title: Nighttime Is My Time
author:  Mary Higgins Clark 
description: This time out, Clark ups the ante from her standard female-in-peril plot to three females in peril, all targets of a serial killer who fancies himself a night-hunting predator: "I am the Owl," he whispers to himself after he has selected his prey, "and nighttime is my time." The Owl kills his first victim, then it's off to attend his 20th high school reunion at Stonecroft Academy in Cornwall-on-Hudson, where he intends to do in the last several women who humiliated him when he was a geeky high school student. Jean Sheridan, one of the intended victims, was actually nice to the Owl, but he decides she has to die anyway because someone told him she once made fun of him. Jean's daughter, Lily, whom Jean gave away at birth, must also die, for obscure reasons, as must Laura, the class beauty. In the course of stalking and capturing these three, the Owl kills several innocent bystanders just to vent his anger and alludes to dozens more he has slaughtered over the years. The game here is figuring out which of the men who come to the reunion, all former nerds, is the Owl: Carter Stewart, now a genius playwright; Mark Fleischman, a psychiatrist with a syndicated television program; Gordon Amory, television magnate; Robby Brent, famous comedian; or Jack Emerson, local real estate tycoon. If the killer's animal fetish is the Owl, then Clark's is surely the red herring as she cleverly throws them in by the dozen, providing irrefutable proof that first one man, then another, must be guilty. Since any of the men might be the killer, the final revelation is anticlimactic, but Clark's multitude of fans will be happy enough to spend time with the innocent and imperiled Jean and to participate in the guessing game. <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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  BY MARY HIGGINS CLARK
  
  
  The Shadow of Your Smile  
  Just Take My Heart  
  Where Are You Now?  
  Ghost Ship (Illustrated by Wendell Minor)  
  I Heard That Song Before  
  Two Little Girls in Blue  
  No Place Like Home  
  Nighttime Is My Time  
  The Second Time Around  
  Kitchen Privileges  
  Mount Vernon Love Story  
  Silent Night / All Through the Night  
  Daddy’s Little Girl  
  On the Street Where You Live  
  Before I Say Good-bye  
  We’ll Meet Again  
  All Through the Night  
  You Belong to Me  
  Pretend You Don’t See Her  
  My Gal Sunday  
  Moonlight Becomes You  
  Silent Night  
  Let Me Call You Sweetheart  
  The Lottery Winner  
  Remember Me  
  I’ll Be Seeing You  
  All Around the Town  
  Loves Music, Loves to Dance  
  The Anastasia Syndrome and Other Stories  
  While My Pretty One Sleeps  
  Weep No More, My Lady  
  Stillwatch  
  A Cry in the Night  
  The Cradle Will Fall  
  A Stranger Is Watching  
  Where Are the Children?
  
  
  BY MARY HIGGINS CLARK AND CAROL H