Nighttime Is My Time: A Novel

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From the "Queen of Suspense," Mary Higgins Clark, comes a riveting tale of suspense, secrets and revenge.

Historian Jean Sheridan returns to Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York, excited about her twenty-year high-school reunion at Stonecroft Academy. But a dear friend of hers soon becomes the fifth woman in the class to meet a sudden, mysterious end. Then Jean receives a taunting fax about a child she gave up for adoption, whose existence she had kept a secret but whose life may now be in danger. For present at the reunion is The Owl, a murderer on a mission of vengeance against women who once humiliated him...and Jean is his final intended victim.

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"The definition of an owl had always pleased him: a night bird of prey...sharp talons and soft plumage which permits noiseless flight...applied figuratively to a person of nocturnal habits. 'I am The Owl,' he would whisper to himself after he had selected his prey, 'and nighttime is my time.'"

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No mystery to this novel.......2007-05-16

My, my, the Queen of Suspense certainly is slipping. I had the opportunity to read two of Ms. Clark's novels within a span of 15 days - "Two little girls in Blue" and "Nighttime is my time". Both of them were huge disappointments, although they helped me pass the time during my flights.

Ms. Clark had built her reputation and earned my interest in her earlier books by creating in each novel, a strong and slightly unique plot, characters who all subtly hint at sinister motives, a smart and strong-willed leading woman whose strength of character shines through out the story, a romance gradually made to progress through the plot twists and turns, the goings-on narrated from the unknown perpetrator's point of view and a grand finale where the evil is revealed and the good once and for all vanquishes the evil.

Now for "Nighttime is My Time":
1. It has what passes for a plot - a former tormented student killing off his/ her tormentors one by one at a high school reunion. Wow, never in a million years would I have imagined that plot for a mystery novel.
2. In an effort to keep us guessing, Ms. Clark has all characters at the reunion hint, nay, shout their sinister motives from roof-tops throughout the pages of the novel. The reason for this, I can't help but think, is because Ms. Clark hadn't decided until the last chapter whom the killer was going to be and to cover her bases built up everyone to be one... you know, just in case.
3. All that Ms. Clark lets the readers know of the leading lady is that she comes from a broken home, had given up a baby for adoption after high school, and now is a successful writer who is very very sad and always sad, never happy, in tears at times... in fact, I can't remember a single page where she was happy and smiling and sure about herself and her success except perhaps in the last two pages. Really Ms. Clark, you can't think of one single reason why this woman should be happy now - she made the toughest decision any woman can make at the most difficult point in her life and has succeeded despite or because of it, and all she can feel is sadness?
4. The premise for romance is very feeble and is limited to two cups of tea, two club sandwiches and some 5 minutes of soul-baring amid swirling doubts of "is he or isn't he" ...the killer, that is.
5. Now the narration from the owl's point of view is what dominates the novel and gets pretty tiresome pretty fast. A lot of pages devoted to convey absolutely nothing. I recommend skipping these pages. Another confirmation of my nagging suspicion that Ms. Clark hadn't decided on the identity of the killer yet.
6. The grand finale is over in a rush and the only information I was eager to get to was whom had Ms. Clark decided to be the killer, in that instant she started writing the paragraph that reveals him.

All in all, I would say the re-runs of "Murder, She Wrote" and "Matlock" easily trump the last two novels I read of Ms. Clark's.

Creepy Killer Thriller.......2007-02-23

One by one the once large group of girls began to die in the order of the way they had always sat at lunch. He had killed the first five but had yet to kill the two now adult women, Laura and Jean. An author and history professor, Dr. Jean Sheridan, received an invitation to attend her twentieth year high school reunion and receive a special honoree degree for her success. When her friend disappeared during their visit at the reunion Jean became worried. Meanwhile someone had been faxing her messages threatening her daughter Lilly that she had given up for adoption. Jean and her boyfriend were to be married when he died a few days before his graduation leaving her pregnant with their unborn child. After Laura had been missing for several days another honoree disappeared. The Owl, as the serial called himself, captured Laura and kidnapped Meredith, which was the name the adoptive parents gave Lilly, and then Jean disappeared. A school journalist had been covering the reunion discovered where they were being held and who "The Owl" really was. When the cops arrived Gordon Amory, the Owl and one of the honorees, shot himself in the head. He had killed the other missing honoree because he had caught on to his plan. The deaths of the five women occurred because they had once picked on him. I enjoyed the book and would recommend it to anyone who likes horror and thriller stories.
The main reason I enjoyed the story was the author had written the book so that along with Jean's point of view you saw the story through the serial killer and other honorees eyes. While you heard the serial killer describe himself you would never be told which of the five male honorees the killer was. I found it interesting when at one point "The Owl" was watching a woman he was planning to kill while he was in her home. He watched her every day and began to remember her schedule and then one day killed her because she had picked on him once in school. Every few chapters you would see through Laura's eyes and once she described her captor. Laura would complain how uncomfortable she was tied down in a room so that she couldn't move her arms or legs. Her captor would not allow her to use his name and left her in a room alone all day with little food. The boy who was covering the story for his paper would also tell his part. He would sneak around and listen in on the honorees conversations and on his own was able to solve where everyone was and who the threat was.
I found that the characters were very realistic. As the author introduced the successful honoree she would describe how they had been in high school. I found it realistic because no one acts like a teenager twenty years after graduation. Jean had been a quiet girl who wasn't a cheerleader and had parents that would often argue in public. Even after the humiliation of her parents' arguments Jean held her head high and was able to develop from a shy teenager into a beautiful author and history professor. Gordon Amory had been very nerdy and disliked but Jean had sympathized with him. As an adult he owned several television channels and ran the shows but spent his money on a plastic surgeon to make him a handsome man. Mark, an honoree and her future husband, had been a quiet kid who was disliked by his own parents. His mother had always preferred his brother, Dennis, and along with blaming Mark for Dennis's death she had wished that he had died instead. Mark was able to live through the pain of longing for his parents love and become a psychiatrist with his own show that helped adolescents with their problems.
The author was often twisting the story by describing something about the killer and then comparing it to an honoree. I found it interesting when the killer said that he had to rent a car because he had used his own in one of his killings so he rented a black sedan. Later the author described how Mark had rented a car for his stay in town. Once the killer who had kidnapped Laura had a call made to Jean in Laura's voice that told her that she was okay but then the author said that one of the honorees, a comedian, specialized in mimicking people. Once the killer described how he once had asked Laura to a dance and she had turned him down. When the honorees were trying to find who would kidnap Laura the comedian honoree mentioned that Jack Emerson, an honoree, had a framed picture of Laura in his office.
I found the book very interesting and consider it one of Mary Higgins Clark's best novels. The authors unique formatting of the chapters was very unique and caught my eye. The characters were totally realistic and original and the puzzling hints to the identity of the killer were only a few of the reasons I enjoyed this novel. I would recommend this book to mainly teenage or adult women because I think they would find it more interesting.
M.Becouvarakis

Poor writing, formulaic, insults reader's intelligence.......2006-12-22

This was my first MH Clark book. I read a lot and enjoy most genres, including suspense. There are so many excellent writers today that I can't imagine reading another of hers. I imagine this as the kind of novel an artificial-intelligence computer program could generate when fed a standard formula. Dialogue was stiff, wordy and unnatural; even the teenagers speak careful, precise sentences. The story and characters were highly contrived, implausible and irritating. There's no attempt at thoughtful pacing: page after page spent on dull events while the most climatic events, including the ending, get a few sentences. There's so much better out there, folks; break out of the rut of buying the same hack author over and over and give a new writer, and yourself, a chance.

A Real Winner!.......2006-08-06

I enjoyed Night Time is My Time by Mary Higgins Clark
tremendously.It's the best mystery I've ever read.

Stonecroft is having it's twentieth year reunion. The
trouble is there's a murderer on the loose, and everyone is a suspect.

I love this book and gave it 5 stars:)

Be Careful Who You Pick On; Can Be Dangerous........2006-08-01

This fast-moving story is a classic case of revenge for past hurts. It revolves around a 20th reunion of the Stonecraft Academy in New York. An owl is a bird of prey; a night owl is a person of nocturnal habits, not all are dangerous. This Owl, however, has an agenda for murder and won't quit until he tops it off with a mother/daughter pair which he felt should have been his family.

Some of the honorees arrived feeling uneasy, none were happy to be there except for the Owl. "I am the Owl and nighttime is my time." Five female classmates, all prominent in their careers, had already been killed; the Hollywood agent recently. From different towns, they came -- a glamorous t.v. personality, a playwright who had been the class nerd, a talk-show celebrity, a media mogul, a historian/college teacher, and a bitter comedian. He had raged inside for twenty years about his childhood of rejection. One of them is a serial killer.

At the school, they'd endured four bitter unhappy years and took their frustrations out on this one in particular. He fought back directly and through the years. He would complete his mission when they gathered for the class reunion. The playwright got his repressed revenge by basing his characters on these old classmates who he regarded as his tormentors. He didn't need to go beyond that.

Jean Sheridan had kept a secret for all these years which gnawed at her integrity, as she could not face the shame of being an unwed mother -- now called 'single mom' (birth notices in the local papers lists them now, without prejudice or propriety). She had received an anonymous fax with an implied threat about the adoption of her daughter, now grown. I have yet to attend a class reunion (high school or college), as we all change mostly for the better as we excel at maturing and various aspects of life. We're not the adolescents who had been picked on, rejected, or ignored by the class favorites. We learn to put on a public face and not let strangers get too close.

School friends drift apart and no longer have the same interests. At public gatherings, we put on a facade of status; even killers fool their prey into thinking they are normal. One of these had a complete facial makeover, like a serial killer in Nashville. He looked good, but he was bad through and through. Not withstanding the facts, Jean is unaware that one of the distinguished men present is the Owl, on a mission of vengeance against those 'girls' who had mocked and humiliated him. He planned another kind of reunion between Jean and her West Point cadet daughter, before he killed them. He was not able to leave his usual calling card, pewter owls, as this time his murderous rage was not successful and he had to terminate himself with a mask on. Adverse circumstances can sometimes turn into good fortune and future happiness in novels of Ms. Clark. This turned out to be another 'first love' left unfulfilled; well, partially. He'll always be in my heart, forever and a day.

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Early Nora Roberts' novels are my favorites

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Early Nora Roberts' novels are my favorites.......2007-09-24

The MacGregor Brides (Macgregors Series) Thank goodness the early Nora Roberts' novels are being republished. They are warm and funny stories about people that you learn to love. The MacGregor series is comfortable. It is like sharing the evening with old friends.

Romance Plus.......2007-09-09

This book was my introduction to the MacGregor Family. I instantly fell in love with every single one of them; so much so that I am now going back to the beginning and reading "Rebellion" to fully understand the how and why of the MacGregor clan. In "Brides," Nora Roberts takes us through the romantic journey and subsequent pairings of the three MacGregor granddaughters - Laura (the attorney) and the man grandpa hired to keep the home the cousins shared security-tight, Royce Cameron, Gwendolyn (the doctor), matched by grandpa with writer, Branson McGuire, and Julia (the real estate mogul), fighting all the way to the altar with builder/contractor, Cullum Murdoch, and, on this one, a two-fisted match made unknowingly not only by Daniel, but Cullum's own father, Michael, as well. Daniel MacGregor, Sr., begins each story with his memoirs as to the manner in which he had a working hand in each matching. The chosen three men were strong and handsome with exemplary values and great genes (according to the MacGregor)! Even though each story was quite similar where boy pursues girl, girl puts up a fight and finally gives in, hook, line and sinker, the stories are told in a captivating and interesting manner so that even the most unsympathetic romance reader has no choice but to delve into the lives of this fabulous family. I have read earlier romance books by Nora and felt they were just your typical soap-opera, happy ending stories, however, I believe the MacGregors themselves give the romance stories the strength and attention that encourages the reader to want to be a part of the family, albeit the amorous and idealistic worlds that only fiction can unfurl. I thoroughly enjoyed the stories and look forward to future MacGregor adventures.

very good book.......2007-08-28

This book is part of A series about the MacGregor family. I loved every single one of them.

Dainiel does it again........2007-08-23

This,like every other book in The MacGregor series, is great. I think Nora is going to have to start into the Greatgrandchildren. I know Daniel can't live for ever but she could start it with him looking down on his family with all his cute comments. I have read every book in that series and go back and read them again every year or so.

Same story, told three times.......2007-08-09

Nora Roberts tells essentially the same story three times here. A beautiful, accomplished, strong-willed young woman meets a handsome, successful, determined young man and they clash, before discovering that they have the hots for each other. It's as simple as that. In fact, Ms. Roberts does the same in all her books, changing the names, occupations and locale. And she does it better than just about anyone.

There's always a scene in which they "plunder." She actually uses that verb a lot. I try to imagine it, and it always feels a little vague. There's plundering in all three stories of this book.

The real talent is in the creation of the atmosphere. Nora Roberts is really good at that, and it shows here as in her other works. One can read the books for that alone. She takes the reader on a journey, and isn't that why we read fiction?

I give this 4 stars for the sense of place. I'd give it five stars if the plundering were a little more of a surprise.

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This is the long-awaited tenth-anniversary edition of Dr. Chamberlain's 1988 classic, Babies Remember Birth. In paperback format and enriched with a new last chapter, this book has the potential to revolutionize the way we look at babies, both before and after birth. Part I is filled with "user-friendly" information about the mind and abilities of newborns, as well as a thorough look at their development before birth. Parts II and III present evidence that babies do remember birth and are very much aware of the people around them at that time. Dr. Chamberlain writes compellingly about the newborn's sensitivity, awareness, and vulnerability. He emphasizes the importance and power of the infant-and-parent connection during pregnancy and after birth. When the information in this book becomes common knowledge, we will look at our children with new respect and understanding.

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The Leading source on good scientific mind of the infant. .......2007-01-10

This man has contributed hugely for 30 years. He should be knighted.

all parents should read.......2002-07-02

in the indian ancient epic "mahabharatha", there comes an incident that "abhimanyu" son of arjuna learnt while from his mother's womb, when his mother is hearing a conversation between lord krishna and five pandavas. krishna is teaching how to break the trap of "badmavyug", a type of trap set in the war to catch and kill the brave warriors who cannot be defeated by any other means. abhimanyu learns from his mothers womb how to get inside the trap, but unfortunately, her mother gets up and goes away, while krishna explaining how to come out of the trap. abhimanyu learnt the art of getting in but never knows how to come out. this resulted in his fate, later in the war, that he was trapped, caught and killed by the enemies. i thought these types of 'learning from the womb' are myths. but after reading this book, it makes some sense that there are immense truth in these old epics.

Interesting but limited.......2001-06-25

Despite many facts updating Thomas Verny's The Secret Life of the Unborn Child, an expectant parent finishes this book saying,"So what?" All the data does really not provide a useful direction for its evidence that the fetus is capable of learning. However, I found that my two children vastly benefitted from the prenatal enrichment system described by Dr. Sarah Brewer in her recent book, Super Baby, with its compelling documentation for the product called BabyPlus (see www.babyplus.com), which as a nurse I would urge that parents-to-be consider.

I wish I could send this book to every parent-to-be.......1998-11-09

The arrival of this book is great news! This is the long-awaited tenth-anniversary edition of Dr. Chamberlain's 1988 classic, Babies Remember Birth. In paperback format and enriched with a new last chapter, this book has the potential to revolutionize the way we look at babies, both before and after birth. Part I is filled with "user-friendly" information about the mind and abilities of newborns, as well as a thorough look at their development before birth. Parts II and III present evidence that babies do remember birth and are very much aware of the people around them at that time. There are many amazing stories of labor and birth, from the baby's point of view. As Dr. Chamberlain writes, "Birth memories indicate that babies have an identity of their own; their parents don't give it to them. They act mindfully and build experience around a central core of self." The new last chapter is worth the price of the book all by itself. Dr. Chamberlain writes compellingly about the newborn's sensitivity, awareness, and vulnerability. He emphasizes the importance and power of the infant-and-parent connection during pregnancy and after birth. When the information in this book becomes common knowledge, we will look at our children with new respect and understanding.

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All expectant moms should read this.......2001-09-10

The best part of this book is its collection of awesome, authenticated birth (and pre-birth) memories. They support the belief that babies are beings of a very high level of consciousness at the time of birth, to a degree that most people would never suspect. This book belongs on a list about spirituality as much as it belongs on a list about birth. The memories that many people are able to retrieve about their births indicate that tiny infants indeed come into the world "trailing clouds of glory". Their emotions and level of understanding at birth are those of fully evolved spiritual beings, who--one assumes--lose their memories of a former spiritual existence as they mature. Anyone who is truly open to the message of this book will be deeply moved by stories such as the one about the baby in the womb who was worried about his mother because he understood that she was bleeding and near death. After reading this book, you're very likely to want your baby to have as gentle and natural a birth as possible--and you just might be careful what you say in the delivery room!

Amazing proof that Babies do remember their birth!.......1999-01-29

An excellent book for prospective parents. A must read for Drs, labor and delivery nurses, and doulas. This book gave me insight on my three son's births and how early comments did affect their lives. It also increased my awareness of the importance of making positive comments at the births I attended and creating a loving, welcoming presence for the newborn. It does make a difference!

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