I'll walk alone

Zusatztext Praise for Mary Higgins Clark's I'll Walk Alone: “Fans will bite their nails to the quick.” — Kirkus Reviews “A gripping plot! a likable female lead! and a wonderfully eclectic cast of supporting characters.” — Library Journal Express “Teeming with tantalizing twists! Clark’s crackling tale of identity theft! revenge! and murder is a tempting and thought-provoking thriller.” — Booklist “Hang on to your hats for this latest page turner. . . . Scary.” — Fresh Fiction “One of Mary Higgins Clark’s most suspenseful books. Fans and newcomers alike will find themselves staying up all night to find out what happens next.” — Bookreporter Informationen zum Autor The #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark wrote over forty suspense novels, four collections of short stories, a his­torical novel, a memoir, and two children’s books. With bestselling author Alafair Burke she wrote the Under Suspicion series including The Cinderella Murder , All Dressed in White , The Sleeping Beauty Killer , Every Breath You Take , You Don’t Own Me , and Piece of My Heart . With her daughter Carol Higgins Clark, she coauthored five suspense novels. More than one hundred million copies of her books are in print in the United States alone. Her books are international bestsellers. Klappentext "Suspense devotees will rejoice" ("Library Journal Express") as bestselling author Clark tackles a most up-to-date crime: identity theft.I’ll Walk Alone 1 Father Aiden O’Brien was hearing confessions in the lower church of St. Francis of Assisi on West Thirty-first Street in Manhattan. The seventy-eight-year-old Franciscan friar approved of the alternate way of administering the sacrament, that of having the penitent sit in the Reconciliation Room with him, rather than kneeling on the hard wood of the confessional with a screen hiding his or her identity. The one time he felt the new way did not work was when, sitting face-to-face, he sensed that the penitents might not be able to allow themselves to say what might have been confided in darkness. This was happening now on this chilly, windswept afternoon in March. In the first hour he had sat in the room, only two women had shown up, regular parishioners, both in their mideighties, whose sins, if any had ever existed, were long behind them. Today one of them had confessed that when she was eight years old she remembered telling a lie to her mother. She had eaten two cupcakes and blamed her brother for the missing one. As Fr. Aiden was praying his rosary until he was scheduled to leave the room, the door opened and a slender woman who looked to be in her early thirties came in. Her expression tentative, she moved slowly toward the chair facing him and hesitantly sat down on it. Her auburn hair was loose on her shoulders. Her fur-collared suit was clearly expensive, as were her high-heeled leather boots. Her only jewelry was silver earrings. His expression serene, Fr. Aiden waited. Then when the young woman did not speak, he asked encouragingly, “How can I help you?” “I don’t know how to begin.” The woman’s voice was low and pleasant, with no hint of a geographical accent. “There’s nothing you can tell me that I haven’t already heard,” Fr. Aiden said mildly. “I . . .” The woman paused, then the words came rushing out. “I know about a murder that someone is planning to commit and I can’t stop it.” Her expression horrified, she clasped her hand over her mouth and abruptly stood up. “I should never have come here,” sh...

Product details

• Authors: Mary Higgins Clark
• Publisher: Pocket Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 20.03.2012
• EAN: 9781439180976
• ISBN: 978-1-4391-8097-6
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 108 mm x 172 mm x 23 mm
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage