The #1 NY Situations bestselling “Queen of Suspense” Mary Higgins Clark crafts an exciting mystery when a news reporter builds up a pastime in her birth parents just as she actually is assigned to hide the high-profile trial of a female accused of murdering her wealthy husband.

Television journalist Delaney Wright is on the brink of stardom when she starts covering a sensational murder trial. She ought to be thrilled using the tale of her profession, but her developing desire to locate her birth mother about As Time Goes By consumes her thoughts. When Delaney’s close friends Alvirah Meehan and her spouse Willy offer to check out the secret surrounding her delivery, they uncover a surprising secret they do not wish to reveal.

On trial for murder is Betsy Offer, widow of a wealthy doctor who has suffered from Alzheimer’s for eight years. When her once-upon-a-time superstar lawyer urges her to accept a plea discount, Betsy refuses: she’ll go to trial to confirm her innocence.

Betsy’s stepson, Alan Offer, bides his time nervously as the trial begins. His significant inheritance hangs in the balance-his only means of making good on payments he owes his ex-wife, his children, and increasingly upset creditors.

As the trial unfolds as well as the damning proof against Betsy piles up, Delaney is convinced that Betsy isn’t guilty and frantically tries to prove her innocence. A genuine classic from Mary Higgins Clark, As Time Goes By is an exciting go through by “the mistress of high pressure” (The New Yorker).