Interview I dated through my teens but I'd grown up too quickly to have any use for boys my own age. Warren Clark, my first husband, was a neighbour and nine years my senior. I'd had a crush on him since I was twelve but it wasn't until I was twenty one that we got it together. I joined Pan American as an air stewardess and invited him to my leaving party. Afterwards, he took me for a nightcap and began scribbling names on a napkin. It was the guest list for our wedding. He said I wasn't to go all girlie and cute on him because it was obvious we were going to marry' LOVE, ETC., THE TIMES, 16/6 'The fast pace is set from the start, with the horrifying ordeal of three-year-old twin girls being abducted from their beds ... With clues cleverly woven into the story, I was on the edge of my seat until the last page' WOMAN'S OWN MAGAZINE 10/7

MARY HIGGINS CLARK is the author of twenty-nine suspense novels; three collections of short stories; a historical novel, and a memoir. She is the co-author with her daughter, Carol Higgins Clark, of five holiday suspense novels.