In Lille, a promotion tour of Mary Higgins Clark, 91, with her daughter Carol, 50, who is also a writer. The two women are very complicit. At the press conference, Mary Higgins CLARK talks about their collaboration while Carol tells an anecdote from a bookseller. During the signing session in the Le Furet bookstore, fans expressed their admiration while Marie HIGGINS CLARK found "great to be able to meet readers". In front of the bookstore, impatient fans have been waiting, for several hours for some, to meet the queen of thriller.
Mary HIGGINS CLARK is in Nantes, on the occasion of the release of her latest novel "Un jour tu verras". This American woman started writing best sellers to raise her five children after her husband died. To those who see in her work a reflection of today’s America, that of imbalances and violence, she replies that "this violence is identical to that of other countries"... " The country is experiencing more violence, but this is also the case in France, England and Germany". She recalls the hostage taking that took place in the kindergarten of Neuillys-sur-Seine: "it would be a good story for me".
As a guest on stage, Mary Higgins CLARK, an American novelist specializing in detective novels, who has enjoyed great success across the Atlantic and in France, answers Bruno MASURE’s questions about the money she has earned with her books and the recipes for her success: "be a good storyteller," suggest rather than show, as Hitchcock did.
Report on the visit of writer Mary HIGGINS CLARK in Paris on the occasion of the release of her new bestseller, "Ni vu ni connu". She’s treated like a queen.. In her limousine, she tells how to write a good book: "first a good story and a heroine, usually young"... She then visits the crime scene reconstruction of her latest novel, where she explains how she manages to release a book a year. She believes that "it’s not difficult". I work on a computer. It goes very fast, I can write up to 20 pages a day."
To Bernard PIVOT’s question: "Do you like killing in your books?" the writer Mary HIGGINS CLARK answers: "No more than necessary". She says that violence is always suggested in her books "because it gives more fear" and that what she really likes is "when I scare myself"... She says she has never had a criminal impulse, except for her electrician, whom she will kill in her next book...
Meeting with writer Mary HIGGINS CLARK in her home in New Jersey, USA. She admits that she "would like to write a more literary work, just to see if I can... but I would do it under an assumed name". She leaves her home to go to the beach of Spring Lake and show with humour a "crime scene" of one of her novels.
Writer Mary HIGGINS CLARK is the guest of Michèle BUR, on the occasion of the release of her latest novel "Un jour tu verras". Her words are translated by Jennifer VORMS LE MORVAN. She says she could not kill unless it was to save someone or if her grandchildren were attacked. According to her, the human being is the same everywhere on the planet. She explains that for her work she documents herself by attending trials and reading the papers on the various facts in the press.