Editorial Reviews
Product Description: A dashing ex-president and his young congresswoman bride become an irresistible sleuthing duo in four acclaimed stories from the Queen of Suspense.
Henry Parker Britland IV -- wealthy, worldly, and popular -- is enjoying an early retirement. His new wife, Sunday -- as clever as she is lovely -- has just been elected to Congress in a stunning upset victory that has made her a media darling. Henry and Sunday make a formidable team...and never more so than when they set out to solve baffling high-society crimes. From a long-unsolved case they reconstruct aboard the presidential yacht to a kidnapping that brings Henry frantically back to the White House, the former president and his bride engage in some of the most audacious and original sleuthing ever imagined. Only Mary Higgins Clark can so seamlessly meld spellbinding suspense, wit, and romance. My Gal Sunday is entertainment of the highest order.
Amazon.com Review:
Imagine Nick and Nora Charles with a taste for politics and none for gin, and you'd be pretty close to Mary Higgins Clark's Henry Parker Britland IV and his attractive young wife, Sandra O'Brien Britland, known as Sunday. Henry, possessor of an enormous inherited fortune and known as one of America's sexiest men, has just finished his second term as president of the United States and is happily retired at 44, puttering around his New Jersey country estate. Sunday, who bootstrapped her way up from a modest working-class background, is a junior congresswoman with a reputation for smarts. The two met, romantically enough, on the eve of Henry's leaving office, fell madly in love, and were married six weeks later. In this collection of four pleasantly readable stories, the sleuthing duo catch the murderer of a statesman's flashy amour, endure Sunday's kidnapping and mastermind her rescue, solve the 34-year-old mystery of the disappearance of a foreign prime minister from the Britland family yacht, and reunite a ransomed boy with his parents at Christmas. Of the four, "They All Ran After the President's Wife" may be the best plotted, and has a particularly amusing McGuffin in the character of a caviar-loving terrorist. While the suspense is on the mild side throughout, the romance is lighthearted but sincere, and the occasional flashes of wit are dryly appealing. It's a bonbon, to be enjoyed for its brief sweetness. --Barrie Trinkle
Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review
America's sweethearts solve the crimes and save the day, February 25, 2008
By
Hinkle Goldfarb (R.R. 1 Highway 162, Butte City, California)
M.H. Clark is a half-step above Harlequin romance novels in this connected series short stories involving the picture-perfect former president Henry Britland and his new wife, plucky Sandra "Sunday" O'Brien. Yes, you will be entertained, in that Ms Clark, as usual, keeps a lively plot and has interesting, if somewhat cartoonish, characters in each story. All romance is P.G. and except for some P.G. 13-style action in story number two, is actually not a bad book to read to more sophisticated children -- children who are at the upper limit of being read to. The last short story, a really implausible narrative of a five-year-old French boy lost in the New Jersey woods (don't ask) is good enough to induce tears and schmaltz worthy of "The Other Manger" by Molly Wadsworth.
4 stories in one, February 13, 2008
By
Donna M. Dwyer (Hurley, S.D. USA)
It was 4 different stories. Had the same main people but different stories. I have read better books by this author.
Less than Ms. Clark's Best, August 8, 2007
By
Sharon Adams (Columbus, Ohio)
My neighbor gave me this book. I suppose she remembered that I had told her that I had read several of Ms. Clark's novels. I have read her works but they were her earlier novels which I enjoyed. However I thought "My Gal Sunday" was a disappointing read. I actually had to force myself to finish this book. The husband and wife team were so sweet and dear that I thought I was reading a grade school story. The short stories didn't hold my interest and was glad to finish this book. Definitely not Ms. Clarks best. I'm sorry to say, there are no recommendation here. I'll probably try her new release just to see if her writing style has improved.
EHH...NOT MY CUP OF TEA, March 29, 2007
By
Lorena Merino (Lima, Peru)
as a mary higgins clark fan... i didnt enjoy this book that much it has 3 different stories in it, but i didnt find it that interesting..
What a Bomb, February 6, 2006
By
Patrick Picciarelli (Pittsburgh. PA)
I've read quite a few of Ms. Clark's books in the past and have been impressed with her writing, particularly her earlier books. But this one seems to have been phoned in, and I'm seriously wondering if the author didn't use a ghost writer.
The story lines have already been discussed by other reviewers, and I'd agree that the stories are boring and predictable. The main characters are remininscent of Nick and Nora Charles without the booze, but the former president seeems whiny and not at all presidential. He's passed off as a 44-year-old former president who served his two terms and is now living the life of leisure with his congresswoman wife. Given these numbers, he had to have started campaining for his job before the age of thirty-five, when he could have legally taken office. Hard to believe that someone this young was the most qualified candidate.
Now for the gaffs. What president, past or present, would call the Russians "Soviets" and wouldn't know that the federal penitentiary at Marion is in IL, not Ohio? There are numerous other mistakes that should have been caught in the vetting process, leading me to believe that this book never saw a competent editor.
Bottom line: A sorry book from such a well-respected author.
