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Page Count: 336
Printing Date: April 04, 2006
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In a riveting new thriller, worldwide bestselling suspense writer Mary Higgins Clark weaves the mystery of twin telepathy into a mother's search for a kidnapped child, presumed dead.
Margaret and Steve Frawley celebrate the third birthday of their twin girls, Kelly and Kathy, with an afternoon party in their new home, a modest fixer-upper in Ridgefield, Connecticut.
The evening of the twins' birthday party, Steve and Margaret attend a black-tie dinner in New York. When they return home, the police are in the house, and they are told that the babysitter had been found unconscious, the children are gone, and a note demanding an eight-million-dollar ransom had been left in their room.
Steve Frawley's firm, a global investment company, agrees to pay the ransom. The kidnapper, who identifies himself as the 'Pied Piper,' makes his terms known -- on delivery of the ransom, a call will come, revealing the girls' whereabouts. The call comes, but only Kelly is in the car parked behind a deserted restaurant. The driver is dead from a gunshot wound and has left a suicide note, saying he had inadvertently killed Kathy and had dumped her body in the ocean.
At the private memorial Mass for Kathy, Kelly tugs Margaret's arm and says: 'Mommy, Kathy is very scared of that lady. She wants to come home right now.' More unexplainable occurrences follow, indicating that Kelly is in touch with Kathy. At first, no one except the mother believes that the twins are communicating and that Kathy is still alive. As Kelly's warnings become increasingly specific and alarming, however, FBI agents set out on a search for Kathy. The novel reaches a breathtaking climax as they close in on the Pied Piper and his accomplices, while Kathy's life hangs by a thread.
In delving into the well-documented but still unexplained phenomenon of twin telepathy, Mary Higgins Clark tells a spellbinding tale that takes us deep into the minds of her characters while lifting us to the heights of suspense.
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Kelly and Kathy, three year old twins, are kidnapped while their parents, Steve and Margaret are at a party. When they return home, they find out that the babysitter could not stop them, and now, their beautiful twin girls are gone. The three kidnappers, Lucas, Clint, and Clint's psycho girlfriend, Angie, wait for instructions from the Pied Piper, the leader of the kidnapping. He instructs them to demand $8 million.
Steve's company finally decides to pay the ransom after a long discussion. However, the Pied Piper's plan does not go as planned when Angie decides that she wants to keep Kathy and shoots Lucas, leaving a fake suicide note claiming he accidentally killed Kathy. Kelly has a psychic connection with her twin, and only Margaret believes her. Finally, the FBI and police embark on a journey to believe in Kelly's premonitions, thus turning this novel into a suspensful novel.
So on and on we go. The biggest problem I had with this novel is that others seem to be aware or suspect who the kidnappers are. Yet, no one is ever able to go to the police about their suspicions as things keep preventing them from doing so. This would be highly unlikely so therefore, parts of this story is very unbelievable. Overall, it is an okay read, just some parts are highly unacceptable.
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While stuck in an airport for several hours I purchased this book to kill time before my connecting flight.
This was my very first book by Mary Higgins Clark, and I've since purchased another which I haven't really been able to get into. "Two Little Girls in Blue" tells the story of the kidnapping of twin 3 year old girls who have some sort of mental telepathy special powers referred to as "twin talk" which at times (ok, usually) exceeds the bounds of believability and goes off into the ridiculous. Their abilities (telepathic, verbal and comprehension) would have been more believable if they were portrayed as aliens from another planet rather than human.
Also difficult to believe were the characters of: the twin's mother, who impressed me as the type of weak woman who always fainted at the slightest thing in old movies, and their pediatrician who dropped everything and abandoned her practice to rush to the mother's side when the twins were kidnapped.
Overall is was on OK read, not great, not awful, just OK, but it did help me kill time in the airport.
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Mary Higgins Clark is one of my favorites. This was a good story line and an easy read.
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I've realized lately, after reading (or listening on audio CD) to several Mary Higgins Clark novels, that she is a fine enough story-teller, but she is very limited. She uses the same plot twists and she always comes back to same types of delivery:
Her characters reveal themselves inadvertently, but she neglects to realize that murderers, kidnappers, molesters etc. are not the most clear thinking individuals and they aren't capable of the insights she provides them with. It just isn't plausible. If these people were so incredibly understanding of their own motivations they wouldn't be committing these acts, and they always inevitably break down and confess all when cornered. Also , simply not plausible. It becomes somewhat annoying when your 3 books into this author and every single one of the "villains" offers up all (at only the mildest of coaxing from law enforcement) at the end, how convenient for her characters that they are saved at the last possible moment by an insightful killer who conveniently confesses not only their crimes, but their motives as well.
She really likes to give you a murder suspect that is wrongly accused but looks oh so guilty. That's fine, but after five, six plots? Are we still in for this? I'm not.
This book you have a rag-tag group of morons who decide to kidnap twins in an effort to gain ransom. The plan is directed only by phone by someone known as the "piped piper", these morons haven't even ever met this piper yet they complete the kidnapping and make sure this mysterious voice gets seven million of the eight million they escape with. Are you serious? That in and of itself is ridiculous. And then there is the fact as I've pointed out that these people are complete morons, and they pull off a ransom/kidnapping? When was the last time one has been successfully completed in the United States? And the money is dropped, physically dropped and picked up and the FBI missing it because they are blocked in traffic? Are you serious? Suspension of disbelief is required for any fiction story, but this goes above and beyond, am I supposed to leave my reason and intellect at the door? And then you have the distraught mother of the twins directing these FBI agents through the investigation, because without her incredible insights and detective work, they certainly would have still been sitting in traffic, no?
All in all, if she would fix these minor details she could be a great writer, but instead, she writes fast, doesn't check facts and has characters that are just convenient and not believable. What makes her successful is her ability to make her victims so sympathetic. I hang in there, just to see them through, although I know they will make it through fine every time and in the same fashion.
She also loves to put songs into her books, alot of her titles come from songs. It's almost like she writes the same book over and over, and just changes slight details. Think I will wait subsequent time, and simply not purchase the book, as I already know how the story goes.
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Sorry, but this is probably one of the Clark's worst novels. The characters were weak and flat, and frankly there wasn't a mystery--just lots of suspense, and I'm afraid that you can't keep a book going on that.
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