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Dancing in the Dark

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New York Times bestselling author Mary Jane Clark turns up the heat in a drop-dead frightening novel about an idyllic beach community turned killer's hunting ground
KEY News correspondent Diane Mayfield has to give up her vacation and bring her children and her sister to the New Jersey shore town of Ocean Grove to investigate a story. "Girls Who Cry Wolf" is the topic for the season premiere of "Hourglass," television's premiere news magazine show. Diane lands an exclusive interview with a troubled young woman whose tale of being abducted and held against her will for three terrifying days and nights had been disbelieved by the authorities. No sooner does Diane finish taping the interview, though, than a second victim turns up: this time bound, gagged, and dead. And as soon as the police think they've solved the case, a third victim is discovered. Already in the grip of a record heat wave, the small beach community is now wracked by fear and terror—there's a murderer on the loose. Diane and the police turn to the first victim for clues. But it may be too late to save Diane and her loved ones from the mortal danger that lurks in Ocean Grove.
Full of twists, turns, and terrifyingly real danger, Dancing in the Dark is Mary Jane Clark's most suspenseful thriller yet.

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    • AudioFile Magazine
      Audiophiles appreciate the medium's enhancement of a text, typically finding it to enrich an author's story, meaning, and use of language. But audio also can shed glaring light on poor dialogue, mediocre character development, and cliché-filled description. Given that, Eliza Foss gives a strong reading of TV news reporter Diane Mayfield's coverage of abductions in a coastal town. Foss's characterizations emphasize emotion; strangely, however, Mayfield sounds less like a TV personality than do some of the town residents. Foss lends genuine feeling to the dialogue of the kidnap victims and long list of suspects. As several townsfolk fear that circumstantial evidence may lead to their arrests, Foss's reading sparks images of nail biting, pacing, and nervous tics. J.J.B. (c) AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      June 13, 2005
      In Clark's latest KEY News mystery (after Hide Yourself Away
      , etc.), correspondent Diane Mayfield heads to the quaint New Jersey beach town of Ocean Grove, not for a much-needed vacation but because even the sunniest of resorts has its newsworthy, hidden darkness. When Leslie Patterson, a young Ocean Grove woman reported missing for three days, is rescued virtually unharmed and claims she was kidnapped, police, friends and family believe her disappearance was a hoax and a cry for attention. Diane's producer Joel Malcolm sees the pseudo-kidnapping as grist for his "Girls Who Cry Wolf" feature and sends Diane to cover it for the network's Dateline
      -style Hourglass
      program. But the feature story becomes hard news when a second young woman is kidnapped and found dead. Suddenly, victim number one's story becomes credible, and the police, Diane, and her news crew start to take the investigation seriously as multiple Ocean Grove residents have motive and opportunity to have committed the crimes. Clark's latest competent showing will intrigue her eager fans, if not more discerning mystery readers. Agent, Laura Dail.

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