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Mary Higgins Clarke (Is that young Mary in the background? Or Carol?)

Do we really need to write about this? No!!! But it’s just so freaky, especially with that picture, that we will: USA Today reports here this breaking news, “The mother-daughter duo of Mary Higgins Clark and Carol Higgins Clark has three spots in the Top 100 on USA TODAY’s Best-Selling Books list.”

Now don’t get excited. They are not numbers one, two, and three. Mary is at #6 for her new release, The Shadow of Your Smile and at #10 for the paperback release of Just Take My Heart. Carol is at #80 for Wrecked.

Need we say more, Carol? Just look at your title. You can beat her, but you’ve got to get your titling down–something with hearts, smiles, me, you–no sturm und drang, please.

Valerie Merians is the co-founder and co-publisher of Melville House.