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A Cry in the Night
by Mary Higgins Clark
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Dell (1983-09-01)
ISBN: 0440110653
EAN: 9780440110651
Mass Market Paperback: 317 pages
Release Date: 1983-09-01
SKU: 546
Condition: As New
Comments: Binding: Softcover. Condition: As New.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
When Jenny MacPartland meets the man of her dreams while working in a New York art gallery, she's ecstatic. Painter Erich Krueger -- whose exquisite landscapes are making him a huge success -- is handsome, sensitive...and utterly in love with her. They marry quickly and Jenny plans a loving home on Erich's vast Minnesota farm. But lonely days and eerie nights strain her nerves to the breaking point and test her sanity. Caught in a whirlpool of shattering events, Jenny soon unearths a past more terrifying than she dares imagine...tragic secrets that threaten her marriage, her children, her life.
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Customer Reviews
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I was totally sucked into this book!!!
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-02-29
I've read a few of Clark's other books, and liked them, but I spend most of my time and money on non fiction books. My mom had this and brought it over to me as soon as she finished saying how great it was. She was right, I finished it that night! I felt so bad for her, getting herself stuck into a situation that kept getting worse. I also realy identified with the loss of the baby, because I have lost one too. I will definitly be reading more of her books in the future!
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great book if you enjoy the gratuitous killing of animals
Rating  (1)
Date: 2008-02-24
I may have read one or two of her books in the past, but I won't be in a hurry to pick up another one. Besides the two instances where an animal was cruelly and unnecessarily killed, I could see the predictable, happily-ever-after ending coming a mile away.
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It's just "okay"
Rating  (3)
Date: 2008-01-21
I'm not a huge Mary Higgins Clark fan, but I have enjoyed a few of her books. However, after reading people like Nora Roberts, Linda Howard, and Sandra Brown, this book seems quite "empty" to me. There's no real substance to it. Clark doesn't write characters that I want to read about, characters that I either love or hate. When I read, I like KNOWING the character, and seeing the story through their eyes. Here I don't know much about them at all. I know Clark writes mystery, not romance, but still, the whole relationship between the "main" character Jenny and the "off" Erich Kreuger is just strange, and hardly believable. It's hard to even pity Jenny for her situation. The idea of the story is a little spooky, I'll give her that, but it really didn't grab me. It's just another book that's easy enough to get through, but it's not so great.
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A Cry In The Night, by Mary Higgins Clark
Rating (5)
Date: 2008-01-18
A must read for everyone who likes a good mystery without all the gore and dirty words used to describe something. I always enjoy reading stories by Mary Higgins Clark. She is one of my favorite authors. This latest A Cry In The Night is one of her better ones. I will reread it later this year.
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not her best, but a great book to start with
Rating (3)
Date: 2007-08-16
Jenny is not the type of heroine one has come to associate with MHC books. She's actually all but the opposite. But she's a fresh change. A scared divorcee living on a remote farm with her new husband and two daughters from her last marriage, Jenny starts to fear for her sanity. Erich, her painter husband, is gone all the time to a bungalow in the woods. He says he's painting.
Jenny is forbidden to use the car, and when ahe attempts to rearrange a few pieces of furniture,Erich puts them right back where they were.
Things get worse after Jenny has their son. But i'll leave it at that. While there aren't very many twists to it, and the ending is somewhat predictable, it's still a great read to the finish!
This is one of MHCs very first novels, and for a first novel, its very good! Read it!
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