane Clark's. Both Clark and the heroine of her new romantic thriller spent time writing obituaries of celebrities who aren't dead yet, a ghoulish job that seems to be a steppingstone to greater responsibility. In Laura's case, it is correspondent for Hourglass, a 60 Minutes type of show whose star, Gwyneth Gilpatric, has taken a very personal interest in her. When Laura pitches a story on the now-defunct Palisades Amusement Park, where the remains of a 12-year-old boy who disappeared from the park over 30 years ago have just been found, she has no idea how close to home her investigation will lead. And when Gwyneth (a Diane Sawyer look-alike) plunges to her death from her terrace during her annual New Year's Eve party, Laura is still in the dark about the star's connection with the park, the missing boy, and her own father, whose ties to that murky past unravel as more killings occur. In fact, Laura's not particularly quick on the uptake, although she's certainly young, attractive, and blow-dried enough to play the-woman-in-danger role in this somewhat tepid story. More interesting by far is her best friend Francheska, whose married lover, a plastic surgeon trying to keep his Parkinson's disease a secret from his patients (particularly Gwyneth), tips Laura off whenever someone rich and famous enough to have an obituary prewritten goes on life support. Francheska's role in the plot is slowly revealed in a not very surprising finale that wraps up everything quite tidily. Not Clark's best effort, this novel will nonetheless please fans of the genre who are more interested in the romance than the thrills. --Jane Adams --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Review

"Mary Jane Clark is one of the most exciting novelists in America today."-- Dan Rather

"A suspense-charged, absorbing tale of treachery, troubled psyches, and flawed relationships that leaps beyond romantic suspense into the heart's darkest realms...Kept me guessing right up until the final jolting betrayal."-- Perri O'Shaughnessy, author of Move to Strike

"Mary Jane Clark has a gift for writing page-turners."-- Mary Higgins Clark

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Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 336 pages
• Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks; 1st edition (July 15, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312977433
• ISBN-13: 978-0312977436
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #327,378 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Mary Jane Clark is the New York Times bestselling author of fourteen novels: 12 KEY News media thrillers and 2 Piper Donovan/Wedding Cake Mysteries. A former writer and producer at CBS News in New York City, Clark is the daughter of an FBI agent and mother of two. She lives in Florida and New Jersey.

Customer Reviews

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars She did again and this time its even better, August 11, 2000

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"frenchy78" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Let Me Whisper in Your Ear (Hardcover)

Oh my God, Mary Jane Clark did it again, and this time its better than before. Her latest novel "Let Me Whisper In Your Ear" is true to its media thriller genre. Mary Jane Clark had me hooked from the first page to the last. She is so good with the whodunit's that she had me guessing all the way to end, and even then I was shocked to find out who it was. Her writing is so clear and easy to read, you get hooked on the characters and you get to know what goes on behind the scenes of the television world. She has got the media world down packed. You have got to get this book its too good not to. Also read her two prior books, "Do You Want To Know A Secret" and "Do You Promise Not to Tell," for more info on them check out her website www.MaryJaneClark.com, that's how I found out about them or just read what the other amazon customers have written about them. I really think she is definitely the Next Big Thing...

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The best Mary Jane Clark book yet., October 19, 2000

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Moe811 (New York USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Let Me Whisper in Your Ear (Hardcover)

The Clark family has a real feel for the suspense novel. This member has set her mysteries around a television network's news division in NYC. Her main character is an up and coming producer of a 60 Minutes-like news program. She is working on a story of the diappearance of a young boy from the old Palisades Amusement Park, not knowing that both she and her superiors at work have ties to the incident. The plot twists and turns are engrossing and I had a hard time putting this one down.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Page-Turner, June 22, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Let Me Whisper in Your Ear (Mass Market Paperback)

I saw this book in a bookstore and bought it after reading the synopsis. It was a good buy and I read it in one day. The book is written sometimes from many different people's viewpoints,but it isn't confusing like some books are when they are written like that. It focuses on the death of a little boy that happened thirtysomething years ago and the more recent death of a reporter who jumped off the roof of the building she lived in. It's ruled a suicide, but Laura Walsh wonders whether it really is or not. Now she begins the journey of going through the reporter's past. But will the past also include of shocking revelations that she wished she never had found out? Will she finally find out what her mother's haunting words meant that she told her father so many years ago? She also soon finds out that somehow the suicide case and the case of the boy who died thirtysomething years ago are tied in someway. How she doesn't know. But she intends to find out what happened that night to the little boy and how he died and why. All the questions and many more are answered in the end. Get this book and find out what the answers are! Good book for summer reading on a vacation.