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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  ## Books By Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark
  
  
  
  
  
  He Sees You When You’re Sleeping
  
  
  
  
  
  Deck the Halls
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Books By Mary Higgins Clark
  
  
  
  
  
  Nighttime Is My Time
  
  
  
  
  
  The Second Time Around
  
  
  
  
  
  Kitchen Privileges
  
  
  
  
  
  Mount Vernon Love Story
  
  
  
  
  
  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?
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Books By Carol Higgins Clark
  
  
  
  
  
  Popped
  
  
  
  
  
  Ji