Customer Reviews
If you like this author, you'll love this book - By: Kona, 18 Feb 2008 
Darcy & Erin have a friend who's doing research on the kind of people who place personal ads; they're helping her by answering some personals & going out on dates. Erin chooses one where the man signs himself, "Loves music, loves to dance" & he does, but he's also a serial killer.
This is my third Mary Higgins Clarke novel & it follows her exact formula: A beautiful heroine is stalked by a perverted psycho. She's involved with a bunch of red herrings who could alll be the baddie & we won't know the villain's true identity until the last few pages, when our damsel is rescued by Prince Charming. There's no variation from the recipe; it's always the same.
Clark's books are quick reads, good for the beach or a plane trip, but way too predictable & poorly written for me to read anymore of them. There are too many characters to keep track of, we're given way too much useless information about them, the dialog is full of grandiose words & phrases that aren't realistic, & we know the heroine will solve the mystery in the end. I like this book's title & the idea of a killer finding his victims through personals, but it's just not very well done.
Girls Should Never Look for Guys in the Personals - By: Sandra Sherman, 05 Jan 2008 
Erin & Darcy have been friends since they were kids. They are best friends who do almost everything together. Erin is a jewellery designer who has just landed a job that will make her career. Darcy is an interior designer with a flourishing business.
When a friend asks them to help her gather data for a televison program she's doing on dating from the personals, the girls agree. After alll, it would be fun, answereing a few ads, going out on a few dates. A lark.
And then Darcy doesn't come back from one of the dates. Her body is discovered with a dancing shoe on one foot. Erin decides to date the same men as her friend had, hoping she'll find out who the killer is. However, Darcy wasn't the first victim the killer found though a personal ad and, to his way of thinking, she won't be the last, because now he has his sights set on Erin.
It's always been a mystery to me how anyone can believe what they read in these ads. People lie. I mean you could be going out with a serial killer, as Darcy did, or with a rapist, or the very least, probably someone who is stepping out on his wife. Anyway, one thing is guaranteed for sure, if you read this book, you won't be answering any ads from the Sunday paper, or any other paper either. That said, I couldn't put this one down, it's a super thriller.
average - By: Lindymck, 20 Dec 2007 not very exciting, didnt get that i cant put it down feeling, got so bored with it that i read the end to find out what happened. written in the style of sparkle hayter so if you enjoyed the style & pace of the book she is an author i would recommend checking out.
wont be rushing out to get anyof her other books im afraid.
Not Her Best - By: Ek Stewart, 30 Jan 2006 
I am a real fan of Mary Higgins-Clark but I have to say I found this book very disappointing. Compared to her usual high standard of writing that I have become accustomed, I found this book slow & predictable. The plot is very interesting but the style in which it has been written is not engaging. I did like the main characters & the overalll story but I would not recommend this for anyone who is wanting a reallly good thriller.
Just OK - By: , 28 Aug 2004 This is the first book of Mry Higgins Clarks i have read & i have to say it was just ok. I was a little dissappointed after the reviews raved so hard about this book that it was predictable. I knew who had done it long before the end. This is probably due to the many thrillers that have been read before this & i have to say it was nothing spectactular as a result. I am told that the style of MHC stays the same in most of her books so this will be the last i read for a while. The book does however as another reviewer states, highlight the dangers of blind dating through dating columns & i suppose still applies in modern day to the internet this is a very important message in the book & feel that credit should be given for this. The story itself is generallly good the suspense is there , the characters are very believable (even if predictable)and like i said the book is ok. Just dont expect a riveting read! it is ok & easy going.
