Pretend You Don’t See Her by Mary Higgins Clark is a mystery/thriller from one of the greats (3.25/5 stars)

Pretend You Don’t See Her by Mary Higgins Clark is a mystery/thriller from one of the greats. We alternate between the point of view from multiple characters.

Lacey is moving up the ladder in Manhattan real estate. While showing a luxury condo, she is witness to a murder and the dying pleas of the victim to give her dead daughter’s journal to her father. She is then placed into the witness protection program in Minnesota, until the killer traces her to Minneapolis.

The plot here moves a bit slowly for me. I wasn’t fully invested until we got to the 70% mark, when things really started to pick up. And I figured out who the big bad was fairly early.

Lacey was somewhat confusing to me because she would sometimes make really good decisions but other times would do something quite foolish. There were also a ton of characters to keep track of, which was hard to follow at times.

I received a copy of this book to review. All opinions contained herein are my own.

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