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A Cry in the Night
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| Author | Mary Higgins Clark |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | Mystery |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
| Released | September 1982 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover, Paperback) |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-671-43128-5 |
A Cry in the Night, written by best-selling author Mary Higgins Clark, takes the reader on a ride of mystery, fear, and confusion through the eyes of narrator, Jenny MacPartland. It was published in 1982.
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Jenny MacPartland is a divorced single mother living in New York City and is juggling raising her two young girls Beth and Tina and making ends meet. One night while working at the art gallery Jenny meets the wealthy and successful artist, Erich Krueger, and he instantly sweeps her off her feet. She drops everything and marries Erich within a month after meeting him. She allows him to adopt her two children from her previous marriage to Kevin MacPartland and they move away to his beautiful mansion in Minnesota.
Before long strange things start happening. Erich’s eccentricities are brought out into the light. He leaves for a cabin in the woods for days at a time and does not allow anyone to come near the cabin while he is there. He has a strange obsession with his dead mother, Caroline, who Jenny looked very similar to, and even requires Jenny to wear her old nightgown. He wants the house kept meticulously clean and cuts Jenny off from the world.
When Jenny’s ex-husband, Kevin, is found dead in the lake by the Krueger home, Jenny begins to suspect that Erich was involved. When she decides to question Erich, he goes insane. He kidnaps her children and Jenny decides that the only way she can find her children is to go to the cabin the woods. There she discovers the terrible secret of the Krueger family and now has the evidence she needs to leave Erich and save her children.
- Jenny MacPartland – a divorced single mother, narrator
- Erich Krueger – a painter whom Jenny marries in the course of the story
- Kevin MacPartland – Jenny's lazy ex-husband; an actor
- Beth MacPartland – Jenny's first daughter
- Tina MacPartland – Jenny's second daughter
- A Cry in the Night was made into a TV movie in 1992.
A Cry in the Night at http://www.imdb.com
Mary Higgins Clark at Fantasticfiction.com http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/mary-higgins-clark/cry-in-night.htm
