Mary Higgins Clark Books in Order

A fictional portrait of George and Martha Washington, this early novel follows Washington from uncertain young officer to reluctant president, focusing on his marriage, home at Mount Vernon, and the private love story behind public history.

Nancy Harmon, once accused of killing her first two children, has built a new life on Cape Cod with a new family. When her young son and daughter vanish, echoes of the past return and she must race to find them while proving her innocence.

Two years after his wife’s murder, Steve Peterson supports the death penalty for the convicted killer—until his young son and a TV reporter are abducted by the real murderer and hidden beneath Grand Central Terminal in a deadly countdown.

After a late‑night car accident, prosecutor Katie DeMaio glimpses something sinister in a passing van. Her investigation into a respected fertility doctor uncovers chilling experiments and puts her own life in danger.

Divorced single mother Jenny MacPartland marries charismatic painter Erich Krueger and moves to his isolated Minnesota farm. As his behavior grows possessive and his obsession with his dead mother emerges, Jenny realizes she and her children may not be safe.

TV journalist Pat Traymore moves to Washington, D.C., to profile a powerful senator poised to become vice president and to live in the Georgetown house where a childhood tragedy occurred. Anonymous threats and buried political secrets quickly turn deadly.

Set in the world of theater, this short suspense piece follows the fallout when a glamorous evening at the movies turns into a crime scene, exposing jealousies and rivalries that have been simmering just offstage.

Former teacher Kay Crandall returns for a high‑school reunion expecting nostalgia, not danger. When an obsessed ex‑student kidnaps her, determined to make her his captive bride, Kay must outthink a madman to survive.

When her glamorous actress sister Leila dies in an apparent suicide at an exclusive spa, Elizabeth Lange refuses to believe she jumped. As she digs into Leila’s last days, jealous colleagues and hidden obsessions emerge, and Elizabeth becomes the next potential victim.

A shared‑world mystery aboard a Caribbean cruise, this anthology’s title story by Mary Higgins Clark drops readers into a floating resort where jewel thieves, con artists, and unsuspecting passengers collide in close quarters.

In this eerie short thriller, Caroline Marshall still mourns her twin sister, murdered five years earlier. When the killer returns on the anniversary to finish the job he botched, Caroline must untangle her sister’s secrets to stay alive.

An anthology of New York–set crime stories by Mary Higgins Clark and other mystery writers, including Clark’s own “Lucky Day.” Each tale uses a different Manhattan neighborhood as the backdrop for intrigue, chance encounters, and sharply turned endings.

A varied story collection featuring airline hijinks, eerie nightmares, and several Alvirah Meehan capers, including one where the lottery winner returns from England to find a Broadway actress’s body in her hotel wardrobe.

This collection pairs the novella The Anastasia Syndrome, about a historian whose search for her origins unleashes a dangerous split identity, with four shorter tales exploring obsessive love, psychic bonds, premonitions, and mothers fighting for their children.

Neeve Kearney, owner of an upscale Manhattan boutique, is stunned when her difficult but influential client, a fashion writer, is found murdered. As Neeve searches for answers among designers and socialites, she uncovers secrets someone is desperate to keep buried.

This anthology gathers crime stories about beauty, bodies, and appearances, including Hess's award-winning title piece. It is a sharp, witty sampler of women-centered mysteries with humor, bite, and more than one nasty little surprise.

Best friends Erin and Darcy help a TV producer research personal ads, treating it as a lark until Erin is found murdered, wearing one dancing slipper. Determined to catch the “dancing shoe” killer, Darcy puts herself directly in his sights.

College student Laurie Kenyon is accused of killing her English professor but has no memory of the crime. Kidnapped and abused as a child, she developed multiple personalities, and now her sister and a psychiatrist must uncover what really happened before it’s too late.

This short story traces Alvirah Meehan’s fateful lottery win and the troubles that follow as opportunists and criminals swarm. Her street smarts and Willy’s steady presence help them navigate sudden wealth without losing themselves.

Edited by Cynthia Manson, this anthology collects fifteen mystery stories by women writers, each featuring a woman at the center of the action. The selection includes work by Mary Higgins Clark, Ruth Rendell, Sara Paretsky, Faye Kellerman, and others.

Reporter Meghan Collins, still grieving her father’s mysterious disappearance, sees the face of a dead Jane Doe in the ER that looks exactly like her own. Investigating the double leads her to a fertility clinic and a web of stolen identities.

Mary Higgins Clark presents original cozy mystery short stories in the tradition of Agatha Christie. The anthology brings together varied puzzles, crimes, and sleuths from contributors including Amanda Cross, Robert Barnard, Margaret Maron, and Frances Fyfield.

Still mourning her young son’s accidental death, Menley Nichols accompanies her lawyer husband and their baby to a rented Cape Cod house called Remember House. Strange events echo an old tragedy and make her fear history is about to repeat itself.

A linked collection of stories about Queens cleaning woman Alvirah Meehan and her plumber husband Willy after her lottery win. Sudden wealth brings kidnappers, jewel thieves, and con artists, but Alvirah’s sharp eye and big heart keep landing her on the side of justice.

Edited by Mary Higgins Clark, this anthology gathers twenty‑two crime stories in which teenagers, fractured families, and small acts of rebellion slide toward violence, highlighting how ordinary misbehavior can sometimes conceal something far darker.

This Adams Round Table anthology brings together mystery short stories by Thomas Chastain, Mary Higgins Clark, and other writers. It includes Clark’s “A Clean Sweep” alongside tales of crime and justice.

Prosecutor Kerry McGrath visits a plastic surgeon with her daughter and notices several women who share the same eerily perfect face, identical to a decade‑old murder victim dubbed the “Sweetheart Killer.” Her curiosity about that face puts her on a collision course with a killer.

Manhattan real‑estate star Lacey Farrell witnesses a client’s murder and hears the woman’s last plea to protect her dead daughter’s journal. After entering witness protection, Lacey discovers the killer has tracked her down and that the missing pages hold the key to the truth.

On Christmas Eve in New York, seven‑year‑old Brian chases the thief who stole his mother’s wallet and his father’s cherished St. Christopher medal, only to fall into the orbit of an escaped convict. As snow falls, family, police, and a remorseful sister race to find him.

A guide to 100 mystery novels chosen by the Mystery Writers of America, with annotations by Otto Penzler. Ten additional category lists, ranging from classics and suspense to cozies, historical mysteries, and legal crime, are introduced by genre specialists.

The fifth annual selection assembles 25 crime and mystery stories in varied styles, from traditional puzzles to darker suspense. It also includes Edward D. Hoch’s survey material: a bibliography and necrology that place the year’s mystery fiction in a broader context.

Fashion photographer Maggie Holloway reunites with her beloved former stepmother, only to arrive in Newport and find her murdered. Inheriting the Victorian house, Maggie notices a disturbing pattern in recent deaths among elderly women and realizes she’s next on the list.

Edited by Otto Penzler, this crime-fiction anthology gathers stories tied to romance, obsession, betrayal, and murder. Its wide-ranging lineup includes Mary Higgins Clark, Elmore Leonard, James Crumley, Sara Paretsky, Joyce Carol Oates, Anne Perry, and other notable writers.

Four linked stories introduce Henry Parker Britland IV, a youthful former president, and his congresswoman wife Sunday. Between political intrigues, kidnappings, and missing dignitaries, the glamorous couple turns their honeymoon‑phase chemistry into an informal crime‑solving partnership.

Mary Higgins Clark and Elizabeth Peters present seven original mystery stories as a tribute to Agatha Christie. The collection ranges across crime settings and styles and includes Charlotte and Aaron Elkins’s Agatha Award-winning “Nice Gorilla.”

In this charity anthology, Mary Higgins Clark and fellow mystery writers each spin a tale that must include a thick fog, a thick steak, and a thick book. The result is a playful mix of crime stories built around a shared storytelling challenge.

In this charity anthology, mystery and suspense writers each build a story around the same three required elements: a thick fog, a thick book, and a thick steak. The resulting tales were created to support Literacy Partners’ adult-literacy work.

On Christmas Eve, Alvirah and Willy Meehan search for a stolen church chalice and help a young woman whose baby was taken years before. Their investigation winds through Manhattan charity parties and tenements, bringing together two long‑separated families.

A 12-story mystery anthology from the Adams Round Table, featuring work by Lawrence Block, Mary Higgins Clark, Peter Straub, Dorothy Salisbury Davis, and others. The contents include Block’s “Keller’s Choice” and Clark’s “Lady Sleuth, Lady Sleuth, Run Away Home!”

Guest editor Sue Grafton selects a varied set of American mystery and crime stories for this annual volume. Established writers including Mary Higgins Clark, Walter Mosley, Lawrence Block, and Donald E. Westlake appear alongside newer voices.

An audio collection featuring two Alvirah and Willy stories: in one, a corpse turns up in a hotel closet; in the other, a routine plumbing job pulls Willy into danger, giving Alvirah two more chances to play amateur sleuth.

A true‑crime anthology associated with Mystery Writers of America, this volume collects essays and stories about real and fictional cases of violence against women, exploring how unsolved crimes continue to haunt families and communities.

Convicted of killing her HMO‑executive husband, Molly Lasch serves six years in prison while claiming not to remember the night of the murder. After parole, she enlists her journalist friend Fran Simmons to investigate, uncovering medical fraud, betrayal, and a killer still at large.

Radio psychologist Susan Chandler warns listeners about dating safety, then becomes convinced a serial killer is targeting single women on cruise ships, giving each a ring engraved “You Belong to Me.” Her show turns into both a lifeline and bait for the murderer.

When columnist Nell MacDermott’s architect husband dies with three colleagues in a yacht explosion tied to a major development project, questions of corruption and sabotage arise. A medium claiming to channel her husband’s messages pulls Nell into a dangerous search for the bomber.

In this Christmas collaboration with Carol Higgins Clark, lottery‑winner Alvirah Meehan teams up with PI Regan Reilly when Regan’s father is kidnapped just before the holidays. Ransom notes, family tensions, and Manhattan traffic create a fast, festive rescue race.

Lawrence Block’s anthology pairs stories by nine contemporary mystery writers with works by earlier authors they chose as inspirations. The selections range across crime and suspense, placing each contributor’s work beside a personally meaningful predecessor.

At seven, Ellie Cavanaugh testified against a wealthy nineteen‑year‑old she believed killed her older sister. Twenty‑two years later he is paroled and claims innocence, pushing Ellie—now a reporter—to reopen the case and confront both a possible miscarriage of justice and a dangerous man.

Selfish playboy Sterling Brooks dies in a freak accident and finds himself stuck in limbo. To earn his way into heaven, he must help a troubled young girl reunite with her fractured family before Christmas Eve runs out.

After a stalking ordeal and divorce, lawyer Emily Graham buys her ancestral Victorian house in Spring Lake, New Jersey. A skeleton found during renovations, clutching a bone wearing Emily’s family ring, links long‑ago disappearances to a modern killer who is watching her.

Clark’s memoir traces her Bronx childhood during the Depression, the loss of her father, years as a Pan Am stewardess, early marriage and widowhood, radio‑script work, and the long path to writing *Where Are the Children?* and the suspense novels that followed.

When biotech CEO Nicholas Spencer’s plane disappears after his company’s anticancer vaccine fails and investors lose their savings, financial reporter Carley DeCarlo—his skeptical stepsister‑in‑law—is assigned the story. As she digs into corporate secrets, someone will do anything to stop her.

Historian Jean Sheridan returns to her elite high school for a twentieth reunion, only to see classmates die under suspicious circumstances. A taunting fax about the child she gave up for adoption and a killer dubbed “the Owl” make her realize she is the final target.

When the giant Rockefeller Center Christmas tree is hijacked as part of a jewel‑heist scheme, Alvirah Meehan and Regan Reilly follow the trail to a snow‑covered Vermont lodge, untangling cons, old grudges, and holiday chaos.

At ten, Liza Barton accidentally shot her mother and was branded a child killer. Years later, living under a new name, her husband unknowingly buys her childhood house as a surprise, and someone begins framing her for a fresh series of deaths.

Alvirah and Willy join Regan and Jack Reilly on the maiden voyage of a holiday‑themed cruise ship. What should be a floating party turns tense when con artists, a missing "Santa," and a dangerous fugitive all surface at sea.

Twin three‑year‑olds Kathy and Kelly are kidnapped for ransom; only Kelly returns, while the kidnappers insist Kathy is dead. When Kelly begins insisting her sister is alive and communicating with her, their mother follows those strange clues in a desperate search.

In this illustrated children’s story set on Cape Cod, Thomas finds an old belt buckle on the beach and meets Silas, a cabin boy from a ship lost centuries ago. Their brief friendship lets Thomas glimpse courage and adventure on the high seas.

As a child, landscaper’s daughter Kay Lansing overheard a blackmail conversation in the Carrington mansion the night a young woman vanished. Years later she marries heir Peter Carrington, long suspected in that disappearance, and begins to fear her husband’s past is repeating itself.

In the small town of Branscombe, New Hampshire, four coworkers unexpectedly share a winning lottery ticket. As greed, envy, and old secrets flare and people go missing, Alvirah Meehan and Regan Reilly must uncover who is willing to kill for the jackpot.

Ten years ago, college student Mack MacKenzie walked out of his New York apartment and disappeared, calling home only once a year on Mother’s Day. His sister Carolyn finally vows to track him down, uncovering ties to missing women and secrets in their privileged circle.

When Broadway star Natalie Raines is murdered, a small‑time criminal later claims her estranged husband hired him to do it. Assistant prosecutor Emily Wallace takes the case, unaware that her seemingly helpful neighbor has a dark past and a disturbing interest in her.

Twenty contemporary mystery writers honor Edgar Allan Poe’s bicentennial with original tales shaped by his work and legacy. Contributors include Mary Higgins Clark and Don Winslow, whose “Poe, Jo, and I” considers an unexpected friendship formed through literature.

Edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg, this annual crime-and-mystery anthology collects stories published during 2009 alongside Jon L. Breen’s overview of the year. The lineup includes Dennis Lehane’s “Animal Rescue” and Mary Higgins Clark’s “The Tell-Tale Purr.”

A dying nun reveals that a world‑famous heiress may have had a secret child, threatening a powerful family’s control of a vast art‑world fortune. As lawyer Monica Farrell investigates, she stirs up old hatreds and becomes a target herself.

Two years after her toddler son was abducted from Saint Patrick’s Cathedral, interior designer Alexandra Moreland is still searching. Now someone is stealing her identity and planting evidence that she harmed her own child, forcing her to confront a chilling impostor.

In this gentle Christmas picture book, young Johnny visits his grandparents’ farm and is captivated by a beautifully carved wooden horse stored in the barn. A holiday surprise turns the treasured toy into a symbol of family love and tradition.

Biblical scholar Jonathan Lyons is murdered after claiming to have found a letter written by Jesus. His daughter Mariah must clear her Alzheimer’s‑stricken mother, locate the missing manuscript, and discover which of her father’s colleagues is hiding the truth.

An explosion at a family‑owned antiques business nearly kills Hannah Connelly and leaves her sister Kate desperate for answers. As Kate probes old scandals, a long‑ago baby’s disappearance, and financial pressures, she realizes someone will kill to keep the past buried.

Disgraced former cop Perry Christo, now a private investigator, is hired to find the wealthy daughter of an Upper East Side socialite. The search moves through wintry New York and the Hamptons in a serial noir novel written chapter by chapter by twenty mystery authors.

Widowed TV producer Laurie Moran launches Under Suspicion, a reality show that reenacts cold cases, starting with a socialite’s unsolved “Graduation Gala” murder. As she gathers the original guests on camera, she must also watch for the man who once threatened her own family.

Laurie Moran’s show tackles the decades‑old murder of Susan Dempsey, a brilliant student found dead in a Hollywood canyon instead of at the audition she never reached. Reuniting suspects and witnesses on set brings long‑hidden motives and a watching killer to light.

A distraught mother asks Under Suspicion to revisit her daughter’s disappearance on the eve of a lavish destination wedding. Laurie Moran brings the bridal party, jilted groom, and family to the same resort, hoping the cameras will finally reveal what happened to the missing bride.

A collection of early and later work, including the title story about a model whose final fashion shoot turns lethal, plus Alvirah and Willy adventures and previously hard‑to‑find suspense tales.

Set in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, this story follows a beloved neighborhood baker whose delectable creations hide darker ingredients. When a series of misfortunes strike people around the shop, a curious observer starts to wonder whether coincidence is really to blame.

Interior designer Lane Harmon works for the wife of a disgraced financier who vanished after a massive fraud. While helping refurbish the woman’s new home, Lane suspects the fugitive may still be alive—and that people around them know more than they admit.

TV anchor Delaney Wright covers the trial of a woman accused of killing her wealthy husband while secretly searching for the birth mother who gave her up. As both stories entwine, Delaney discovers that the past she longs to know is tied to a deadly secret.

Years after Casey Carter is convicted of killing her wealthy fiancé as he slept, she insists she was framed. Featuring her story on Under Suspicion, Laurie Moran must decide whether Casey is a wronged woman or a manipulative killer while someone works hard to keep the truth hidden.

Jewelry expert Celia Kilbride escapes a scandal by lecturing on a luxury ship’s maiden voyage, sharing the trip with a legendary cursed diamond and its difficult owner. When the owner is murdered at sea, every passenger becomes a suspect.

During a glittering gala at New York’s Met, a wealthy widow falls—or is pushed—from the museum’s rooftop garden. Laurie Moran’s team restages the event for Under Suspicion, uncovering jealous relatives, art‑world rivalries, and a stalker who may strike again.

Teenager Kerry Dowling is found dead in her backyard pool after a party. Suspicion falls on her boyfriend and a shy neighbor, while her older sister Aline teams with a young detective to sift suburban grudges and uncover the real killer.

Laurie Moran profiles the unsolved shooting of a famous physician whose controlling behavior extended far beyond his marriage. As filming begins, anonymous threats and unnerving videos suggest someone close to the case still wants his widow, and the truth, silenced.

Reporter Gina Kane pursues accusations of sexual harassment at a powerful television network. When women who planned to come forward die in apparent accidents, she realizes she’s up against a predator protected by money, lawyers, and a willingness to kill.

While Under Suspicion investigates the disappearance of a toddler from a family’s Hamptons birthday party years earlier, Laurie Moran also faces a tragedy close to home. The case weaves together sibling rivalries, a violent storm, and the devastating cost of one terrible decision.

Decades after their childhood abduction, Melissa and Mike Eldredge help their mother Nancy relocate from Cape Cod to the Hamptons. When Melissa’s young stepdaughter disappears under eerily similar circumstances, they must confront old trauma to save her before history repeats itself.

A later entry in the Under Suspicion line, this novel finds Laurie Moran and her team reopening another emotionally charged cold case tied to love, betrayal, and a public humiliation that ended in a shocking death.