Let Me Whisper in Your Ear
Laura Walsh, a KEY News reporter, shares a professional background  similar to Mary Jane Clark's. Both Clark and the heroine of her new romantic  thriller spent time writing obituaries of celebrities who aren't dead yet, a  ghoulish job that seems to be a steppingstone to greater responsibility. In  Laura's case, it is correspondent for Hourglass, a60 Minutestype of  show whose star, Gwyneth Gilpatric, has taken a very personal interest in her.  When Laura pitches a story on the now-defunct Palisades Amusement Park, where  the remains of a 12-year-old boy who disappeared from the park over 30 years ago  have just been found, she has no idea how close to home her investigation will  lead. And when Gwyneth (a Diane Sawyer look-alike) plunges to her death from her  terrace during her annual New Year's Eve party, Laura is still in the dark about  the star's connection with the park, the missing boy, and her own father, whose  ties to that murky past unravel as more killings occur. In fact, Laura's not  particularly quick on the uptake, although she's certainly young, attractive,  and blow-dried enough to play the-woman-in-danger role in this somewhat tepid  story. More interesting by far is her best friend Francheska, whose married  lover, a plastic surgeon trying to keep his Parkinson's disease a secret from  his patients (particularly Gwyneth), tips Laura off whenever someone rich and  famous enough to have an obituary prewritten goes on life support. Francheska's  role in the plot is slowly revealed in a not very surprising finale that wraps  up everything quite tidily. Not Clark's best effort, this novel will nonetheless  please fans of the genre who are more interested in the romance than the  thrills.--Jane Adams--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.