What's the Name of That Book??? discussion

I read this mystery book in the late 90s/early 2000s. The cover was similar in style to Mary Higgins Clark but I've looked through all her books and haven't found what I'm looking for.

It's a mystery involving multiple points of view. There is an abandoned baby. A woman's who's husband is in a car accident. There's some kind of rainstorm/snowstorm going on. One lady owns a baby shop.

ETA: I though the title had something baby like in it. I kept thinking it was "Hush little baby" but I know that's not right.

Bumping!

Carley--no idea on what this one is, but it sounds interesting. I'm trying to remember, I read a romance book that had a slight mystery to it with an abandoned baby. I don't remember if it was multiple pov though. And, well, I've read a few (thousand) books, so can't call which one this was to mind. But if you want to try mining my read list, feel free.

Thank you, Ann. Will do!

By "multiple points of view," I'm not sure if you mean first person narrative or just that the stories of several different people are told.

I'm going to suggest Sheer Abandon by Penny Vincenzi, even though the details about the baby shop and the storm don't quite fit. There is a car accident in that book, but it's not a husband who's in it.

Anyway, that's the only suggestion I've got.

It sounds like something from Deborah Smith I've read. While I haven't tracked down that book yet, I did find the following by her. Not really a mystery, but I lifted the following description from Amazon's website.

Sweet Hush, Deborah Smith

From Publishers Weekly

An apple orchard provides the atmospheric background for Smith's (A Place to Call Home) ninth novel, but a farfetched romance reduces it to hijinks. Hush McGillen introduces her family's apple farming history in the mountains of Georgia, where they raise a renowned hybrid apple, the Sweet Hush. Hush has been involved with the orchard since her father died when she was 12. She assumed responsibilities for the business as well as for her little brother, Logan, after her mother died when Hush was 16, the same year she fell pregnant and married race car driver and womanizer Davy Thackery. Davy isn't responsible, but he is a loving father to his son Davis, and proud of Hush as she builds her orchard into a multimillion dollar industry. After Davy's death in a car accident, the story jumps 23 years forward to when Davis brings home Edwina "Eddie" Jacobs, a fellow Harvard student and the daughter of the president of the United States. History has repeated itself; Eddie is pregnant, and the couple has fled to the orchard to elude Eddie's surveillance team of Secret Service agents. Hush battles with the irate First Lady over how to handle the situation. She also meets the president's nephew, Nick Jabokek, a weapons specialist, who alternates narration with Hush and falls for the apple magnate. In contrast to Hush's salty, humorous language ("I would rather eat dirt and shit roots first"), Nick's voice is that of a cliched tough guy: "I slept with the kind of women who moved fast and left damage behind." Together, they try to prevent the unwelcome barrage of negative publicity from revealing buried family secrets. Although the plot is implausible, Hush McGillen's voice is rich enough to keep the reader hooked.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Thank you both! Unfortunately this book is neither of them. I'm still looking =)

Hi Carley,

Are you sure it is not Mary Higgins Clark's "All Through the Night"? It has an abandoned baby storyline.

All Through the Night

Hi Donna! Thanks for your reply. No, that's not the right one.

I'm racking my brain trying to remember any other details.

Hush, Little Baby by Katharine Davies?
Hush Little Baby by Caroline B. Cooney?


Both have an abandoned baby.

Hi Juels! Thanks for your reply. Neither of those are the one I'm thinking although I have read the one by Caroline B. Cooney and enjoyed it.

The Memory Keeper's Daughterby Kim Edwards--- possibly???

Thanks for the reply, Brenda! No, that isn't it.

I'm 90% certain it was a mass-market paperbook. I've been combing Amazon.

Carley, are you still looking for this or did you find it?

Still looking!

Carley, can you tell us more about the couple - their jobs/skills/interests, how they met, what their relationship is like, is this their baby, where is the baby found abandoned, what caused the car accident, etc.? (Spoilers are fine - just give us a clear warning before revealing a spoiler.)

What's the location - country, region, big city/small town?

How about now?

Does anything on the Abandoned Babies list look familiar?

Maybe Hush Little Baby by Alex Gates?

Rainbowheart wrote: "Does anything on the Abandoned Babies list look familiar?"

I was gonna suggest that list! I just discovered it a day or two ago.

Lobstergirl wrote: "How about now?"

No response, moving to Abandoned.