
Book Review: Where Are You Now?

Where Are You Now?
THE ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC BOOK REVIEW, BY JAMES MYERS
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WHERE ARE YOU NOW?
By Mary Higgins Clark
Published by: Simon and Schuster
Publication Date: April, 2008
Price: $25.95
289 Pages
ISBN-13: 9781416566380
Five Star Rating *****
AMERICAN AUTHOR OF 24 SUSPENSE NOVELS
ALL OF WHICH HAVE BEEN A BESTSELLER IN THE UNITED STATES AND EUROPE
ALL OF HER NOVELS AS OF 2008 REMAINS IN PRINT
WHERE ARE THE CHILDREN, HER FIRST NOVEL, IS IN ITS 75TH PRINTING
BY 2007 HER NOVELS HAVE SOLD MORE THAN 80 MILLION COPIES IN THE UNITED STATES ALONE
IN 2001, THE HARDCOVER EDITION OF CLARK'S ON THE STREET WHERE YOU LIVE WAS NUMBER ONE ON THE NEW YORK TIMES HARDCOVER BESTSELLER LIST AT THE SAME TIME THAT THE PAPERBACK VERSION OF HER NOVEL BEFORE I SAY GOOD-BYE REACHED NUMBER ONE ON THE NEW YORK TIMES PAPERBACK BESTSELLER LIST
HER BOOKS ARE ALSO NUMBER ONE BESTSELLERS IN FRANCE, AND HAVE EARNED HER THE DISTINCTION OF BEING NAMED A CHEVALIER OF THE ORDER OF ARTS AND LETTERS IN FRANCE IN 2000. SHE HAS ALSO BEEN HONORED IN FRANCE WITH THE GRAND PRIX DE LITERATURE POLICIER (1980) AND THE DEAUVILLE FILM FESTIVAL LITERARY AWARD (1999)
KNOWN AS "THE QUEEN OF SUSPENSE", CLARK IS A "MASTER PLOTTER" WHO HAS THE ABILITY TO SLOWLY DRAW OUT THE TENSION WHILE MAKING THE READER THINK EVERYONE IS GUILTY. HER NOVELS FEATURE STRONG, INDEPENDENT YOUNG WOMEN WHO FIND THEMSELVES IN THE MIDST OF A PROBLEM THAT THEY MUST SOLVE WITH THEIR OWN COURAGE AND INTELLIGENCE. THE HEROINES COME ACROSS AS REAL PEOPLE WHO MAKE SENSIBLE DECISIONS, WHICH MAKES IT EASIER FOR READERS, WHO SOMETIMES THINK " "THAT COULD HAVE HAPPENED TO ME, OR TO MY TO DAUGHTER," TO RELATE TO THE SITUATIONS. CLARK'S BOOKS ARE WRITTEN FOR ADULTS, YET BECAUSE SHE CHOOSES NOT TO INCLUDE EXPLICIT SEX OR VIOLENCE IN HER STORIES, THEY HAVE BECOME POPULAR WITH CHILDREN AS YOUNG AS TWELVE.
SHE HAS WON THE HORATIO ALGER AWARD (1997) AND THE PASSIONISTS' ETHICS IN LITERATURE AWARD (2002), AS WELL AS THE ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE OF YESHIVA UNIVERSITY SPIRIT OF ACHIEVEMENT AWARD (1994) AND THE NATIONAL ARTS CLUB'S GOLD MEDAL IN EDUCATION (1994). SHE HAS BEEN AWARDED EIGHTEEN HONORARY DOCTORATES, INCLUDING ONE FROM HER ALMA MATER, FORDHAM UNIVERSITY.
THE AMERICAN-IRISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY GRANTED HER THE GOLD MEDAL OF HONOR IN 1993, AND IN 2001 SHE WON THE ELLIS ISLAND MEDAL OF HONOR. SHE HAS ALSO BEEN NAMED A BRONX LEGEND (1999).
CLARK HAS SERVED AS THE CHAIRMAN OF THE INTERNATIONAL CRIME CONGRESS IN 1988 AND WAS THE 1987 PRESIDENT OF THE MYSTERY WRITERS OF AMERICA. FOR MANY YEARS SHE ALSO SERVED ON THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE MYSTERY WRITERS OF AMERICA.
SIMON AND SCHUSTER, WHICH HAVE PUBLISHED ALL OF CLARK'S NOVELS AND IN THE LATE 1990S SIGNED HER TO A $64-MILLION, FOUR BOOK CONTRACT, HAVE FUNDED THE MARY HIGGINS CLARK AWARD, GIVEN BY THE MYSTERY WRITERS OF AMERICA TO AUTHORS OF SUSPENSE FICTION FOR EACH OF THE TEN YEARS BETWEEN 2001 AND 2011. THE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT AN AWARD WOULD BE GIVEN IN HER HONOR WAS MADE AT THE 55TH ANNUAL EDGAR ALLAN POE AWARDS, WHERE CLARK WAS INDUCTED AS A GRAND MASTER.
IN THE HIGHEST HONOR THAT CAN BE OFFERED TO A LAYPERSON BY THE POPE, CLARK HAS BEEN MADE A DAME OF THE ORDER OF ST. GREGORY THE GREAT, AND HAS ALSO BEEN HONORED AS A DAME OF MALTA AND A DAME OF THE HOLY SEPULCHER OF JERUSALEM. THE FRANCISCAN FRIARS HAVE GIVEN HER A GRA
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