Pretend You Don't See Her

Title:  Pretend You Don't See Her


Author:  Mary Higgins Clark


Summary:  Lacey, a real estate agent, is in charge of the apartment of a young woman named Heather who was killed in a car crash.  When the mother of Heather, Isabelle, is murdered while looking through Heather's diary, Lacey is just coming in.  The murderer ran away, but as Isabelle dies, she tells Lacey to take the diary to Heather's father, Jimmy.  When it is evident that Lacey's life was in danger, she must go into a Witness Protection Program and move to Minnesota under another name.  She joins an exercise club, meets a young man, and gets a job.  On one of her phone calls with her mother, Mona, Lacey tells her where she is.  Mona buys a newspaper from Minnesota, just to feel close to Lacey, and takes it to a restaurant on her date.  Someone in the restaurant sees the newspaper and tells the murderer.  The murderer is back on her tail.  She evades him, goes to the airport, and flies to New York.  The murderer trails her, but the police are also trailing her.  The murderer comes down to shoot her, but she throws a glass paperweight and his bullet goes astray.  The police come in and catch him.


Stars:  5 for a great plot, but this is not a genre I like. 


Violence:  6, because there were some shootouts and Isabelle is shot. 


Romance:  4 for a kiss on the cheek, and some romantic worries and references to "a man in her life." 


Language:  3 for exclamations including the name of God or Jesus. 


Appropriate for:  Older young adults/younger adults, if that makes any sense.  Okay, there's the young adult category.  So the older end of that category.  Then there's the adult category.  The younger end of that category, see? 


Other:  This book kept my attention.  I was so caught up in Lacey's troubles that I had to keep reading.