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LIGHTS OUT TONIGHT
Lights Out Tonight A Mystery Guild Main Selection
ISBN: 0312323174
St. Martin's Press
July 2006
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  Hardcover July 11, 2006
  Audio July 11, 2006
  Large Print August 2006

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.

"Perfect summer reading"
-- American Library Association


Publishers Weekly on Lights Out Tonight...

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.

Reviewed 2006-05-15


Lights Out Tonight, 2006 Dancing in the Dark, 2005 Hide Yourself Away, 2004 Nowhere to Run, 2003 Nobody Knows, 2002 Close to You, 2001 Let Me Whisper in Your Ear, 2000 Do You Promise Not to Tell, 1999 Do You Want to Know a Secret, 1998 When Day Breaks, 2007 It Only Takes a Moment