Lights Out Tonight

May 15, 2006
Bestseller Clark (Dancing in the Dark
) delivers another well-crafted thriller. When Caroline Enright, a 34-year-old film and drama critic for TV's KEY to America
morning show, lands an assignment to cover the Warrenstown, Mass., theater festival, she anticipates combining it with a getaway with her new husband, Nick, and a chance to bond with her aloof 20-year-old stepdaughter, Meg, who's an apprentice at the festival. The last thing Caroline expects as she leaves New York City for the scenic Berkshires is that she'll have to draw on her journalistic skills to unveil a ruthless murderer. With only six months of broadcast experience under her belt, Caroline has a lot to prove with the piece she has planned about Oscar-winning actress Belinda Winthrop, who's starring in a production of a new play rumored to be a contender for a Pulitzer Prize. But when Belinda mysteriously disappears, Caroline launches herself into an investigation—and finds Meg's life and her own in danger. With fresh characters, an idyllic setting and plot twists that will grip readers until the suspenseful resolution, Clark's latest is sure to be a summer hit. Author tour.

June 1, 2006
Taking center stage in the latest Clark novel set in the fictional KEY News broadcast studio is film and theater critic Caroline Enright, whose love of the Academy Award-winning actress Belinda Winthrop provides her with the right background to review a new play in which Winthrop is starring at a festival in the Berkshires. It's a perfect opportunity to get away with her new husband, Nick, too, even if it means his less-than-accepting college-age daughter will be in tow. What should be a weekend of great theater and quaint surroundings turns violent as dead bodies begin to pile up. Quick and light; perfect summer reading.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2006, American Library Association.)