Nobody Knows (KEY News, 5) - Softcover

Clark, Mary Jane

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1250100399 ISBN 13: 9781250100399

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2003

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Review:

Network correspondent Cassie Sheridan, a rising star at KEY's Washington bureau, is exiled to the Miami office after her ambitions overpower her common sense and she identifies a victim of the Clown Rapist as the daughter of the head of the FBI. Not only is her career on the skids, but her private life's also a mess, and meanwhile, there's nothing more newsworthy happening than a hurricane warning on Florida's west coast. Then an 11-year-old boy with a metal detector discovers the remains of a dead porn star on a Siesta Key beach. She's wearing a ruby ring that's too tempting a treasure to turn over to the police, but what young Vincent Bayler doesn't know is that it's also an item that at least one upstanding local citizen would do anything to keep from being traced back to him--including kidnapping Vincent's seriously ill brother to convince him to return the ring, and getting Cassie off his trail--permanently. This is a well-crafted but predictable thriller by Clark, whose fictional network (and its anything-for-a-story reporters) couldn't possibly bear more than a fleeting and coincidental resemblance to CBS, where she's been a writer and producer for many years--or could it? --Jane Adams

From the Inside Flap:

Non-stop Praise For Mary Jane Clark "Nobody Knows""As a hurricane approaches and a dead woman's hand washes ashore, Cassie pieces together a bizarre puzzle with pieces tying back to the serial rapist."-"Booklist""Clear, flowing prose...[Clark] has an insider's expertise that adds to the novel's verisimilitude...[Clark] makes ample use of her insider credentials and story lines right out of the headlines...[a] well-crafted page turner."-"HeraldTribune.com""An enjoyable read."-"Brazosport Facts" (Brazos, TX)"Close To You""Smooth is the word for this expert thriller...moving along effortlessly and unhurriedly, acquiring characters and subplots as it goes, always focusing on the climax the reader knows will come when the killer finally makes his move...Clark's tale deliver the goods...Clark's depiction of the stalkers who plague celebrities disturbs and convinces, and her characters come alive on the page: criminal, sick, genuinely evil, or simply flawed and very human."--"Publishers Weekly" "An eerie story [with] a satisfying ending."-"-Providence Journal ""Gave me chills right from Chapter One...This really is 'behind the camera'-Mary Jane Clark gets the details right."-Vicky Mabrey, Correspondent, "Sixty Minutes II""[An] expert tale...delivers the goods."--"Publishers Weekly" "Mary Jane Clark nails it; with every page my heart raced faster."--Gretchen Carlson, Anchor, "CBS Saturday Show""Clark's story retains its suspense throughout."-"-Newark Star-Ledger" "Mary Jane Clark has brought home the reality that being on television is not always so glamorous: Sometimes it can be downright terrifying!"--Elizabeth Kaledin, Correspondent, "CBS Evening News with Dan Rather" "A frightening-andfirsthand-look at the darker side of celebrity."--"Sun Herald" (Colusa, CA)"Let Me Whisper in Your Ear""A suspense-charged, absorbing tale of treachery, troubled psyches, and flawed relationships that leaps beyond romantic suspense into the heart's darkest realms...Kept me guessing right up until the final jolting betrayal" --Perri O'Shaughnessy, author of "Unfit to Practice""Mary Jane Clark keeps the reader on the edge of [his or her] seat in "Let Me Whisper in Your Ear," The combination of mind-dazzling suspense and nostalgia for the glory days of Palisades Park is a heady one. Lovers of great romantic mysteries will surely want to read the other novels of Ms. Clark."-"Romantic Times""Do You Promise Not To Tell?""Clark, who in real life is a writer and producer for CBS News, understands how to hang on to her audience. Her characters are the sorts with whom many readers identify. Her first book, Do You Want To Know A Secret?, had pluses. It was well told; its characters and plot were compelling. But Promise is stronger still...it is a fun read with some nifty twists." --"USA Today""The suspense never flags, and the killer's identity remains a secret long into the tale...for those who can't get enough of the competitively backbiting world of network news, this novel offers entertaining verisimilitude."--"Publishers Weekly""In news as in life, luck often counts as much as hard work. Clark captures the spirit of an enterprising reporter who relies on both to 'get' the story of her life."--Deborah Norville, anchor, "Inside Edition""Do You Want To Know A Secret?""Clark...spins a tightly knit whodunit with engaging characters and a suspenseful plot." --"Publishers Weekly""The secret is out: Mary Jane Clark is one of the most exciting novels in America today. Her debut thriller takes us on a suspense-filled insider's tour of the corridors of power in politics and journalism where everybody's got a secret, everybody wants a scoop-and now somebody has murder in mind. Do You Want to Know A Secret? is an unabashed edge-of-the-seat, they-don't-write-'em-like-that-anymore, unplug-the-phone-and-disconnect-the-TV page-turning stunner!"--Dan Rather""Do You Want to Know A Secret?" is a brilliantly structured thriller. The secrets and surprises just keep coming and make perfect sense in the TV media world that Mary Jane Clark has absolutely nailed."--Janet Evanovich, author of" To the Nines""Secrets...ambition...intrigue...Mary Jane Clark knowingly seduces you in this intensely suspenseful behind-the-media-scenes thriller."--Joan Rivers

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1250100399
• ISBN 13: 9781250100399
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352