Network correspondent Cassie Sheridan, a rising star at KEY's Washington bureau, is exiled to the Miami office after her ambitions overpower her common sense and she identifies a victim of the Clown Rapist as the daughter of the head of the FBI. Not only is her career on the skids, but her private life's also a mess, and meanwhile, there's nothing more newsworthy happening than a hurricane warning on Florida's west coast. Then an 11-year-old boy with a metal detector discovers the remains of a dead porn star on a Siesta Key beach. She's wearing a ruby ring that's too tempting a treasure to turn over to the police, but what young Vincent Bayler doesn't know is that it's also an item that at least one upstanding local citizen would do anything to keep from being traced back to him--including kidnapping Vincent's seriously ill brother to convince him to return the ring, and getting Cassie off his trail--permanently. This is a well-crafted but predictable thriller by Clark, whose fictional network (and its anything-for-a-story reporters) couldn't possibly bear more than a fleeting and coincidental resemblance to CBS, where she's been a writer and producer for many years--or could it? --Jane Adams


From Publishers Weekly
CBS News writer and producer Clark (Close to You) returns with a fast-paced but superficial page-turner featuring a down-on-her-luck newswoman and a precocious young boy. Cassie Sheridan's career is flourishing until she reveals on national TV that a serial rapist attacked the FBI director's daughter; the girl commits suicide and Cassie is demoted to a post in Sarasota, Fla. Estranged from her family, she's stuck reporting on hurricanes. But there's another storm brewing: young Vincent Baylor finds a human hand on the beach and takes a ring from the finger, figuring the money will help his overworked mom and sick little brother, but the killer (who also happens to be the rapist) wants the ring back and will kill again to get it. It turns out there were loads of men who might have wanted to harm the victim, porn star Marilee Qui¤ones, including the smarmy manager of a boy band, an antisocial eye doctor and one of her co-stars. Cassie strikes up a friendship with Vincent that puts her in the path of the killer as a hurricane heads up the coast. Though the plot is brisk and absorbing, it's a bit facile overall and Clark is too heavy-handed with the red herrings. Worse yet, everything is weighed down by cliches and a slack prose style, as evidenced by a profusion of lines like "Yep, life could turn on a dime." Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.


From Library Journal
Having overstepped her bounds, Washington, DC-based legal correspondent Cassie Sheridan is exiled to Florida, where a corpse on the beach brings out her reportorial skills even as a hurricane looms. Clark, a producer and writer for CBS News, should know her stuff. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.


From AudioFile
Fran Tunno shines as a woman horrified by the results of her actions in this taut, absorbing story. Newswoman Cassie Sheridan gets an exclusive when she reveals on-air that the daughter of the FBI's director has been attacked by a serial rapist. When the girl subsequently commits suicide, Cassie finds herself exiled to Florida. The plot heats up quickly when, in addition to the impending hurricane, another victim turns up, putting Cassie directly in the path of the killer. An abundance of red herrings keeps the plot moving briskly while narrator Tunno proves adept at voicing the victims, villains, and Cassie's attempts to separate the two. E.J.F. © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine


From Booklist
KEY News justice correspondent Cassie Sheridan is at the top of the heap professionally, reporting daily from Washington, D.C. As the first female director of the FBI announces a nationwide manhunt for a serial rapist and his potential inclusion on the Most Wanted list, Cassie seems to be the only reporter to wonder why a serial rapist with only three victims deserves this much high-level attention. She breaks the news that one of the victims is the daughter of said director, then is unprepared for the girl's suicide and the fallout. Cassie and KEY are sued, and KEY reassigns Cassie to the Miami area, where she goes from being the hottest ticket in broadcast journalism to a glorified weather girl. Egocentric Cassie also has to deal with the potential failure of her marriage. But as a hurricane approaches and a dead woman's hand washes ashore, Cassie pieces together a bizarre puzzle with pieces tying back to the serial rapist in this light suspense from the author of Close to You (2001). Melanie Duncan
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Review
"Fast-paced...brisk and absorbing." -Publishers Weekly

"As a hurricane approaches and a dead woman's hand washes ashore, Cassie pieces together a bizarre puzzle with pieces tying back to the serial rapist."-Booklist

"As slick as they come. A real page-turner!" -Fern Michaels, New York Times bestselling author of Kentucky Sunrise

"Impossible to resist."--Taylor Smith, bestselling author of Deadly Grace and The Innocents Club

"Well-crafted." --Amazon.com

"Compelling." --HeraldTribune.com

"Mary Jane Clark has a gift for writing page-turners ." -Mary Higgins Clark

"Clear, flowing prose...[Clark] has an insider's expertise that adds to the novel's verisimilitude...[Clark] makes ample use of her insider credentials and story lines right out of the headlines...[a] well-crafted page turner."-HeraldTribune.com

"An enjoyable read."-Brazosport Facts (Brazos, TX)

"Combines several can't-miss elements: a bevy of credible and well-drawn suspects, a sick child, and a hurricane...near-flawless plotting." -The Cleveland Plain Dealer



Review
"Fast-paced...brisk and absorbing." -Publishers Weekly

"As a hurricane approaches and a dead woman's hand washes ashore, Cassie pieces together a bizarre puzzle with pieces tying back to the serial rapist."-Booklist

"As slick as they come. A real page-turner!" -Fern Michaels, New York Times bestselling author of Kentucky Sunrise

"Impossible to resist."--Taylor Smith, bestselling author of Deadly Grace and The Innocents Club

"Well-crafted." --Amazon.com

"Compelling." --HeraldTribune.com

"Mary Jane Clark has a gift for writing page-turners ." -Mary Higgins Clark

"Clear, flowing prose...[Clark] has an insider's expertise that adds to the novel's verisimilitude...[Clark] makes ample use of her insider credentials and story lines right out of the headlines...[a] well-crafted page turner."-HeraldTribune.com

"An enjoyable read."-Brazosport Facts (Brazos, TX)

"Combines several can't-miss elements: a bevy of credible and well-drawn suspects, a sick child, and a hurricane...near-flawless plotting." -The Cleveland Plain Dealer



Review
"Fast-paced...brisk and absorbing." -Publishers Weekly

"As a hurricane approaches and a dead woman's hand washes ashore, Cassie pieces together a bizarre puzzle with pieces tying back to the serial rapist."-Booklist

"As slick as they come. A real page-turner!" -Fern Michaels, New York Times bestselling author of Kentucky Sunrise

"Impossible to resist."--Taylor Smith, bestselling author of Deadly Grace and The Innocents Club

"Well-crafted." --Amazon.com

"Compelling." --HeraldTribune.com

"Mary Jane Clark has a gift for writing page-turners ." -Mary Higgins Clark

"Clear, flowing prose...[Clark] has an insider's expertise that adds to the novel's verisimilitude...[Clark] makes ample use of her insider credentials and story lines right out of the headlines...[a] well-crafted page turner."-HeraldTribune.com

"An enjoyable read."-Brazosport Facts (Brazos, TX)

"Combines several can't-miss elements: a bevy of credible and well-drawn suspects, a sick child, and a hurricane...near-flawless plotting." -The Cleveland Plain Dealer



Book Description
Nobody Knows The Dark Secrets.
Cassie Sheridan has all a television news reporter could want: an important beat in Washington D.C., and a skyrocketing career. But then, she makes a critical mistake. Suddenly, her career is in shambles.

Nobody Knows How Far A Murderer Will Go.
Cassie is transferred to Miami, separated from her family, her friends, and the power of Washington. But in an unsuspecting Gulf Coast town, a killer is watching...and waiting.

Nobody Knows Who WIll Be Next.
While covering a hurricane that's moving up the Florida Coast, Cassie meets eleven-year-old Vincent, who has just made a grisly discovery on the beach. In one week, Cassie traces the connection between Vincent's "treasure" and a secret operation in the dark shadows of sunny Sarasota-a story that has national significance and maybe, just maybe, will enable her to put her life back together. But nobody knows how fierce the coming storm will be. Nobody knows if a young woman's murderer will stop at nothing to keep the crime a secret. And nobody knows if Cassie will get out alive....

Nobody Knows



From the Inside Flap
Non-stop Praise For Mary Jane Clark

Nobody Knows
"As a hurricane approaches and a dead woman's hand washes ashore, Cassie pieces together a bizarre puzzle with pieces tying back to the serial rapist."-Booklist

"Clear, flowing prose...[Clark] has an insider's expertise that adds to the novel's verisimilitude...[Clark] makes ample use of her insider credentials and story lines right out of the headlines...[a] well-crafted page turner."-HeraldTribune.com

"An enjoyable read."-Brazosport Facts (Brazos, TX)

Close To You
"Smooth is the word for this expert thriller...moving along effortlessly and unhurriedly, acquiring characters and subplots as it goes, always focusing on the climax the reader knows will come when the killer finally makes his move...Clark's tale deliver the goods...Clark's depiction of the stalkers who plague celebrities disturbs and convinces, and her characters come alive on the page: criminal, sick, genuinely evil, or simply flawed and very human."--Publishers Weekly

"An eerie story [with] a satisfying ending."--Providence Journal

"Gave me chills right from Chapter One...This really is 'behind the camera'-Mary Jane Clark gets the details right."-Vicky Mabrey, Correspondent, Sixty Minutes II

"[An] expert tale...delivers the goods."--Publishers Weekly

"Mary Jane Clark nails it; with every page my heart raced faster."--Gretchen Carlson, Anchor, CBS Saturday Show

"Clark's story retains its suspense throughout."--Newark Star-Ledger

"Mary Jane Clark has brought home the reality that being on television is not always so glamorous: Sometimes it can be downright terrifying!"--Elizabeth Kaledin, Correspondent, CBS Evening News with Dan Rather

"A frightening-and firsthand-look at the darker side of celebrity."--Sun Herald (Colusa, CA)

Let Me Whisper in Your Ear
"A suspense-charged, absorbing tale of treachery, troubled psyches, and flawed relationships that leaps beyond romantic suspense into the heart's darkest realms...Kept me guessing right up until the final jolting betrayal " --Perri O'Shaughnessy, author of Unfit to Practice

"Mary Jane Clark keeps the reader on the edge of [his or her] seat in Let Me Whisper in Your Ear. The combination of mind-dazzling suspense and nostalgia for the glory days of Palisades Park is a heady one. Lovers of great romantic mysteries will surely want to read the other novels of Ms. Clark."-Romantic Times

Do You Promise Not To Tell?
"Clark, who in real life is a writer and producer for CBS News, understands how to hang on to her audience. Her characters are the sorts with whom many readers identify. Her first book, Do You Want To Know A Secret?, had pluses. It was well told; its characters and plot were compelling. But Promise is stronger still...it is a fun read with some nifty twists." --USA Today

"The suspense never flags, and the killer's identity remains a secret long into the tale...for those who can't get enough of the competitively backbiting world of network news, this novel offers entertaining verisimilitude."--Publishers Weekly

"In news as in life, luck often counts as much as hard work. Clark captures the spirit of an enterprising reporter who relies on both to 'get' the story of her life."--Deborah Norville, anchor, Inside Edition

Do You Want To Know A Secret?
"Clark...spins a tightly knit whodunit with engaging characters and a suspenseful plot."
--Publishers Weekly

"The secret is out: Mary Jane Clark is one of the most exciting novels in America today. Her debut thriller takes us on a suspense-filled insider's tour of the corridors of power in politics and journalism where everybody's got a secret, everybody wants a scoop-and now somebody has murder in mind. Do You Want to Know A Secret? is an unabashed edge-of-the-seat, they-don't-write-'em-like-that-anymore, unplug-the-phone-and-disconnect-the-TV page-turning stunner!"--Dan Rather

"Do You Want to Know A Secret? is a brilliantly structured thriller. The secrets and surprises just keep coming and make perfect sense in the TV media world that Mary Jane Clark has absolutely nailed."--Janet Evanovich, author of To the Nines

"Secrets...ambition...intrigue...Mary Jane Clark knowingly seduces you in this intensely suspenseful behind-the-media-scenes thriller."--Joan Rivers



From the Back Cover
Nobody Knows The Dark Secrets.
Cassie Sheridan has all a television news reporter could want: an important beat in Washington D.C., and a skyrocketing career. But then, she makes a critical mistake. Suddenly, her career is in shambles.

Nobody Knows How Far A Murderer Will Go.
Cassie is transferred to Miami, separated from her family, her friends, and the power of Washington. But in an unsuspecting Gulf Coast town, a killer is watching...and waiting.

Nobody Knows Who WIll Be Next.
While covering a hurricane that's moving up the Florida Coast, Cassie meets eleven-year-old Vincent, who has just made a grisly discovery on the beach. In one week, Cassie traces the connection between Vincent's "treasure" and a secret operation in the dark shadows of sunny Sarasota-a story that has national significance and maybe, just maybe, will enable her to put her life back together. But nobody knows how fierce the coming storm will be. Nobody knows if a young woman's murderer will stop at nothing to keep the crime a secret. And nobody knows if Cassie will get out alive....

Nobody Knows

"Combines several can't-miss elements: a bevy of credible and well-drawn suspects, a sick child, and a hurricane...near-flawless plotting."
-The Cleveland Plain Dealer



About the Author
Mary Jane Clark is the author of six novels, including: Do You Want To Know a Secret, Do You Promise Not to Tell, Let Me Whisper in Your Ear, Close To You, and Nowhere To Run. She is a producer and a writer at CBS News in New York City and lives in New Jersey.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Nobody Knows The Dark Secrets.
Cassie Sheridan has all a television news reporter could want: an important beat in Washington D.C., and a skyrocketing career. But then, she makes a critical mistake. Suddenly, her career is in shambles.

Nobody Knows How Far A Murderer Will Go.
Cassie is transferred to Miami, separated from her family, her friends, and the power of Washington. But in an unsuspecting Gulf Coast town, a killer is watching...and waiting.

Nobody Knows Who WIll Be Next.
While covering a hurricane that's moving up the Florida Coast, Cassie meets eleven-year-old Vincent, who has just made a grisly discovery on the beach. In one week, Cassie traces the connection between Vincent's "treasure" and a secret operation in the dark shadows of sunny Sarasota-a story that has national significance and maybe, just maybe, will enable her to put her life back together. But nobody knows how fierce the coming storm will be. Nobody knows if a young woman's murderer will stop at nothing to keep the crime a secret. And nobody knows if Cassie will get out alive....

Nobody Knows

FROM THE CRITICS

Publishers Weekly

Balancing compelling characters and intricate plotting in her trademark beach read style, Clark's suspense-filled latest finds 39-year-old television reporter Cassie Sheridan wracked with guilt over her part in a young rape victim's suicide. Named in a wrongful death suit and demoted to the Miami bureau after 15 years as a Washington, D.C., power player, Cassie rues the sacrifices that cost her her marriage and her relationship with her teenage daughter. While covering an impending hurricane, the newswoman befriends Vincent, a latchkey 11-year-old who's just discovered a severed hand on the sandy shores of Siesta Key. The author's own background as a writer and producer at CBS News, paired with reader Tunno's convincing rendition of downtrodden Cassie, imparts vocational verisimilitude. Tunno also skillfully narrates the na ve Vincent, who steals a ring from the corpse to help his impoverished family and unwittingly puts himself and Cassie in the path of a serial killer whose M.O. includes wearing a grease paint clown mask. But despite the professional unabridged recording and fast pacing, translation to audio doesn't fair as well when Tunno is called on to voice a pornography mogul or the killer; she's unable to capture the grittier, masculine aspects of the book. Based on the St. Martin's Press hardcover (Forecasts, July 1). (July) Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal

Having overstepped her bounds, Washington, DC-based legal correspondent Cassie Sheridan is exiled to Florida, where a corpse on the beach brings out her reportorial skills even as a hurricane looms. Clark, a producer and writer for CBS News, should know her stuff. Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information.

AudioFile

Fran Tunno shines as a woman horrified by the results of her actions in this taut, absorbing story. Newswoman Cassie Sheridan gets an exclusive when she reveals on-air that the daughter of the FBI's director has been attacked by a serial rapist. When the girl subsequently commits suicide, Cassie finds herself exiled to Florida. The plot heats up quickly when, in addition to the impending hurricane, another victim turns up, putting Cassie directly in the path of the killer. An abundance of red herrings keeps the plot moving briskly while narrator Tunno proves adept at voicing the victims, villains, and Cassie's attempts to separate the two. E.J.F. © AudioFile 2003, Portland, Maine

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