Let Me Whisper in Your Ear (KEY News)

This was my third Mary Jane book and I absolutely loved it. I read it so fast because it was so interesting with different plots going and because her chapters are short. I am one of those people that enjoy books that have short chapters. This book also appealed to me because Mary Jane writes about people in distress, like Laura's father who is a hopeless alcoholic and her new boyfriend who has a drug habit. Nice to know that there are authors out there that keep in touch with the real world and know how to work it into a plot line without demoralizing people because they have human weaknesses. I can't wait to read her other books.

Ms Clark is a producer and writer for CBS News. The news on TV has become a vehicle for advertising; perhaps this is where the author got her idea that advertisements should be generously sprinkled throughout the book. She devotes two pages plugging glass ornaments by Christopher Radko. FAO Schwarz gets three pages. Jaguar and Range Rovers get honorable mention. Various restaurants get plugs. Cookbooks, magazines and TV shows are also well represented. One character is murdered wearing a Pashmina shawl. Liquor is not generic, only Glenlivet, Dom Perignon, Veuve Clicquot and, the common touch, Budweiser. The blurbs go on and on.
The sad thing is that the book is otherwise interesting. The writing, while not of Pulitzer quality, is good. Perhaps in future books Ms Clark will imagine herself working for PBS and can the commercials.

Thirty years ago, two kids sneaked out of their homes to go to Palisades Park and ride the roller coaster. Two kids went in, only one came back. Everyone in the group was sworn to secrecy and they have been living with this nightmare for three decades.
Laura Walsh is an up-and-coming television producer at KEY. She has been working on the network for several years making obituary segments of newsmakers before they die. This helps them to be prepared at a moment's notice and not to have scrounge for material when the newsmaker officially passes away. Laura wants to move ahead and work as a producer for KEY second highest-rated news magazine, Hourglass. In the story there is a murder mystery as well as a subplot involving a dead pool in which the person who predicts which celebrity will die next will win a lot of money.
The story is a bit forced there is no smooth transition from one scene to another. The author tries to hard in creating red herrings as well as planting clues. One things that the deaths in the book is about one thing when in reality is about another. She wants the reader to be suspicious of everyone and being a bit obvious about it. This book will not deter me in trying her other novels (this one is my first), however, Ms. Clark should let the story take its course and not spoil it with unnecessary details.

When I first started this book I liked the short chapters. Then I became completely confused with all the characters that had similar names that were introduced in all the beginning chapters. Sometimes it was alittle difficult to try to think "who was this," now? Anyway, I loved the concept of the mystery, but it became alittle "anti-climatic" towards the end. I would have liked a few more "twists" to the story.
I am not completely ruling out this author, I want to read another one of her books to get a "feel" for her writing.
I do have to say, I did read it in a few short days, which is good for me, I usually take alot longer to read a book with over three hundred pages. This was a fast read!
EMW

Great book series. Very suspenseful.

I'm from Cliffside Park, NJ, and that is why, upon recommendation from a NJ friend, I read this book. Initially, I was not too impressed, but the story improved with some unexpected twists and I ended up enjoying it very much.