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Summary: Mary Higgins Clark Does it Again...
Review: Talented criminal defense attorney, Emily Graham, is starting over. She's had to deal with a messy divorce from her greedy and adulterous husband and has been terrorized by a stalker for over a year. But now, all that is finally behind her and she's leaving Albany, New York for a great job with a presitigious law firm in Manhanttan and has bought her ancestral home in the beautiful seaside community of Spring Lake. On the day she moves in, a contractor, excavating her new backyard for a pool, finds the skeleton of Martha Lawrence, a young woman who went missing over four years ago. In her hand is a finger, complete with sapphire ring, of Emily's great great grandaunt, Madeline Shapley, who disappeared without a trace, from Spring Lake over 100 years ago. Now as Emily begins to investigate this double crime, that's landed literally in her backyard, she finds out that two other young women also disappeared in the early 1890s. She is even more shocked to discover that over the last five years the 1890's crimes seem to be repeating themselves as two young women have disappeared again, without a trace and the anniversary of the third is less than a week away. Is it a coincidence or is there a serial killer loose in Spring Lake, with a link to the past.....? Mary Higgins Clark has written a fast paced, intricately plotted page turner that's about to keep you up reading, all night. Her crisp, suspenseful writing is full of clever twists, turns and vivid, riveting scenes that will keep you off balance and guessing to the end. The only weakness to this book is its over-abundance of characters that become distracting and take away from the compelling story line and you'll need a score card, at times, to keep them all straight. Perfect for the beach or a long plane ride, On the Street Where You Live is a very satisfying read with a surprise ending that will knock your socks off. Mary Higgins Clark is one of the best in the mystery/suspense business and you really can't go wrong with this book.
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Summary: I LOVED EVERY PAGE OF IT!
Review: Mary Higgins Clark has written another winning suspense novel. I always look forward every year to mid-April because there is always a new thriller from the Queen of Suspense. "On The Street Where You Live" was one of her best ones yet. The plot: Emily Graham has moved to New Jersey from New York because of her new job. She decides to move into her great-great grandmother, Madeline's, large house. There Emily hears the story that her great-great grandmother disappeared one-hundred and ten years ago and was never found. After reading and researching many articles about Madeline's mysterious disappearance, Emily discovers that two other women were kidnapped and never found during that period. Now back in the present. Emily is having a pool dug at the new house and while the workers are digging, they find two bodies. One is her great-great-grandmother and the other is a girl who recently disappeared in 2001, on the same day of Madeline's abduction. There is a serial killer killing new women on the same day of the three other's disapperance one hundred and ten years ago. Could this be the same killer? Was he/she reincarnated? Who is killing women on the anniversary of the other women? Who could know where the ancient women were buried? Mary Higgins Clark writes an amazing and complex mystery novel that will take readers on a roller coaster ride of suspense!
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Summary: There she goes again.....
Review: I was so excited to find that Mary Higgins Clark had written another novel. I bought the book the day it came out and couldn't put it down. Like all her other novels, the ending is full of suprises. She keeps you guessing since this novel definitly has many people you can count as suspects. Clark's books always use well thought out plots. She researches all the material for her book which adds to the reality of what's happening to her characters. I'm so amazed at how well she writes. I've read all her books and can't wait for more to come. This is definitly a book you should read.
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Summary: Excellent Read!
Review: I breezed through this latest installment of mystery stories by Mary Higgins Clark. Through numerous twists and turns, the reader is kept guessing about the identity of both the stalker and the murderer. Read this on a relaxing summer day down at the shore and soak up this historical thriller.
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Summary: Great Suspense!
Review: She has done it again! Mary Higgins Clark always keeps me on the edge of my seat. I find myself staying up until wee hours of the morning pacing because I just can't read fast enough. This is a great book! If you are interested in suspense and have not read one of her novels, I strongly recommend starting with this book!
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Summary: On the Street Where You Live
Review: Having read all of Mary Higgins Clark's books, this one did not let me down. As usual, she has many characters and sub-plots going. You are constantly trying to figure out how she is going to pull everything together - which she does magnificiently in the end!
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Summary: A GRIPPING THRILLER
Review: Defense attorney Emily Graham has decided to make a new start. After a certain trial sets an accused killer free, Emily becomes the target of a deadly stalker, the son of one of the victims, and although he protests his innocence, he is put away.Trying to put the terrifying events behind her, Emily leaves her job in Albany for a new position with a major law firm in Manhattan. This change has Emily yearning to get back to her family roots, thus resulting in the purchase of an ancestor home, one that holds many secrets, in the New Jersey seaside resort town of Spring Lake, a town that hides a twisted killer. Emily soon finds out that her new beginning will be filled with nightmares, for as a construction crew digs up her yard to install a pool, a skeleton is found, that of a young girl who went missing fours years prior. Clutched in the hand of the young girl is a bone, a finger bone belonging to Emily's great-great aunt...an aunt who disappeared over a hundred years ago. Determined to find the link between her family, and the recent murder, Emily, will put herself in the destructive path of a crazed individual who has marked her as his next victim. 'On The Street Where You Live' is vintage Clark; utterly suspenseful, complex plot, fast pace, and a humdinger of a surprise ending. The only flaw, in this otherwise superb thriller is the large cast; points of the novel sees the introduction of many characters, for no apparant reason, overlooking this the reader will be treated to a gripping novel that deserves to be read in one sitting. Mary Higgins Clark has proven, once again, that she is the undisputed Queen of Suspense. Nick Gonnella
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Summary: Reincarnated Serial Killer
Review: This is classic MHC. She points the finger at every one. You don't know who it is until the end. The setting of Spring Lake is atmospheric. I would have given it 5 stars but it started off slowly. Great read for any MHC fan.
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Summary: One of the summer's better beach reads
Review: If you are an avid reader of Mary Higgins Clark, like I am, then "On the Street Where You Live" will hold few surprises. Once again, we have a single, career oriented female who is confronted with a series of puzzling events that, once she starts to tie them together, endanger her life. As usual, Clark delivers no less than 5 credible suspects, but the killer will not shock someone who is familiar with the author's style and can see through the red herrings. That said, the book is an excellent beach read and has a final twist at the end that will linger with the reader long after the last page is finished. Like "Before I Say Good-bye," Clark's latest deals with the paranormal, this time the possibility of reincarnation and how crimes in past lives can be repeated or avenged in the present. Fortunately, Clark doesn't let the speculation of whether or not reincarnation exists impede her plot. It simply deepens the mystery surrounding the murders of three young that took place in the 1890s and their connection to three murders of three young women that took place in the present day. Mary Higgins Clark has crafted a suspenseful and tightly plotted mystery that may not rank among her best, but is definitely one of the better beach reads of the summer.
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Summary: Gasps from the past
Review: Successful and wealthy lawyer Emily Graham buys back her ancestral home in a small seaside town not far out of New York. A hundred years before this, her great,great grandaunt, Madeleine Shapley disappeared while waiting on the porch for her fiance to call. Over the next few years, two more young girls disappeared, never to be seen again. Emily desides to continue the excavation of the pool which had been started by the previous owners but, when the digger has gone down only a bit further, two skeletons are uncovered, one of which proves to be Emilys' forbear, and the other, a local girl who has been missing for a short while.Emily is given some old diaries from which she tries to piece together the puzzle of the old murders and to see if there is a connection to the present ones.
It's an intriguing premise and one which works very well, making a very readable story, full of twists and turns, with many of the locals having secrets which come to light in her investigations.
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