Nighttime is My Time by Mary Higgins Clark

Author: Mary Higgins Clark
Genre: Mystery, suspense
Rating: 9

I read this book while I was reading The Great Gatsby.  I tend to be one who enjoys mystery novels, so I read it mostly for fun. I enjoyed reading this book, and I liked the various twists and turns that the book took. The weren't too forced, nor were they outrageous or reached for, which I think can be accredited to the fact that Clark is truly the queen of this field.

The book revolves around Joan, and her graduated class who is back in town for a high school reunion, I would say their 20th or so. At the reunion it comes to pass that there is a picture of a group of girls at lunch, and since graduation they have been dying off in the order that they sat. This was the only sketchy part of the story. I think that once a couple of girls who were friends in high school started to die, someone would have noticed this coincidence, but maybe not.  The list of suspects is as large as the class itself when one reunion attendee, and lunch table sitter goes missing during the reunion. Joan is caught in the middle, as the last girl to be harmed and because her unknown daughter she put up for adoption shortly after graduation is being threatened.

For anyone who enjoys a good mystery, Clark is your lady. I personally need to read more of her books.