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    All Through The Night: A Suspense Story
    All Through The Night: A Suspense Story
    All Through The Night: A Suspense Story
    Audiobook (abridged)2 hours

    All Through The Night: A Suspense Story

    Written by Mary Higgins Clark

    Narrated by Carol Higgins Clark

    4.5/5

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    Mary Higgins Clark, the Queen of Suspense, celebrates the season with this Christmas classic featuring two of her most beloved characters.

    All of Alvirah's deductive powers and Willy's world-class common sense are called upon as the two stumble into a Christmas mystery. A woman abandons her newborn at a Manhattan church. Simultaneously, a thief is absconding with a treasured artifact, a chalice adorned with a star-shaped diamond. To elude police, he grabs the stroller and disappears. Seven years later, the mother returns to the scene and finds Alvirah and Willy helping neighborhood kids prepare for a Christmas pageant at an after-school shelter. Soon the savvy sleuths set out to solve the puzzle of the missing child and chalice—and to unmask scam artists threatening to shut down the shelter.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateOct 1, 2008
    ISBN9780743582766
    Author

    Mary Higgins Clark

    The #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark wrote over forty suspense novels, four collections of short stories, a his­torical novel, a memoir, and two children’s books. With bestselling author Alafair Burke she wrote the Under Suspicion series including The Cinderella Murder, All Dressed in White, The Sleeping Beauty Killer, Every Breath You Take, You Don’t Own Me, and Piece of My Heart. With her daughter Carol Higgins Clark, she coauthored five suspense novels. More than one hundred million copies of her books are in print in the United States alone. Her books are international bestsellers.

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    • 4/5
      I thought the book was good. I would have enjoyed the unabridged better. It was not as detailed as many of MHC’s other books, which may be a selling point. Personally I enjoy lengthy reads they make exemplary distractions for ADD / ADHD suffers, in my opinion, and her work is wonderful. When my Granny was still alive, she loved her books.
      Although she had a beautiful articulate voice, I struggled with the narrator, and could not listen with my AirPods, because it sounded like I remember people speaking when they first got braces. That lispy sound was very distracting in a negative way for me.
      Overall, I would say if you’re looking for a short little story, this is a good choice.
    • 2/5
      Not for me, it was cheesy and predictable. Listened on audio.
    • 4/5
      A young unmarried woman leaves her newborn baby on the rectory doorstep of a church on Manhattan's Upper West Side. At that same moment, inside the church, a young man is in the process of stealing a treasured artifact - a chalice adorned with a single star-shaped diamond. Both the infant and the chalice subsequently disappear.Seven years later, a few weeks before Christmas - lottery winner turned amateur sleuth - Alvirah Meehan and her husband Willy, are busy helping Willy's sister Cordelia - a nun who runs a thrift store that doubles as an after-school shelter for the neighborhood kids - prepare for the upcoming Christmas pageant. However, the shelter's future is threatened when the city condemns the building for that use. Then it is further jeopardized when the nearby brownstone to which the shelter was to be moved turns out to have been willed to a young couple who were already tenants in the building.Convinced that something suspicious is going on, Alvirah refuses to believe that the will is genuine. She sets out to prove the couple are con artists. Soon she is involved with the mystery of the stolen chalice and child. While this was certainly a good story and I enjoyed reading it; I'm not entirely sure what grade to give it. In my opinion, the mystery was perhaps a little simplistic, and the plot seemed slightly hurried - at least to me. I would have preferred it if this story had been slightly longer, so that the plot could be better developed and the characters better drawn and more believable. Overall, I give this book a B+!
    • 3/5
      Not up to her usual standards. The story was nice but a little too simple and easy to guess what was next. Abandoned child, amateur sleuth, thief with a conscience.
    • 5/5
      This is a fantastic read. Short, but one of her best. Two sub-plots that do not hinder the other, tied together by a little girl named Star. The whole setting is easy to believe, so you can easily let yourself flow with the story. And it does flow; you will not wish to put it down. There are a couple things that are just too convient. But I guess you would need a much longer book to fit everything in. A good read for Christmas.
    • 5/5
      This book is about life, death, love, a missing child and a lost chalice. As St. Clement's church in New York City's upper west side is being locked up Lenny is hiding to see what he can steal, at the same time a lonely 18 yr old Sondra is watching so she can leave her newborn baby girl on the steps of the rectory and call in to tell them the baby is there, so the baby girl will be found and given a good home. As Sondra is waiting to use the pay phone down the street she hears the sirens and thinking her baby has been found she takes off back to collage crying . Lenny runs out of the church and finds the stroller sees just a couple shopping bags in it and thinks it's empty but will help him blend in to make his get away. He takes the baby back to his Aunts house and tells her the baby is his , and her mother was sick and had to go away. And says the baby's name is Star. 7 years later willy and his wife Alvirah are at a funeral for Bessie , when they notice the tenants of her upstairs apartment are acting the part of saddened family beside Bessie's sister Kate. Willy's sister a nun runs a thrift store and after care center where Stallina goes with her friend while her great-aunt is ill and the friends mom brings her home to the aunt every night. Lenny the thief comes back to town thinking he can take Star with him and make more runs and deals with her and have a easier time staying away from the cops. All this time the missing chalice fromt he church has been int he house of the great aunt and Stellina , because Lenny told his aunt that it was Stellina's mothers. Alvirah is trying to figure out why Bessie changed her will at the last minutes and not leave the house to her sister Kate , who was going to give it to the after school program, she is hunting down leads when her and the priest of the church notice a young sad girl keeps showing up at the church and leaving crying, they try to figure out what she needs help with because they can never et to her to talk to her , and she is Sondra there looking to find her baby when she finds out the baby was never found by the church , Alvirah offers to help her also ..... in the end Alvirah solves both mysteries
    • 2/5
      Eh. It was alright. It's obviously just meant to be a short little Christmas tale. I've read much better from Mary Higgins Clark.
    • 5/5
      Another great book by Mary Higgins Clark- a quick read for the Christmas season
    • 5/5
      As always the very best by the queen of suspense/intrigue ... wonderfully narrated by her daughter Carol. My all time favourite ...?????