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Mary Higgins Clark Award

The Mary Higgins Clark Award was formed in 2001 in honor of Clark's 25 year partnership with publisher Simon & Schuster.  The award will be given for 10 years and honors books in the tradition of Clark, namely they should feature a female protagonist who isn't looking for trouble but finds it and solves it herself.

   

2006

Karen Harper. Dark Angel
One morning, Leah Kurtz wakes her adopted infant daughter and instantly knows something is terribly wrong. She is convinced that her baby has been switched with another child, but no one believes her. Leah turns to Dr. Mark Morelli, who has come to study the genetic disease that plague Leah's Amish community.

2005

Rochelle Krich. Grave Endings
Volume 3 of the Molly Blume Series finds the true crime writer still dealing with the murder of her friend, Aggie Lasher. The blame is pinned on a handyman, who is later found killed. As Molly investigates further, her search for the truth places her in increasing jeopardy.

2004

M.K. Preston. Song of the Bones
Thelma Patterson had long since given up on seeing Billy Ray Patterson again, the man she married thirty years ago who disappeared not long after the nuptials. Legal land dealings with an oil company have brought up her long-gone husband's whereabouts, so Thelma retains Chantalene Morrell and Drew Sander's legal services to track down Billy Ray. They presume he's dead. That is, until a handsome cowboy claiming to be the man himself strides into their small town of Tetumka, Oklahoma - and soon moves back in with his deserted wife.
 

2003

Rose Conners. Absolute Certainty

2002

Judith Kelman. Summer of Storms
Anna Jameson has been haunted since the summer of the hurricane when she was three years old--the same summer her five-year-old sister Julie was murdered. Even 30 years later, Anna, now a photojournalist, sees crude composites of that night. She returns to New York City, the scene of this horrendous, unsolved crime--and comes closer to a killer.

2001

Barbara D'Amato. Authorized Personnel Only
While Chicago cop Suze Figueroa spends her work day tracking down an elusive serial killer, she has no idea that a much more personal danger lives under her own roof, eating her food, handling her gun, and watching her loved ones. Strips of yellow tape may keep curious bystanders away from crime scenes, but nothing so simple can protect Suze and her family from the menace that has invaded the safety of their home.



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