Where Are the Children?

 Where Are the Children?  by Mary Higgins Clark   223 pages

While living in California a woman's two kids go missing.   She is later brought up on charges of murdering them and serves time in the penitentiary for it.   When let out on a technicality she decides to run away from all the sorrow her life in Cally brought her and goes completely across country to start a new life in Cape Cod.   Some years pass and she meets a new man, falls in love, marries and eventually has two more kids.   Life is good no one including new hubby knows about her dark past and the murders but on the anniversary of the deaths of her first two children an article appears in the local newspaper about her case complete with her picture while the same day finds her present two kids missing!     Is she mental?   Is she a serial child killer or a victim of circumstance?   What the heck is going on?   The law and the town are closing in on her, she is freaking out!   Where are the children?????   A nail biter - this one.   I would recommend this book to middle-schoolers on up.   Learn to keep an eye on your little ones at all times - you never know what is in the mind of a person.

 - Shirley J.