title: Pretend You Don't See Her
author:  Mary Higgins Clark 
description: Katy Kelly USA Today <i>Pretend You Don't See Her</i> should come with a warning. Start it in the evening and you'll be reading way late into the night.... This one is well worth the lost sleep.<br /><br />The New York Times Book Review The built-in risks, mystery, and strain of living under cover provide just the right foundation for the many-layered plot of Mary Higgins Clark's latest novel...."<br /><br />Ruth Coughlin Detroit News The chase is on, with the story line zipping along at comet speed.... What's amazing is how expertly Clark manages to keep us hooked time after time, and even better, create new plots, each as fresh as a mountain stream.
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  Later Lacey tried to find comfort in the thought that even if she had arrived
  seconds earlier, rather than being in time to help she would have died with
  Isabelle.
  
  
  But it didn't happen that way. Using the key she had been given as realtor,
  she had entered the duplex apartment on East Seventieth Street and called
  Isabelle's name in the exact instant that Isabelle screamed "Don't . . . !"
  and a gunshot rang out.
  
  
  Faced with a split-second decision to run or to hide, Lacey slammed the
  apartment door shut and slipped quickly into the hall closet. She had not even
  had time to fully close that door before a sandy-haired, well-dressed man came
  running down the stairs. Through the narrow opening she could see his face
  clearly, and it became imprinted on her mind. In fact, she had seen it before,
  only hours ago. The expression was now viciously cold, but clearly this was
  the same man to whom 