Lights Out Tonight

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New York Times bestselling author Mary Jane Clark ratchets up the tension in her tautest thriller yet.As KEY News film and theater critic, Caroline Enright knows her opinions have influenced the box office habits of millions of Americans. She has taken her fair share of irate phone calls, and even an occasional threat, from disgruntled movie producers and agents angered over her reviews. But she is unprepared when her trip to the Warrenstown Summer Playhouse is interrupted by murder. Traveling to the rolling Berkshire mountains to do a piece on the prestigious summer acting festival for the morning news show KEY to America, Caroline discovers that someone in this quaint college town has a secret worth killing over.

Caroline’s stepdaughter, Meg, is apprenticing at the festival and has a small part in a new play with Belinda Winthrop, a twenty-year veteran of Warrenstown, adding her renowned Oscar- and Tony-winning talents to the project. The opening night of the play is an unvarnished success, but no one, onstage or off, is safe.

Used to ferreting out the details of behind-the-scenes intrigue in Hollywood and on Broadway, Caroline must now turn her considerable journalistic skills to unmasking a murderer before she and Meg become the next victims of a ruthless killer possessing no shame or remorse. A killer living as a respected member of the community. A killer who can do literally anything at all and feel absolutely no guilt.

Lights Out Tonight is the ultimate mind game and proves why Mary Jane Clark is a master at the game of suspense.

In Mary Jane Clark’s latest blockbuster novel, you will enter the mind of a sociopath. It’s a place where the rules don’t apply. Where anything is fair game. And where murder is the ultimate means to an end…LIGHTS…Key News film and theatre critic Caroline Enright thinks her trip to a theatre festival in the beautiful Berkshire mountains of Massachusetts will be as easy as a summer breeze…until her complicated relationship with her stepdaughter, Meg, grows even more tense—and two of Meg’s friends are killed in what looks to be a tragic accident.

OUT…Soon a world-famous actress goes missing. An actress who has been the obsession of millions. Or maybe just the true obsession of one?

TONIGHT… As Caroline gets drawn into a web of ambition, cunning, and deception, she learns she can trust no one. Not even those closest to her. Because a sociopath will stop at nothing. And they wear the mask of a friend, a lover, a husband, or a wife…
With a Mary Jane Clark novel, every word is a clue.“A quintessential whodunit.”—Romantic Times BOOKreviews“Perfect summer reading.”—Booklist

MARY JANE CLARK is the author of nine novels, including Do You Want to Know a Secret?, Do You Promise Not To Tell?, Let Me Whisper in Your Ear, Close to You, Nobody Knows, Nowhere to Run, Hide Yourself Away, and Dancing in the Dark. She is a producer and writer at CBS News in New York City and lives in New Jersey.

“Isabel Keating’s well-regulated pace maintains the story’s suspense.” —AudioFile on Nowhere to Run

“A quintessential whodunit.” —Romantic Times BOOKreviews

“Perfect summer reading.” —Booklist

“Plot twists that will grip readers until the suspenseful resolution.” —Publishers Weekly

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