A Stranger Is Watching
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| Author | Mary Higgins Clark |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Thriller novel |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Released | 1997 |
| Media Type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 256 pp (first edition hardcover) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-671-23071-9 (first edition hardcover) |
| Preceded by | Where Are The Children? |
| Followed by | The Cradle Will Fall |
A Stranger is Watching is a thriller novel written by Mary Higgins Clark and published in 1977.
[edit] Plot summary
The main characters in the novel are Steve Peterson, whose wife Nina was murdered two years before, his six-year-old son Neil, who witnessed the murder, and Sharon Martin, a young journalist who befriends them both. The novel opens as Steve and Sharon debate capital punishment. A young man named Ronald Thompson has been sentenced to death for Nina's murder. Sharon is against the death penalty and tries to save Thompson. Unknown to them, Thompson is actually innocent. The real killer is a psychopath named August Rommel Taggart, Arty for short. He kidnaps Sharon and Neil, hiding them under New York's famed Grand Central Station. The rest of the novel describes the race against time to save the three innocent victims.
[edit] Film Adaptations
The novel was made into a film in 1982. [1]
[edit] Reviews
The critics praised Clark both for her ability to create suspense and creating believeable characters.
