Mary Higgins Clark, Where Are You Now? Mary Higgins Clark's novel Where Are You Now? catches the attention of even the casual browser in a library or bookstore with its unusual -- and effective -- title. Readers of fiction are accustomed to novels that either are told in the first-person -- with a narrator who uses the pronoun "I" while telling the story -- or else or are told in third-person narration that relates the doings of the characters without much attention to the impersonal narrator. But how many novels are told in the second person? Mary Higgins Clark's novel actually uses the first-person in telling the story -- the book is narrated by Carolyn MacKenzie, a twenty-six-year-old woman (who has completed law school and a clerkship with a judge in New York City, but who is not officially a lawyer) who investigates the central mystery of the story herself, and who tells her own story here -- but it catches our attention with its second-person title. This...

In a sense, the immediacy of her title -- which seems to address itself directly to the reader -- is the perfect advertisement for the immediacy of the suspense: both grab the reader by the collar and do not let go.
The question that forms the title of Mary Higgins Clark's book is also the one question that has weighed on the mind of the narrator, Carolyn MacKenzie, for years. It is the obsessive thought that weaves its way through Carolyn's daily life, every day, thinking about her brother Charles, known to Carolyn and her mother by his family nickname, Mack. That is because…