Karebear Central

My mother loves to read and recently has started looking at rummage sales to find some books. She thought she was grabbing a book written by Mary Higgens Clark. It’s actually a book by Mary Jane Clark.
I didn’t know what to expect really. Basically the story is about a news television station and a missing vial of anthrax. I actually learned a lot about anthrax from this book–especially that it takes a few days to kill someone. The story starts with the killer leaving a card for Jerome Henning, the book producer for the news show. The story mostly is from the point of view of Jerome’s ex girlfriend who has moved on and had 2 kids with someone else. He gives her a manuscript to read and it become really apparent that something he wrote in the manuscript could be what killed him and more people to come. What would people kill for the world not to know–is someone a frequent traveler to a drug treatment center, could it be the office affairs, could it be the sexual harrasment going on? It is really hard for a normal sane person to understand how something like drug treatment would cause some to kill. 

I was pleasantly surprised by this book.  I usually catch onto the clues of who the killer is, but this book actually surprised me.  I never even guessed who the killer was.  I am hoping it was just that good of writing, not that I am losing my smartness.

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