Clark, Mary Higgins

As it was in the beginning / Mary Higgins Clark -- Who shot Mrs. Byron Boyd? / Amanda Cross -- Dog television / Robert Barnard -- Goodbye, Sue Ellen / Gillian Roberts -- Even Steven / Taylor McCafferty -- Water / Sally Gunning -- You never know / Sarah Shankman -- The return of Ma Barker / Gary Alaxander -- A romance in the Rockies / K.K. Beck -- Checkout / Susan Dunlap -- The Nieman Marcus body / Lucretia Grindle -- Anna and the snake people / Ed Gorman -- "...That married dear old Dad" / Margaret Maron -- Parris Green / Carole Nelson Douglas -- Kim's game / M.D. Lake -- Arsenic and old ideas / Jan Grape --Cold and deep / Frances Fyfield.

A suspenseful, fast-paced holiday story about the most painful Christmas Eve for a mother whose child follows a thief into the subway in New York and into the most dangerous adventure of his life.

Here, for the first time ever in one volume, are three of Clark's most gripping page-turners.

"Just weeks after discovering a letter that may have been written by Jesus Christ himself, biblical scholar Jonathan Lyons is found shot to death in his study. Police suspect his wife, who suffers from Alzheimer's, murdered him in a jealous rage. But the priceless parchment is missing, and Jonathan had recently confided to a family friend his suspicions that someone he once trusted had designs on the ancient document. It is up to his daughter, Mariah, to clear her mother of murder charges and unravel the real mystery behind her father's death -- before her own revelations become her last."--back cover.

Thirty-two year old Alexandra Moreland is a rising star in the architectural world and lives in Manhattan. But when she is plagued by identity theft, her successful life is turned upside down. Someone has gained access to her bank accounts, credit cards, personal background, and is now impersonating her. Then, with overwhelming circumstantial evidence stacked against her, Alexandra is arrested for the murder of a woman she claims she's never met. Or has she?.

Emily, one of three friends inseparable since childhood, becomes a pawn in a plan to save one life at the expense of another.

Nancy Harmon is leading a quiet life on Cape Cod, until a newspaper article and the disappearance of her two young children brings to light the story of her first marriage, the deaths of her first two children, and her trial for murder in California.