Best-selling US author Mary Higgins Clark dies at 92

Bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark has died aged 92, BBC News reports, citing her publisher.

Known by her fans as the "Queen of Suspense", Ms Clark sold more than 100 million books in the US alone.

In a career spanning decades, she wrote best sellers such as A Stranger is Watching and The Cradle will Fall, both of which were adapted into films.

Her publishing company Simon & Schuster said she died peacefully "surrounded by family and friends."