Product Description

Lacey Farrell is witness to a horrific murder, and to the last words of the dying victim, Isabelle. Now, she's under witness protection - with a new life, new name and the beginnings of a new romance with radio talk show host Tom Lynch. He doesn't know who she really is ...but someone does. Someone who's hunted her down. Someone who knows what she saw and what she learned from Isabelle. When Lacey realises the danger she is in, she knows that only she can stop a relentless killer from claiming another life: hers ...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #14615 in Books
• Published on: 2004-02-02
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 320 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
Lacey Farrell, the heroine of Mary Higgins Clark's 15th novel, is having a bit of an identity crisis. While working as a real estate agent in New York, Lacey witnessed a client's murder, and now she's in hiding with a new name and a new life. But changing her identity doesn't completely remove Lacey from the web of danger and deceit that surrounds the crime; new clues keep popping up that suggest some kind of link between Lacey's family and the murder. Meanwhile, a new man comes into the heroine's life, further complicating an already murky situation. As any fan will tell you, Mary Higgins Clark never fails to deliver plot twists and turns that are as unexpected as they are thrilling.

About the Author
Mary Higgins Clark is the author of twenty-two worldwide bestselling works of fiction and a memoir. She lives in Saddle River, New Jersey, with her husband.

Customer Reviews

Fast-paced thriller
I think I have all books by Mary Higgins Clark. This one is definitely her best. The story is credible, fast paced and exciting. You can't wait to turn the page to see what will happen.

Lacey Farrel, a real estate agent, becomes close friends with the mother of a girl who has recently died in an accident. Her mother is worried that it might not have been an accident at all. But the mother's concerns are ignored, until she is murdered - and Lacey is a witness to her brutal murder.

The only one to identify the killer, she is quickly placed in a witness protection program and cut off from her family. Time passes as she tries to survive, lonely in a strange city, far from her family, until she decides to take fait into her own hands. She decides to start hunting for the killer herself.

I've recently re-read this book and found it as thrilling as the first time (I'd forgotten the plot). The back of the book says "This book should come with a warning: start it in the evening and you'll be reading way late into the night". Not an exaggeration.

Full of twists and turns
First book I've read by this author......

Lacey Farrell, a real estate agent witnesses a murder and becomes a target herself.

Entered into the witness protection programme for her own safety it's not long before her would be assassin is hot on her heels.

A brilliant read, fast paced and full of twists and turns that will keep you turning the pages right til the end.

May have been the first, but won't be the last book I read by this author!!

Good the second time, too.
I just finished reading "Pretend You Don't See Her" for the second time. I will definitely be reading it a third time.

What I liked about the book:
It is highly believable that when a (in this case) young woman more or less witness the murder of another person, she will be in a great deal of danger. As she is the only one to have seen the, thought to be dead, murderer, her danger is even greater. Now the murderer, in this case Sandy Severano, has a great incentive to kill her, and he is eager to have it out with Lacey.

I also really liked the uncertainty about who was the murderer's informant. It wasn't until the last few chapters that it became really clear who the culprit was.

What was problematic about the book:
Would a woman who knew that she was on the hit-list of a murderer, and had been taught how to behave as a witness-program person, enter into her old field of work? Would she also take the chance of informing her family of where she was? Perhaps, but I'm not certain I buy that. This does increase the suspense in the book. Without having a clue of where Lacey was, Sandy would have a difficult time beginning his search for her. It still made me unhappy. This was the only difficulty I had with this book.

All in all I thorougly enjoyed this book and highly recommend it to any and all.