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The Second Time Around
The Second Time Around
Author: Mary Higgins Clark
The "Queen of Suspense," Mary Higgins Clark, delivers a gripping tale of deception and tantalizing twists that might have been ripped from today's headlines. — When Nicholas Spencer, the charismatic head of a company that has developed an anticancer vaccine, disappears without a trace, reporter Marcia "Carley" DeCarlo is assigned the story. Word ...  more »
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PBS Market Price: $8.09 or $4.19+1 credit
ISBN-13: 9780743412629
ISBN-10: 0743412621
Publication Date: 2004
Pages: 400
Rating:
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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3.7 stars, based on 310 ratings
Publisher: Pocket
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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cam avatar reviewed The Second Time Around on + 13 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
This is the first MHC book I've read. It was definitely a good read. There are 2 plots going on in this story and both were good. Nicholas Spencer is developing an anticancer vaccine but then disappears and millions of dollars are missing from the company. Carley DeCarlo is a reporter who is assigned to the case. She doesn't believe that Nicholas was a con man who swindled people out of money to invest in the Gen-Stone Pharmaceutical company. She also believes after investigations that someone in Gen-Stone was purposely sabotaging the anticancer vaccine.
To make matters more interesting there is a psychopath on the loose. Ned's wife died in a horrible accident and he believes Nicholas Spencer and everyone connected is to blame. Ned sold his house and invested money into Gen-Stone and then lost everything when the scandal came out. How many people will he hurt or kill before he can be stopped?
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Helpful Score: 1
A reporter must find out if the missing CEO is dead or has disappeared with the life savings of his employees. Too complicate matters, his wife is the reporter's step-sister. Typical Mary Higgins Clark.
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very good book w/ great twists
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One never tires of reading Mary Higgins Clark!
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Very good Clark novel
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reviewed The Second Time Around on + 13 more book reviews
Very interesting plot and characters. Kept me hooked.
Stacy1 avatar reviewed The Second Time Around on + 90 more book reviews
Carley is the stepsister of Lynn Spencer, whose charismatic husband, Nicholas, dies in the crash of his small plane as he is fleeing arrest for looting the medical company he founded, which had made claims of a cancer cure, now proved false. Myriad investors have lost much, sometimes everything; one is Ned Cooper, whose beloved wife died as a consequence of Nicholas Spencer's thievery, and who determines to take revenge, setting off on a killing spree. Assigned to do a feature about the Spencer case, Carley digs deep, uncovering clues to a conspiracy within Spencer's medical company, as well as to the possibility that the cancer cure worked after all. Can she get to the bottom of the mess before Ned Cooper, or the possible conspirators, take her out?
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If only there were a cure for cancer and other ailments. This was another great one by Clark.
tigers9494 avatar reviewed The Second Time Around on + 49 more book reviews
Took a while to get into, but turned out good...
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love this author...
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I think this book is a little different than some of her other books. It's about a reporter named Carley that has been asked by her stepsister to prove that she didn't help her husband steal the life savings of his employees. Carley herself becomes a target herself when she starts searching for the truth.
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Very good.
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Excellent read, kept me listening to the final tracks.


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