Competition for MHC?

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Registered: 03-20-2003
Competition for MHC?
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Wed, 07-13-2005 - 7:27am

In my latest book club magazine there was "A debut novel for fans of Mary Higgins Clark!"

The Nanny Murders
Merry Jones

Zoe Hayes lives in the Queen Village neighborhood of Philadelphia with her five year old adopted daughter Molly. It is an ethnic mixed neighborhood caught between gentrification and stagnation, a place where she knows most of her neighbors and feels secure. That security is destroyed the day Molly plays in the snow and finds a woman's chopped off nail polished finger. The police think that the digit belongs to one of the nannies who have recently disappeared from the neighborhood.

Detective Nick Stiles is in charge of the case and asks Zoe to look at the profile psychologist Beverly Gardner prepared. She believes that “The Nannynapper” is someone who lives or works in the neighborhood. She agrees to help out because as an art therapist for the mentally disturbed and familiarity with the neighborhood, she might have insights that Beverly missed. Little did she know that her decision would gain her a lover, become involved in a hostage situation, chased by a killer, and kidnapped by someone she thought of as a friend.

I must admit I haven't read many of MHC in the last few years because I find them so predictable now and rather repititous. So maybe it's time for a new author.... Anyone else intrigued?


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Wed, 07-13-2005 - 10:07pm
I've kind of drifted away from MHC, too, but just picked up one from my ex- yesterday - Before I Say Good-Bye
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Registered: 06-02-2003
Thu, 07-14-2005 - 9:09am

I have read a few of hers but just stopped since I have been hooked on a few mystery series.