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I'll Be Seeing You (Turtleback School & Library Binding Edition)

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Mary Higgens Clark, how do you do it?!?! I loved this book, "I'll Be Seeing You" because it was very adventerous and so compelling! The book is about a young TV reporter named Meg Collins. It starts out with Meg reporting a story of a stabbed victem and finds that the girl who was stabbed looks shockingly like Meg herself! All while this is going on, the police are trying to solve the mystery of Meg's father, who supposedly died in a tragic car crash on a bridge, and went over the edge into the water. Sure, that doesn't sound like a mystery, but the thing is the police never found the car or the body in the water. Meg and her mother are trying to convince themselves that "yes, he did die in that car crash" and "no, he wasn't living a double life"- which the police think he was living a double life. When they figure out the truth it will deffinitly shock you! You'll be on the edge of your seat the whole time you're reading this book, and you'll never want to put it down until you finish it!

I'll Be Seeing You is a very interesting book filled with mystery and suspense. Clark's main character, Meghan, is a successful young newscaster. Meghan is very close to her parents, and when her father - and his car- disappears in a fatal car accident she is devastated. The authorities can't find any evidence that Meghan's father was killed in the car accident, so the only conclusion they can come to is that he faked his own death. Meghan wants to get to the bottom of it, but when she begins to investigate for clues to where her father could be, strange things start happening. This is a great book for readers who like mysteries with unsuspected killers and hidden motives.

This was my second Mary Higgins Clark novel. The two that I have read are the same in some ways. You never know what could happen next and you do not know what all the characters know one or the other in some form. In the two novels that I have read I noticed that until you get to the end of the book you do not know how all the characters will meet up. Her novels are the same style of writing but you can never put the novel down. Mary Higgins Clark novel I'll Be Seeing You is a suspense that will keep you guessing until the end. The novel is set in the area around New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Philadelphia. The novel takes place in modern times. The novel is about a reporter named Meghan Collins whose father just died but they can not find his body. Meghan and mother need to find the body of Meghan father. If they do not find his body then Meghan's mother inn will go under. Meghan one sees the body of a dead girl who looks just like her. The novel is about Meghan trying to find answers to her father's death and why this girl looks so much like her. On Meghan's quest to find answer the story comes more and more unbelievable. With everything that Meghan finds it seems the less she knows about her father and the people around her. The more Meghan finds out about people the less she feels she trusts them and in the end the betrayal that Meghan never saw coming. In the novel you will feel for Meghan and her mother. You will see the heart ship that they go threw and you will ask yourself why. The novel will keep you guess till the end. In the novel Meghan has a conflict with her dead father. Meghan does not know what to think of him after she found some things about her. Meghan has conflicts with the people that she can trust and can not trust. I liked the novel. The reasons I liked the novel are that you never know what is going to happen next. You will be thinking one thing and then something else will come up and you will change your mind. In the novel you can never be sure of one thing or the other. The novel does fallow the style of Mary Higgins Clark. Where you never know quite what is going till you get to the end of the novel. You never know what will come next, with each new discover that the characters find. Then at the end the story makes sense why everything happens. The novel just like the other one I read. You will keep guessing what will come next and be surprised at what does end up happening.

I found this to be an excellent novel with well-developed characters and an great plot. The plot began to thicken right from the beginning when the protagonist sees a stabbing victim that bears a striking resemblence to herself, while on assignment as a reporter. Every detail was carefully thought out, and every detail was connected in the final outcome. This book has everything: some science/medical jargon, an action-packed chase scene, a lot of suspense, and a love story. If you want to read a good detective story and love to try and figure out the ending, this book is for you. If you pay attention to the little things you may be able to put the puzzle together, but there's always a twist at the end. It keeps on the edge of your seat until the very end. I could not read fast enough as I waited to see what happened. I loved reading this book and would recommend it to all of my friends.

I understand that suspense novels are by design meant to be a little far fetched but this book just had too many coincidences for me to find it even remotely plausible... The book was a decent read but definitely not one of my favorite MHC books. The ending was predictable. I suspected (won't say the name) the "suspect" from the 2nd or 3rd chapter. I was willing to look over the many coincidences but then the end just made me feel robbed...all in all if you aren't an avid suspense reader this book will satisfy you...if you are big suspense/MHC fan this book will dissapoint you.

Television reporter Meghan Collins is shocked when a stabbing victim who dies looks exactly like her. She doesn't tell her mother about the woman, or the late-night fax she gets at home, claiming the woman's death was a mistake, because Catherine Collins has enough on her mind. Ten months earlier her husband disappeared, supposedly a victim in a bridge accident. The authorities did not find any remains of Ed Collins or his car, however, so the insurance company is refusing to pay and her bills are piling up. Catherine collapses and winds up in the hospital when someone calls, claiming to be her missing husband.

Meghan had been interviewing personnel at a fertility clinic for a feature story, but when one of the clinic's doctors is murdered and it is found she falsified her credentials, evidence points at Ed Collins, who got the woman hired at the clinic through his professional placement business. Because of the scandal, Meg is placed on leave, so she uses the time to investigate her father, who had a lot of secrets. In addition to the double life Meg and her mother begin to suspect Ed Collins had, it is possible he had even more to hide. The burning question is...is Ed Collins alive or dead?

Meanwhile, Meghan is being stalked by a parking attendant who took a liking to her, and he's hanging around her mother's house and place of business hoping for glimpses of Meg. Meg's feelings for her mother's neighbor, Mac, rekindle as she spends time with him and his small son, looking into discrepancies at her father's business and at the fertility clinic.

Since the last couple of Clark books I read introduced a multitude of characters I couldn't keep straight, I decided to make myself a cheat sheet. I was glad I did, since there were at least a dozen recurring characters introduced within the first 50 pages. I didn't seem to need to refer to it very often, though. This was an intriguing story with several components all tied into one answer. In all, a very entertaining read that kept me turning the pages. This is definitely one of Mary Higgins Clark's better books.

love all of Mary Higgins-Clarks work. This book is a long series of successful suspense. Her heroines are real and likeable. And the situations are up to date and trendy. I look forward to her next book. I must admit I like that her books are an easy read, usually one or two days tops.

As with all MHC novels, this is a great read.

A reporter finds a stabbed victim that seems interestingly similar in appearance to her and this entangles us into a web of deceit by many characters in this novel.

The reporter's father ends up missing, thought to be dead - but, things start happening making everyone wonder if he is indeed alive. The reporter starts doing her own investigation and as she finds out more and more about her father's life, things start going wrong and the reporter's interest is turned elsewhere, leaving her with the knowing thought that her father had another family out of state and that something is terribly wrong where her father worked.

You know MHC will pull it all together for you and it really is an outstanding ending. All of your questions will be answered.

This is a fun read. The main mystery is about Meghan's father. Mehgan tries to unravel whether her dad is dead or alive, if he had a double life, and if he murdered a unqualified fertility doctor after his disappearance. I really liked how all of these story lines flowed together and how they added to the mystery and suspense. I really didn't feel this story line was as predictable as other reviewers felt it was. I went back and forth between suspecting who the real murderer was and the ending surprised me.

I also like how Higgins-Clark developed the characters. That said, Bernie really didn't add anything to this book. I am not sure what Clark needed him for other than to add a disturbed character.

All in all this book did not disappoint.

I just didn't want to finish this great book. I felt so close to the characters especially Meghan. This is a great read to take on a plane flight. The time goes by real fast. I started reading it on a Saturday night and read l00 pages in like 2 hours. You just never know what was going to happen next. I have always enjoyed a Sidney Sheldon book and have read all of his. Now I guess I am going to read all of Ms. Clark's. A great mystery lover's book.