Mary Higgins Clark Books In Order
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Weep No More, My Lady | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lottery Winner | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
All Through the Night | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Deck the Halls | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Christmas Thief | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Santa Cruise | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Dashing Through the Snow | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
I'll Walk Alone | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Lost Years | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
As Time Goes by | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
All By Myself, Alone | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Under Suspicion Books
I've Got You Under My Skin | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Cinderella Murder | (2014) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
All Dressed in White | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Sleeping Beauty Killer | (2016) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Every Breath You Take | (2017) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
You Don't Own Me | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Piece of My Heart | (2020) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Where Are The Children Books
Where are the Children? | (1975) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Where Are the Children Now? | (2023) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Standalone Novels
Aspire to the Heavens / Mount Vernon Love Story | (1968) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Stranger is Watching | (1977) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Cradle Will Fall | (1980) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
A Cry in the Night | (1982) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Stillwatch | (1984) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Caribbean Blues | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
While My Pretty One Sleeps | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Loves Music, Loves to Dance | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
All Around the Town | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
I'll Be Seeing You | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Remember Me | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Let Me Call You Sweetheart | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Silent Night | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Pretend You Don't See Her | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Moonlight Becomes You | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
You Belong To Me | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
We'll Meet Again | (1999) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Before I Say Good-Bye | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Daddy's Little Girl | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
On the Street Where You Live | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
He Sees You When You're Sleeping | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Second Time Around | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Nighttime is My Time | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
No Place Like Home | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Two Little Girls in Blue | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
I Heard That Song Before | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Ghost Ship | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Where Are You Now? | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Just Take My Heart | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Shadow of Your Smile | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Magical Christmas Horse | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Daddy's Gone A-Hunting | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Melody Lingers On | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
I've Got My Eyes on You | (2018) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Kiss the Girls and Make Them Cry | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas
Publication Order of Short Story Collections
The Anastasia Syndrome | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death on the Cape and Other Stories | (1989) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
My Gal Sunday | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Body in the Closet and Plumbing for Willy | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Death Wears a Beauty Mask and Other Stories | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books
Publication Order of Regan Reilly Mystery Books
Decked | (1991) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Snagged | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Iced | (1994) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Twanged | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Deck the Halls | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Fleeced | (2001) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Jinxed | (2002) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Popped | (2003) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Christmas Thief | (2004) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Burned | (2005) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Hitched | (2006) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Laced | (2007) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Zapped | (2008) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Cursed | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Wrecked | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mobbed | (2011) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Gypped / Scammed | (2012) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Publication Order of Malice Domestic Books
Malice Domestic 1 | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Malice Domestic 2 | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Malice Domestic 14 | (2019) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Each book is an anthology, with the listed author credited as the editor of the book. |
Publication Order of Anthologies
Murder on the Aisle | (1987) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Caribbean Blues | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder in Manhattan | (1988) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Sisters in Crime 2 | (1990) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Women of Mystery | (1992) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Malice Domestic 2 | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Malice Domestic 2 | (1993) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Bad Behavior | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Crown Crime Companion | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Year's 25 Finest Crime and Mystery Stories 1996 | (1995) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder For Love | (1996) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
More Malice Domestic | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Plot Thickens | (1997) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Murder on the Run | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Night Awakens | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
The Best American Mystery Stories 1998 | (1998) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Master's Choice: Mystery Stories by Today's Top Writers and the Masters Who Inspired Them | (2000) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
On a Raven's Wing | (2009) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
By Hook or By Crook and 27 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
By Hook or By Crook and 30 More of the Best Crime and Mystery Stories of the Year | (2010) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Inherit the Dead | (2013) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Manhattan Mayhem | (2015) | Hardcover Paperback Kindle |
Mary Higgins Clark’s father Luke Higgins and mother Nora are of Irish descent though Nora was born in the United States of America. At her childhood age, Mary had an interest in writing. At the age of seven, Mary Higgins Clark shockingly composed her first poem and frequently crafted some short plays that her friends enacted. Mary Higgins Clark was still a baby during the time of Great Depression in the world. Initially her family never felt the effect of the Depression.
This is because her family was able to sustain itself and also assist some of the jobless Americans who knocked at their door. Mary Higgins Clark’s family began to experience some financial constraints when she turned ten. This was as a result of the accumulated debts by customers who failed to be prompt in paying the bar tabs they owed her father.
Her father had no option other than retrenching some of his employees and spending more hours at work. Events took a painful turn in 1939, when Mary went home early from Mass to learn that her father had died while asleep. Her mother Nora struggled as a widow to raise them, and Mary was forced to get out of her bedroom which her mother rented out to boarders.
His elder brother posed risk of contracting osteomyelitis after cutting his foot by a piece of metal six months after the death of their father. However, he recovered through prayers by Mary Higgins and her mother. Mary Higgins Clark graduated from Saint Francis Xavier Grammar School and managed to secure a scholarship at Villa Maria Academy.
The principal together with other teachers encouraged her to develop her writing career. Here, Mary made the first attempt publishing her work but unfortunately her work got rejected. Mary Higgins Clark worked at Shelton Hotel as a switchboard operator in order to help her mother pay their bills.
Her brother Joseph graduated in 1944 from high school and immediately joined Navy to help his mother to pay bills and serve his country during war times. Six months later, Joseph contracted spinal meningitis and passed on.
After Joseph’s death, Mary Higgins Clark completed high school and attended Wood Secretarial School on a partial scholarship. One year after completing her course, she secured a secretarial job at the creative department of an advertising division at Remington-Rand.
In 1949, Mary worked with the Pan Am international flights that saw her travel across the globe. On the 26th day of December 1949, Mary Higgins Clark gave up her flying career and married Warren Clark. She then started taking writing courses at NYU, to keep herself busy.
In 1956, after forty rejections and six years without professional milestones, the Extension Magazine came to terms with Mary to purchase her story for $100. At personal level, Mary Higgins Clark and her husband were moving on well with their children Marilyn, Warren Junior, David, Carol and last born Patty. Warren used to work while Mary spent her time writing and encouraging her children to find ways to earn money.
Mary Higgins Clark filmed a television commercial herself for the Fab laundry detergent which was aired during times of the ‘I Love Lucy show’. Together with her husband they made a trip to Hawaii using the cash she earned from this commercial. In 1959 Mary’s husband Warren was diagnosed with severe angina complications. This rendered him to several heart attacks that finally saw him die in 1964.
His mother collapsed at his bedside on that particular night on discovering her son’s death. Mary Higgins Clark lost her husband and mother-in-law at the same time. The initial contract of Mary Higgins Clark as a radio scriptwriter gave her duty to write sixty five scripts, each script running on a four-minute program that dealt with the portrait patriot series.
With her impressive work, she was further requested to write two extra radio series. In the late 1960s, the market for short stories collapsed and that meant that Mary’s short stories could not find a publisher. Mary spent the next six years writing on the relationship between Martha and George Washington’s fictionalized account by name,’Aspire to the Heavens’.
This book did sell well and encouraged Mary to complete it to full-length and look for a publisher. Four months after the publication of this novel, Marry Higgins Clark got another blow by losing her mother Nora. Mary Higgins Clark knew clearly that education for her children was essential, and therefore was determined to provide them with the best education so that they could not struggle financially in future.
To be a role model, she joined Fordham University in 1971 at Lincoln Centre and graduated in 1979 with a BA in philosophy. Her children enumerated her example since they too graduated and are currently working.
When her children were in college, Mary Higgins Clark got more frustrations from her employer; she decided to quit her job and team up with her former colleagues to form their own company that was concerned with writing and marketing the radio scripts.
Mary Higgins Clark did not receive her salary for eight months as it was a year of building the company. This circumstance strained the family finances. Mary Higgins Clark never gave up writing. She reverted to writing suspense stories, which she loved while she was a child. Fortunately, these suspense stories gave her first success as a writer of short stories.
After a short duration of time, her younger brother; Johnny died and Mary was left to be a sole bread winner to her family. Throughout her widowhood, Mary Higgins Clark dated and was later married to Raymond Ploetz as from 1978 to 1986, what she tells to be a ‘disastrous marriage experience’.
However, she later divorced him. She remarried again in 1996 to Conheeney John; a retired CEO to Merrill Lynch Futures Company. Currently the couple lives in Saddle River in New Jersey. Mary Higgins Clark wrote many fictionally books ranging from; ‘Aspire to the Heavens’ which was reissued in 2000 as ‘Mount Vernon Love Story’ to 2014’s edition, ‘I’ve Got You under My Skin’.
She has also written two factual books; the 1993’s ‘Mother Salut’ and 2001’s ‘Kitchen Privileges, A Memoir’. She adapted five movies from the 1982’s ‘A Stranger Is Watching’ to 2002’s movie ‘All Round the Town’. Her television adaptations range from 1983’s ‘The Cradle Will Fall’ to 2004’s ‘Try to Remember’ series. She truly did exclusive writing works despite the many persisting set backs in her life.
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Love, love her books. Where Are the Children started me as a fan. I could not go to sleep without finishing the Cradle Will Fall. Fantastic writer.
Great story writer. Love her books. What a great lady to accomplish so muchh
A dynamic woman and beautiful writer
What a determined, amazing woman!