The Nature of Things

I may have read a Mary Higgins Clark book at sometime in the past, but I honestly can't remember what and when, so I don't know if this book is typical of her writing. She's been very successful with her suspense novels over the years and one frequently sees her on best-seller lists. Indeed, this book was on  The New York Times  best-seller list for a while (and may still be), but it's really hard to understand why. It is a particularly bland and simplistic piece of writing.  Simple declarative sentence follows simple declarative sentence  ad nauseum  and we get to see the story from the perspective of virtually every character in the book. A bit fewer perspectives would have given a cleaner and more readable book, in my opinion, and a few more complex compound sentences might have brought more variety and interest to the reading. Oh, well... While I was reading the book, news broke that a historian of early Christianity at Harvard Divinity School had decoded a ...