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Work InformationStillwatch by Mary Higgins Clark (1984)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. 8422621207 Stillwatch has too many murderers and murders, too many family secrets, and too many coincidences to be plausible. The plot is elaborate and confusing. It features a local TV interviewer Pat Traymore, who arrives back in Apple Junction, the Virginia town where she was born. She is scheduled to interview the local Senator, Abigail Jennings, who is on the verge of being selected as Vice President of the US (after resignation of the incumbent). Pat has a history with the town -- when she was a toddler, bearing the name "Kerry", her father (Dean, a senator, also known as "Billy") supposedly murdered her mother and then killed himself. Little Kerry had been rescued by a local man named Arthur Stevens, who figures in the story later. Pat/ Kerry moves into her former house, where the crime occurred, and begins to recall events that are not compatible with the official story. Abigail has long had an assistant, Toby Gorgone, who Meanwhile, another subplot involves a woman named Eleanor who'd once worked for Abigail Jennings, and who'd been imprisoned years earlier for stealing campaign cash. She had been framed for the crime by Toby Gorgone. Having escaped from prison years ago, she's been Pat eventually figures out what really happened that fateful night when her parents died; The above may be rather hard to follow, but it's easier than the version given in the abridged version of the book. As for the title, "keeping a stillwatch" (we're informed) means "that if you believe something is wrong you keep a vigil". The connection with the book itself is tenuous and the reader will likely overlook it, as did I. In sum, I can't much recommend this book, and I've spent entirely too much time trying to reconstruct the plot. Other readers clearly have enjoyed it however. Perhaps the stack of bodies and subplots kept their juices flowing for long enough to find out who was doing what to whom and why. Hopefully, the above summary will be helpful to anyone who gets lost along the way. no reviews | add a review
Is contained inThree Complete Novels: Weep No More, My Lady / Stillwatch / A Cry in the Night by Mary Higgins Clark Is abridged inReader's Digest Condensed Books: Proof • The Old Man and the Sea • Stillwatch • The Summer of the Barshinskeys by Reader's Digest Distinctions
A young woman, on the threshold of a career that leads her to Washington, discovers that her questions about her childhood have unlocked a dangerous secret. No library descriptions found. |
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