Anne Damour Books

In the second novel in the UNDER SUSPICION series, Laurie and her crew re- investigate the mysterious disappearance of a bride.

Laurie Moran's professional life is a success. Her television show Under Suspicion is a hit, both in the ratings and its record of solving cold cases. But her romantic break from former host Alex Buckley has left her with on-air talent she can't stand -- Ryan Nichols -- and a sense of loneliness, despite her loving family. Now Ryan has suggested a new case. Three years ago, Virginia Wakeling, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, was found dead in the snow after being thrown from the museum's roof on the night of its most celebrated fundraiser, the Met Gala. The leading suspect then and now is her much younger boyfriend and personal trainer, Ivan Gray. Ivan runs a trendy, successful boutique gym called Punch -- a business funded in no small part by the late Virginia -- which happens to be the gym Ryan frequents. Laurie's skepticism about the case is upended by a tip from her father's NYPD connection, and soon Laurie realizes there are a bevy of suspects, including members of Virginia's trusted inner circle. As the Under Suspicion crew pries into the lives of a super wealthy real estate family with secrets to hide, danger mounts for several witnesses -- and for Laurie

S’il n’avait pas rencontré la belle et courageuse Martha, George Washington serait-il devenu un héros de la guerre d’Indépendance et le premier président des États-Unis ? Derrière chaque homme célèbre se cache une femme qui l’aime et le soutient, et la jeune veuve ira jusqu’à traverser les lignes ennemies pour le rejoindre. Avant de devenir la reine du suspense, Mary Higgins Clark s’est passionnée pour l’histoire de son pays. Dans cette biographie romancée, qui est aussi son premier livre, elle brosse le magnifique portrait d’une femme méconnue, et révèle la profonde humanité d’un des pères fondateurs de l’Amérique.

From Michael Cunningham, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Hours, comes this widely praised novel of two boyhood friends: Jonathan, lonely, introspective, and unsure of himself; and Bobby, hip, dark, and inarticulate. In New York after college, Bobby moves in with Jonathan and his roommate, Clare, a veteran of the city's erotic wars. Bobby and Clare fall in love, scuttling the plans of Jonathan, who is gay, to father Clare's child. Then, when Clare and Bobby have a baby, the three move to a small house upstate to raise "their" child together and, with an odd friend, Alice, create a new kind of family. A Home at the End of the World masterfully depicts the charged, fragile relationships of urban life today.

A dark family secret puts the lives of two sisters in grave danger Hannah Connelly is plunged into a nightmare when she learns that Connelly Fine Antique Reproductions, the family business founded by her grandfather, has been levelled by a huge explosion. The ashes reveal a startling and grisly discovery. Could the explosion have been deliberately set? And what was Kate, Hannah's sister and a highflyer in an accounting firm, doing in the building in the middle of the night? With Kate lying in a coma in hospital, it is now down to Hannah to discover what truly happened. But little does she know that someone will do anything they can to prevent Kate regaining consciousness. Will Hannah find out the truth before that person kills to save himself?

It's been 22 years since Ellie Cavanaugh's testimony against 19-year-old Rob Westerfield convicted him of the murder of her sister. Now, Rob is up for parole. Ellie returns home to write a book, But she soon uncovers horrifying facts about her sister's murder.

In this riveting thriller from Queen of Suspense and #1 New York Times bestselling writer Mary Higgins Clark brilliantly weaves the mystery of twin telepathy into a mother's search for a kidnapped child, presumed dead.When Margaret and Steve Frawley come home to Connecticut from a black-tie dinner in New York, their three-year-old twins, Kathy and Kelly, are gone. The police found the babysitter unconscious, and a ransom note from the Pied Piper demands eight million dollars. Steve's global investment firm puts up the money, but when they go to retrieve the twins, only Kelly is in the car. The dead driver's suicide note says he inadvertently killed Kathy.At the memorial, Kelly tugs Margaret's arm and says: Mommy, Kathy is very scared of that lady. She wants to come home right now. At first, only Margaret believes that the twins are communicating and that Kathy is still alive. But as Kelly's warnings become increasingly specific and alarming, FBI agents set out on a desperate search.

Mary Higgins Clark, the New York Times bestselling Queen of Suspense shares another story filled with intrigue and mystery. When Jenny MacPartland meets the man of her dreams while working in a New York art gallery, she’s ecstatic. Painter Erich Krueger—whose exquisite landscapes are making him a huge success—is handsome, sensitive...and utterly in love with her. They marry quickly and Jenny plans a loving home on Erich’s vast Minnesota farm. But lonely days and eerie nights strain her nerves to the breaking point and test her sanity. Caught in a whirlpool of shattering events, Jenny soon unearths a past more terrifying than she dares imagine...tragic secrets that threaten her marriage, her children, her life.

16 nouvelles inédites par les maîtres du suspense américain.

Young reporter Meghan Collins is horrified to realise that the face of a street mugging victim is identical to her own - She is then plunged into a nightmare as she struggled to uncover the reasons behind the mystery.

From the Queen of Suspense and #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a thrilling mystery aboard a luxurious but deadly cruise. Fleeing the disastrous and humiliating last-minute arrest of her fiancé on the eve of their wedding, Celia, an expert on gems and jewelry, is hoping to escape from reality on a glamorous cruise ship. But it is not to be. On board in the most luxurious suite is the elderly and world-famous Lady Emily Harworth. Immensely wealthy, Lady Em is the owner of a priceless emerald necklace that she intends to leave to the Smithsonian on her death. Three days later Lady Em is found dead—and the necklace is missing. Is it the work of her apparently devoted secretary, or her lawyer-executor, both of whom she had invited on board for the cruise? Celia, with the help of her new friends Willy and Alvirah Meehan—who are splurging on their wedding anniversary—sets out to find who the killer is, not realizing that she may have put a target on her back.

The latest suspense-filled thriller from the New York Timesbestselling author.

An up-to-the-minute dissection of the mores of child-rearing, marriage, adultery, and assisted suicide, 'Mother's Milk' is a complex family portrait that examines the shifting allegiances between mothers, sons and husbands.

The brand new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark, America's undisputed Queen of Suspense

A desperate mother, her missing child, and a stolen chalice set the stage for a gripping Christmas tale. In this suspenseful narrative, beloved characters Alvirah, a lottery winner turned amateur sleuth, and her husband Willy, navigate a mystery that tests Alvirah's deductive skills and Willy's common sense. The story opens with a young woman leaving her newborn on a church rectory doorstep while a man inside steals a precious chalice adorned with a diamond. Both the baby and the chalice vanish without a trace. Fast forward seven years, just before Christmas, and Alvirah and Willy are helping Willy's sister Cordelia, a nun who runs a thrift shop and after-school shelter for local children, prepare for a Christmas pageant. The shelter's future is in jeopardy as the city condemns the building, and plans to relocate to a nearby brownstone are complicated when it is revealed that the property has been willed to a young couple living there. Alvirah suspects the couple are con artists and embarks on a quest to uncover the truth, intertwining the fates of the missing child and the stolen chalice. This tale promises to be a delightful Christmas gift for readers.

While working on a television series that will focus on a woman senator who is running for vice-president, journalist Pat Traymore discovers terrible secrets that threaten to destroy the candidate's reputation

When Kay Lansing marries wealthy widower Peter Carrington, she is well aware of the rumours surrounding the mysterious death of Peter's first wife Grace, who was found floating in the family pool ten years ago, pregnant at the time. Kay also discovers that Peter is a chronic sleepwalker who suffers from periodic nightmares. When the police arrive at her doorstep with a warrant for Peter's arrest in connection with another murder - that of a woman Peter had escorted to a high school senior prom twenty-two years ago - Kay begins to fear that she has married a sleepwalking murderer, and she resolves to find out the truth behind the puzzling deaths. But are the two deaths linked? And why does a melody that Kay cannot identify keep playing in her head every time she approaches the family chapel?

What happens when a young woman is accidentally caught up in a dangerous murder investigation, having merely been in the wrong place at the wrong time? Lacey Farrell, a rising star on the Manhattan real estate scene, is witness to a murder - and to the final words of the victim. The dying woman is convinced her attacker was after her dead daughter's journal, which Lacey gives to the police, but not before making a copy for herself. It's an impulse that later proves nearly fatal. Placed in the witness protection programme and sent to live in Minneapolis, Lacey must assume a fake identity, at least until the killer can be brought to trial. There she meets Tom Lynch, a radio talk-show host whom she tentatively begins to date - until the strain of her deception makes her break it off. Then she discovers the killer has traced her whereabouts. Armed with nothing more than her own courage and clues from the journal, Lacey heads back to New York determined to uncover who is behind the deaths of the two women...before she is the next casualty.

A young woman probing into the mysterious circumstances of her husband's death receives a message from a medium claiming to be his channel in Mary Higgins Clark's #1 bestselling thriller, Before I Say Goodbye. When Nell MacDermott learns that her husband, architect Adam Cauliff, and three of his business associates have died in an explosion of his new cabin cruiser, she is not only devastated but wracked with guilt. The last time she saw Adam, they had a bitter quarrel over her plan to run for the congressional seat long held by her grandfather; she had told him not to come home. As the investigation into the boat's explosion proceeds, Nell learns that it was not an accident but a bomb. Despite her skepticism, Nell is swayed by her great-aunt Gert, a believer in psychic powers, to see a medium claiming to be Adam's channel. While trying to unravel the threads of Adam's past and his violent end, Nell consults the medium, who transmits messages to her with instructions from Adam. The story reaches a powerful climax in Nell's final encounter with the medium, in which she learns the truth about the explosion—truth she can't be allowed to live and tell.

In a novel of human progress and social decline, three characters are seen in three different eras: the Industrial Revolution; the 21st century and 150 years into the future as the poet Walt Whitman presides over each episode.

The New York Times bestseller that Nelson DeMille said "will keep...readers entranced and entertained from cover to cover." Savvy young Los Angeles P.I. Regan Reilly faces an unusual challenge when she gets an urgent call from Lilac Weldon, owner -- with her two hippie brothers -- of the run-down California winery Altered States. Lilac asks Regan to find her actress daughter, Whitney, AKA "Freshness," in time to attend the wedding of Lilac's wealthy aunt Lucretia Standish, a 93-year-old silent-film star. The Weldons have learned from a secret source that each family member will receive a gift of $2 million from Lucretia -- but only if they all attend. Lucretia's bridegroom, a 46-year-old con man and former actor, knows he must keep Whitney away; they have met before and she is wise to his game. How Regan foils his plot makes for an exciting climax to this comic suspense novel, filled with Carol Higgins Clark's inimitable characters.

L'appartement de Susan et Dennis est le port d'attache d'un groupe d'amis, tous originaires du Middle West, venus s'installer à New York dans les années 80 avec des rêves de gosses. Quatre d'entre eux forment un orchestre de rock, auteur d'un unique album. En arrivant, tous pensaient que la ville et la vie ne détruiraient pas leur solidarité et ils distribuaient des doubles des clés de l'appartement à quiconque avait besoin d'un toit. Un jour, Alice Ellis décida d'aller arroser les plantes en l'absence de Susan, partie seule en vacances. Tout est si calme qu'elle a du mal à réaliser que Dennis et Craig ne sont pas simplement endormis dans les fauteuils du salon, mais morts, une balle dans la tête. Jane Smiley a écrit un suspense passionnant mais aussi, comme dans ses autres livres, elle témoigne avec talent des haines, des secrets et des blessures qui renforcent la solitude de chacun.

Entre Paris et Amsterdam, dans le train qui l'emmène à l'enterrement de Joseph, Kitty se souvient de la passion qui l'a unie à cet homme dix ans auparavant... A la fin des années quatre-vingt, dans une librairie new-yorkaise, Kitty Jacobs rencontre Joseph Kruger. Elle a trente-deux ans, lui soixante. Délicate et sensible, elle aspire à écrire ; lui est un célèbre dramaturge juif viennois que l'on a accueilli comme le nouveau Kafka. Il brave toutes les convenances, se montre arrogant, impatient, cynique, mais dégage un tel magnétisme que Kitty, subjuguée, se donnera à lui. Durant des semaines où ils se gorgeront de nourriture, d'alcool et de sexe, Joseph offrira à Kitty l'histoire de sa vie. Amsterdam, la Palestine, Paris, sa famille déportée, la clandestinité. Et les femmes, innombrables, son dernier refuge dans un monde où il n'a plus rien à perdre, sauf, peut-être, Kitty... Huis clos servi par une écriture obsédante, Dernier refuge avant la nuit explore la nature du désir, les limites de la civilité, de la morale et pose une douloureuse question : Quel est le prix à payer pour les survivants de la barbarie ?