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  • Bibliography:
    18 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 1998
  • Latest Book:
    January 2014
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About the Author

Mary Jane Clark's media books have appeared on the New York Times, USA Today, Publishers Weekly and other national bestseller lists. Her books have been published in 23 languages.

The daughter of a special agent with the FBI who uncovered Russian espionage during the Cold War, her interest in suspense started at an early age. She spent three decades at CBS News' New York City headquarters... where she began her career as a desk assistant after graduating with degrees in journalism and political science from the University of Rhode Island.... and worked her way through the ranks to become a producer and writer.

Mary Jane married Mary Higgins Clark's son, and is the mother of two grown children and has homes in New Jersey and Florida.

Full Series List in Order

KEY News Network

1 - Do You Want to Know a Secret? (Nov-1998)
2 - Do You Promise Not to Tell? (Aug-1999)
3 - Let Me Whisper in Your Ear (Sep-2000)
4 - Close to You (Sep-2001)
5 - Nobody Knows (Aug-2002)
6 - Nowhere to Run (Aug-2003)
7 - Hide Yourself Away (Jul-2004)
8 - Dancing in the Dark (Jul-2005)
9 - Lights Out Tonight (Jul-2006)
10 - When Day Breaks (Jun-2007)
11 - It Only Takes a Moment (Aug-2008)
12 - Dying For Mercy (Aug-2009)

Wedding Cake Mysteries

1 - To Have and to Kill (Jan-2011)
1.5 - The Bracelet (Jan-2012)
2 - The Look of Love (Jan-2012)
2.5 - The Friend (Dec-2012)
3 - Footprints in the Sand (Jan-2013)
4 - That Old Black Magic (Jan-2014)

Book List in Order: 18 titles



  • SECRETS CAN REALLY KILL YOUR CAREER. Beautiful New York TV anchorwoman Eliza Blake has a past to hide. Her popular co-anchor has a scandal he'd die to keep secret. The next President's pretty wife wants desperately to avoid an indecent exposure. A...



  • TV producer Farrell Slater has stumbled onto a story that might save her career ... or get her killed. A prestigious New York auction house just sold a Faberge egg for six million dollars, but Farrell knows it is a fake. So does a college student who...



  • A tension-filled thriller from a rising star writer, Let Me Whisper in Your Ear is Mary Jane Clark's best book yet.Reporter Laura Walsh's KEY News colleagues jokingly call her the "Angel of Death" because of her uncanny ability to have celebrities' o...



  • SHE THOUGHT SHE'D FOUND SAFETY. In front of the camera, as anchorwoman for KEY Evening Headlines, she's savvy, sexy, and sophisticated. But when she steps out of the spotlight, Eliza Blake is far more vulnerable than her devoted viewers would ever i...



  • NOBODY KNOWS THE DARK SECRETS. Cassie Sheridan has all a television news reporter could want: an important beat in Washington, D.C., and a skyrocketing career. But then, she makes a critical mistake. Suddenly, her career is in shambles. NOBODY KN...



  • WHEN THERE'S NO ONE TO TRUST... Anthrax, smallpox, plague: as medical producer for television's highly-rated morning news program, Annabelle Murphy makes her living explaining horrific conditions to the nation. So when a KEY News colleague dies with...



  • WATCH YOUR BACK. TRUST NO ONE. Nobody in this perfect seaside resort town ever imagined that the body of a missing heiress might be found deep in a tunnel beneath her family's crumbling Newport estate. Nobody, that is, but the last person to see her ...



  • Trying to mix business with pleasure, KEY News correspondent Diane Mayfield has brought her children and her sister to the New Jersey shore town of Ocean Grove to investigate a story on "girls who cry wolf" for the season premiere of Hourglass, telev...



  • 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. What kind of person... Gets what ...






  • Murder in the morning When Constance Young, the undisputed star of morning television, is found dead at the bottom of her swimming pool, her colleague Eliza Blake is shocked. Determined to discover who wanted Constance out of the way--and why--she...



  • It Only Tales a Moment for life to change forever. A seasoned television professional -- the host of the top-rated KEY News morning show -- Eliza Blake has reported on tragedies many times from behind the anchor's desk . . . and she has survived dev...



  • The recently renovated Pentimento located in New York's exclusive moneyed enclave of Tuxedo Park, is no ordinary estate. Strange secrets have been ingeniously built into its fountains, frescoes, statues, and architecture -- clues to a bizarre mystery...



  • Piper Donovan never imagined that decorating wedding cakes could be so dangerous! A struggling actress with no immediate prospects and a recently broken engagement, Piper moves back in with her parents to take stock of her life. She steps tentatively...



  • Piper Donovan adores her brother. Her sister-in-law is another matter. Self-centered, greedy, and completely annoying, Zara is, inexplicably, the love of Robert's life. Piper puts up with her to maintain peace within the family. When an exquisite ...



  • Nestled in the Hollywood Hills, the ultra-luxurious Elysium spa and plastic surgery center caters to the rich and famous who are in need of "refreshing" -- a nip here, a tuck there, a little Botox, a little detox. When Jillian Abernathy, Elysium's o...



  • Like a billion people on earth, aspiring actress Piper Donovan is a fervent Facebook follower. But what she doesn't know is that a "friend" is following her. Possibly . . . stalking. A fan who starts by using the same beauty salon eventually comes cl...



  • It's the dead of winter and struggling actress and wedding-cake decorator Piper Donovan is thrilled to be in warm and romantic Sarasota, Florida, enjoying the powdery white beaches, soothing seas, and golden sunsets over the Gulf of Mexico. She and h...



  • That Old Black Magic is New York Times bestselling author Mary Jane Clark’s savory and suspenseful confection filled with murder, mystery, history and voodoo, in which Piper Donovan must unmask a devious killer striking in New Orleans’s legendary...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Mary Jane Clark has published 18 books.

Mary Jane Clark does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, That Old Black Magic, was published in January 2014.

The first book by Mary Jane Clark, Do You Want to Know a Secret?, was published in November 1998.

Yes. Mary Jane Clark has 2 series.