Mary Higgins Clark, such a total guilty pleasure

[Anonymous]

So I'm sick with a raging UTI and have been in bed all day with a heated pad. (Anyone else get UTIs? They suck.) Anyway, I rediscovered Mary Higgins Clark books. They're so dated and cheeseball, but also have a good NYC vibe and fun plot twists, especially if you're into rich ladies in peril. Anyone else read these, and could you recommend other similar books?

Bonus points if you could also tell me your reassuring or funny UTI tales of woe.

[Anonymous]

Have you read the books by MHC and Alafair Burke? Also fun and guilty pleasure.

[Anonymous]

Barbara Michaels

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have you read the books by MHC and Alafair Burke? Also fun and guilty pleasure.

Yes, those are "good" ones! It's like Alafair helps MHC join the modern world just a little bit.

[Anonymous]

The Wife Between Us

The Last Mrs. Parrish

The Vanishing Year by Kate Moretti

[Anonymous]

I just started reading her recently because there are a lot of her books in the reading room where I work. I like a mystery so I end up finishing the books, but she is a terrible writer. Money over matter for publishers, I guess.

[Anonymous]

Then you should try Virgin River on Netflix. If nothing else, go for Jack and Doc.

[Anonymous]

All of her heroines are rich rich rich and live in swanky Jersey suburbs.

[Anonymous]

I used to love Mary Higgins Clark! Back “in the day.”

Sorry about your UTI. I hope it’s being treated

[Anonymous]

How about Sue Grafton?

She wrote some good mysteries - but all the endings jump the shark.

However I would much rather read a great book w/a bad ending vs. the opposite.

Your choice.

[Anonymous]

Stuck in bed with a UTI? If you can't get away with Dan Brown now, when can you?

[Anonymous]

Sure Grafton is great. A much better writer than MHC. My favorite mystery writer is Dorothy Sayers—so good! But they are British and written in the 1920s-30s so a different experience.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Then you should try Virgin River on Netflix. If nothing else, go for Jack and Doc.

I love this show! When is season 2 coming out?

[Anonymous]

I can’t get beyond being in bed with a UTI

[Anonymous]

I also love MHC - have you read any of her daughter Carol Higgins Clark or firmer daughter-in-Law Mary Jane Clark’s books? They have some similarities.