From Publishers Weekly
Smooth is the word for this expert thriller by CBS producer and writer Clark (Let Me Whisper in Your Ear, etc.). Moving along effortlessly and unhurriedly, acquiring characters and subplots as it goes, and always focusing on the climax the reader knows will come when the killer finally makes his move, Clark's tale delivers the goods. Eliza Blake, anchor for the KEY Evening Headlines, is a 30-something celebrity, beautiful, smart and good at her job; she is also a single mother determined to be a good parent. As the novel begins, she has just vacated her New York apartment for a house in the suburbs, intent on escaping memories of her husband's death by cancer. Unfortunately, just after she moves, she begins to receive a fresh crop of threatening phone calls and letters. Hate mail is an occupational hazard for a new anchor, it seems, not to be taken too seriously unless, as in this case, the ante gets raised. Eliza finds herself threatened by several obsessives, two of whom may be dangerous, one of whom has killed before. These people are clever, not easy to detect or to catch. 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. This is an excellent psychological thriller that will keep readers pleasantly bound to the page. Author tour.
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Product Description
Someone wants to get closer to news anchorwoman Eliza Blakeeven if it takes murder to do it. In order to stay alive Eliza has to answer the five key questions: What does Eliza do to get letters from fans and threatening notes from fanatics? When should Eliza start worrying that she and her young daughter are in mortal danger? Where is the stalker hiding? Is her tormentor right before her eyes? Why have so many people become obsessed with getting closer to her? Who is no longer content with just watching? It could be anyone with a television set. Tense and terrifying, Close to You is Mary Jane Clark at her page-turning best.
