If You Like Mary Higgins Clark

For over three decades, Mary Higgins Clark has been the benchmark for the Suspense genre, writing fast-paced, intricately-plotted, compelling stories of women and children in jeopardy, but told without sex, violence, or strong language. Read all of books by this author? Below are some titles to tide you over until her next release!
 

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1. After sundown: a novel

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Author:
Howard, Linda, 1950-
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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Danger brings together two guarded hearts in a battle for survival in this irresistible story from New York Times bestselling authors Linda Howard and Linda Jones.

Sela Gordon, the shy owner of a Tennessee general store, finds safety in solitude. But if anyone can pierce her protective shell it's the handsome, mysterious ex-military man living alone in the wilds of Cove Mountain. For two years, he's kept his distance—until

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2. Before she disappeared: a novel

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Author:
Gardner, Lisa
Series:
Frankie Elkin novels volume 1.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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NEXT IN SERIES: ONE STEP TOO FAR
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"A propulsive thriller featuring an ordinary woman who will stop at nothing to find the missing people that the rest of the world has forgtten ... Frankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman, a recovering alcoholic with more regrets than belongings. But she spends her life doing what no one else will--searching for missing people the world has stopped looking for. When the police have given up, when the public no longer remembers, when the media...

3. The better sister: a novel

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Author:
Burke, Alafair
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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"Fourteen years before the present day of this ... domestic thriller, ... Chloe Taylor helped her brother-in-law Adam Macintosh defeat her rebellious older sister Nicky in their custody battle over the couple's two-year-old son Ethan. Four years later, Chloe married Adam and became Ethan's stepmother. Now, Nicky lives alone in Ohio, selling jewelry on Etsy, while 41-year-old Chloe lives with 47-year-old Adam and 16-year-old Ethan in New York City,...

4. The Black Swan of Paris

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Author:
Robards, Karen
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3.8 stars
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"A world at war. A beautiful young star. A mission no one expected. Paris, 1944. Celebrated singer Genevieve Dumont is both a star and a smokescreen. An unwilling darling of the Nazis, the chanteuse's position of privilege allows her to go undetected as an ally to the resistance. When her estranged mother, Lillian de Rocheford, is captured by Nazis, Genevieve knows it won't be long before the Gestapo succeeds in torturing information out of Lillian...

5. Blind tiger

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Author:
Brown, Sandra, 1948-
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3.8 stars
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"Thatcher Hutton, a war-weary soldier on the way back to his cowboy life, jumps from a moving freight train to avoid trouble . . . and lands in more than he bargained for."--

6. Close up

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Author:
Quick, Amanda
Series:
Burning Cove, California volume 4.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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FIRST IN SERIES: THE GIRL WHO KNEW TOO MUCH
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"Vivian Brazier never thought life as an art photographer would include shooting headshots for aspiring male actors or nightly wake-up calls to snap photos of grisly crime scenes ... After shooting crime scene photos of a famous actress--the latest victim of the murderer the press has dubbed the 'Dagger Killer'--Vivian notices eerie similarities to the crime scenes of previous Dagger Killer victims, details that only another photographer would have...

7. Cul-de-sac: a novel

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Author:
Fielding, Joy
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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"A shooting lays bare the secrets harbored by five families in a sleepy suburban cul-de-sac in this riveting psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of All the Wrong Places"--

8. False witness

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Author:
Slaughter, Karin, 1971-
Average Rating:
3.8 stars
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"Leigh Collier has worked hard to build what looks like a normal life. She's an up-and-coming defense attorney at a prestigious law firm in Atlanta, would do anything for her sixteen-year-old daughter Maddy, and is managing to successfully coparent through a pandemic after an amicable separation from her husband Walter. But Leigh's ordinary life masks a childhood no one should have to endure ... a childhood tarnished by secrets, broken by betrayal,...

9. The goodbye man

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Author:
Deaver, Jeffery
Series:
Colter Shaw novels volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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FIRST IN SERIES: THE NEVER GAME
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"In the wilderness of Washington State, expert tracker Colter Shaw has located two young men accused of a terrible hate crime. But when his pursuit takes a shocking and tragic turn, Shaw becomes desperate to discover what went so horribly wrong and if he is to blame. Shaw's search for answers leads him to a shadowy organization that bills itself as a grief support group. But is it truly it a community that consoles the bereaved? Or a dangerous cult...

10. High stakes

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Author:
Johansen, Iris
Average Rating:
5 stars
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"Logan Tanner lives the exhilarating life of a professional gambler, taking risks with nerves of steel. From casinos in Macau to Monte Carlo to Milan, he's racked up a fortune and become a living legend. But all the glitz and glamour hide a dark and violent past as an extractor -- a world that comes rushing back to him when the beautiful and innocent Lara Balkon enters his life. Soon Logan is drawn into the conflict between tow Russian mafia bosses...

11. Legacy

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Author:
Roberts, Nora
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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Adrian Rizzo was seven when she met her father for the first time. That was the day he nearly killed her - before her mother, Lina, stepped in. Soon after, Adrian was dropped off at her grandparents' house in Maryland, where she spent a long summer drinking lemonade, playing with dogs, making a new best friend - and developing the stirrings of a crush on her friend's ten year-old brother. Lina, meanwhile, traveled the country promoting her fitness...

12. Quantum

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Author:
Cornwell, Patricia Daniels
Series:
Captain Chase novels volume 1.
Average Rating:
2.1 stars
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NEXT IN SERIES: SPIN
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"International bestselling author Cornwell delivers pulse-pounding thrills in a series featuring a brilliant and unusual new heroine, cutting-edge cybertechnology, and stakes that are astronomically high."--

13. A simple murder: a Kate Burkholder short story collection

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Author:
Castillo, Linda
Series:
Kate Burkholder thrillers
Average Rating:
3.5 stars
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Cary Regional - Mystery
CASTILLO
Duraleigh Road - Mystery
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East Regional - Mystery has 2
CASTILLO
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Features six original short stories starring whip-smart chief of police, Kate Burkholder.