Where Are You Now?: A NovelFrom America’s Queen of Suspense and #1 New York Times bestselling author comes a gripping tale of a young woman trying to unravel the mystery of a family tragedy—a quest with terrifying repercussions. It has been ten years since twenty-one-year-old Charles MacKenzie Jr. (“Mack”) went missing. A Columbia University senior, about to graduate and already accepted at Duke University Law School, he walked out of his apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side without a word to his college roommates and has never been seen again. However, he does make one ritual phone call to his mother every year: on Mother’s Day. Each time, he assures her he is fine, refuses to answer her frantic questions, then hangs up. Even the death of his father, a corporate lawyer, in the tragedy of 9/11 does not bring him home or break the pattern of his calls. Mack’s sister, Carolyn, is now twenty-six, a law school graduate, and has just finished her clerkship for a civil court judge in Manhattan. She has endured two family tragedies, yet she realizes that she will never be able to have closure and get on with her life until she finds her brother. She resolves to discover what happened to Mack and why he has found it necessary to hide from them. So this year when Mack makes his annual Mother’s Day call, Carolyn interrupts to announce her intention to track him down, no matter what it takes. The next morning after Mass, her uncle, Monsignor Devon MacKenzie, receives a scrawled message left in the collection basket: “Uncle Devon, tell Carolyn she must not look for me.” |
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... calling me, his voice mournful and troubled. Carolyn, stay back, stay back. “I can't, Mack,” I said aloud as I awakened. “I can't.” ., Monsignor Devon MacKenzie ruefully commented to visitors that his Mary Higgins Clark 6.
... calling me, his voice mournful and troubled. Carolyn, stay back, stay back. “I can't, Mack,” I said aloud as I awakened. “I can't.” ., Monsignor Devon MacKenzie ruefully commented to visitors that his Mary Higgins Clark 6.
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A Novel Mary Higgins Clark .,. Monsignor. Devon MacKenzie ruefully commented to visitors that his beloved St. Francis de Sales Church was located so close to the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine that it was almost invisible. A ...
A Novel Mary Higgins Clark .,. Monsignor. Devon MacKenzie ruefully commented to visitors that his beloved St. Francis de Sales Church was located so close to the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine that it was almost invisible. A ...
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... MacKenzie grabbed the scrap of paper, read the ten words printed on it, then, not trusting what he was seeing, read them again. “UNCLE DEVON, TELLCAROLYNSHE MUST NOT LOOK FOR ME.” .,Every year for the past nine years, Aaron Klein had ...
... MacKenzie grabbed the scrap of paper, read the ten words printed on it, then, not trusting what he was seeing, read them again. “UNCLE DEVON, TELLCAROLYNSHE MUST NOT LOOK FOR ME.” .,Every year for the past nine years, Aaron Klein had ...
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... MacKenzie,” I began. “We've met a few times. I was Judge Huot's law clerk. My brother has been missing for ten years. He left a note for me yesterday in a church on Amsterdam Avenue. I need help to see if we can track him down before he ...
... MacKenzie,” I began. “We've met a few times. I was Judge Huot's law clerk. My brother has been missing for ten years. He left a note for me yesterday in a church on Amsterdam Avenue. I need help to see if we can track him down before he ...
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... MacKenzie, from what you tell me, your brother had absolutely no reason to willingly disappear. But if he did that, there was and is a reason. You've probably watched some of these crime programs on television so you probably have heard ...
... MacKenzie, from what you tell me, your brother had absolutely no reason to willingly disappear. But if he did that, there was and is a reason. You've probably watched some of these crime programs on television so you probably have heard ...
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