A Stranger is Watching

In this breathtaking shocker by the gifted author of Where Are the Children?, a series of brutal and terrifying murders is the starting point for a story of such astonishing speed, drama and terror that the reader is unable to put the book down without finishing it-and is held in suspense until the final, surprising page.

At the heart of Mary Higgins Clark's new book is a group of people whose lives have been shattered by a murder and who are still trying to cope with its consequences: Steve, whose young wife, Nina, was killed in her own home; Neil, their six-year-old son, who witnessed the killing; Sharon, a journalist who has fallen in love with Steve and is trying to win young Neil's trust and affection; and Ronald Thompson, the man convicted of the killing, who continues to maintain that he is innocent as the hour of his execution approaches...