Just take my heart by Mary Higgins Clark & Malice by Lisa Jackson

How can I let a summer full of stormy summer evenings go by without reading a Mary Higgins Clark book? Ever since I read "Where are the children" as a teen, I've always picked up her books fairly confident that I'd be interested all the way through. "Just take my heart" was no exception. Consistent, readable. Not much else to say about this one.



Now, Malice, on the other hand, the book I'm reading now ... I have no idea where this could possibly be going. A cop who wakes from a coma and keeps seeing his dead wife decides to leave his life with his new, pregnant wife in New Orleans and travel back to L.A. to solve the mystery of these unexplainable sightings. Is someone trying to gaslight him? Is she dead or alive? What's with these copycat murders of 21-year-old identical twins? I'm not quite halfway through the book yet and I'm not sure I'll make it through or not. It's the large print edition so it's easy on the eyes though, thankfully.

Everyone is beautiful by Katherine Center

I loved this book and would have read it in one sitting if I'd had the time. The heroine of the book is a young mother who has traveled from her lifelong home in Texas with her three small children because he husband has won a scholarship to study music in Boston. On her first day in her new city, another mom in the park asks her when her baby is due. This question sets off the course of events that make up this very readable novel. Katherine Center is a graduate of Vassar College where she won the Vassar College Fiction Prize. You can visit her website at www.katherinecenter.com. Good book!