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Summary: Couldn't put it down
Review: A great read, flows nicely and keeps interest throughout. The plot is great and characters well developed. A nice twist near the end.
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Summary: Suspenseful
Review: Once again Mary Higgins Clark wrote another great book .The story is very interesting, never boring. It's very hard to find the murderer. It's one of her best book.
I strongly recommend buying this book. If you like suspense read it.
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Summary: Where's the Link With The Murders Past and Present?
Review: This book was interesting and it kept you in suspense all the way through it.Following the acrimonious breakup of her marriage and the searing experience of being pursued by a stalker, criminal defense attorney Emily Graham accepts an offer to work elsewhere in a major Manhattan law firm. Feeling her need for roots, she buys her family's ancestral home, a restored Victorian house in the historic New Jersey seaside resort town of Spring Lake. Her family had sold this house is 1892, after one of Emily's forebears, Madeline Shapely, then still a young girl vanished. Now, more than a century later, as as the house is being renovated and the back yard excavated for a pool, the skeleton of a young woman is found. From there is a mystery that continues to unwind, and gets scarier with each page turn.
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Summary: On The Street Where You Live by Mary Higgins Clark
Review: On The Street Where You Live by Mary Higgins Clark is about a girl named Emily Graham who was just getting over a stalker in Albany, New York. She was a criminal defense attorney and moved into her great-great-grandaunts old victorian home. Her grandaunt, Madeline Shapely, disappeared in 1891 and many murders and disappearences have occured in Spring Lake, New Jersey since then as a cycle. Four years ago, a woman named Martha Lawrence deissapeared and was never founnd. When Emily went to renovate her yard for a pool, the workers found skeletal remains of Martha. With that, they found the finger bone with a ring that belonged to Madeline Shapely. Martha, Madeline and all the others that had been disappearing are all part of a reincarnation cycle and Emily knew she was next. She began to become stalked again and she called a dectective to help her out. They investigated the skeleton with the finger bone of Madeline. The detective had a theory. He said that this killer had been reincarnated every since 1891 when Madeline Shapely disappeared and all the disappearences since then and up to now. The Stalker Of Emily Graham slipped pictures under her door. She was supposedly next to complete the cycle of the killer,
I really enjoyed this novel because it was suspenseful and interesting. It always had my attention and i never wanted to put it down until I knew what happened.
I would recommend this book to people that are at a mature reading level and if you like suspence and if you like to figure things out as you read.
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Summary: Past and Present Murderers
Review: Once again Mary Higgins Clark wrote another great book called On The Street Where You Live. As was the usual with her books, I had to first get acquainted with all of the characters to be able to identify each one when she talked about them. This book was also great because there were many possible choices of who the killer could be. So here is a short summary of what the book was about.
Back in 1892 there was a man who murdered three women. The first one, Madeline Shapley, was murdered on September 7, 1891. Then on August 5, 1893 Letitia Gregg was murdered. Finally on March 31, 1896 the last victim, Ellen Swain, was murdered. Over 100 years later a guy found the murderer from the 1890's book he wrote in and decided to kill three women on the same days. The first victim, Martha Lawrence, was killed September 7, 1995 and was found whenever Emily Graham, a criminal defense attorney, bought a house and contractors were digging up the ground to put in a pool. The cops came and they found her body holding a finger in her hand. The detectives dug farther and found another body. They realized the finger was in Martha's hand so when she was found cops would realized she was connected with the murder from 1891. Emily Graham was frightened by this discovery, but continued to live her life. A few days after the discovery she got a post card in the mail that had an address on it. Then it said Letitia Gregg and Carla Harper, who was killed August 5, 1997. Emily took the postcard to the police and they quickly took a backhoe to the site the postcard said and began digging. They soon found the body of Carla Harper and she was holding a pair of old-fashioned earrings in her hand so they would know she was connected to the 1893 murder of Letitia Gregg. During the time of finding the bodies Emily also received pictures that someone had taken of her while she was standing in different places at her house. She soon became paranoid because when she lived in New York there was a guy that had stalked her and she was afraid that now in New Jersey there was a guy stalking her again. She decided to call her friend from New York to install security cameras around her house so if the stalker decided to deliver any more pictures of her she would be able to get his identity from the tape. Since March 31 was only three days away from when Carla Harper's body was found, police began to get nervous because they knew somebody was going to get killed. When March 31, 2000 approached and became evening the police thought maybe someone would not get killed until they decided to stop by Emily Graham's house. As they approached the house they saw someone getting ready to strangle Emily. They knew she would be dead until they got into the house, so they stood outside of the window and shot the murderer before he had a chance to kill Emily. The police then went into Emily's house and everyone was okay and no one got killed that day.
This book was kind of hard to follow at the beginning because it kept jumping back and forth between the 1890's and the present day. After the first chapter though I was able to understand the rest of the book. As I said before, this was a really great book. The time I spent reading it I enjoyed myself because it was so exciting not knowing whom the killer was. Anyone would enjoy reading this because it would make any sort of book lover like this book.
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Summary: The "queen of suspense" prevails once again!
Review: Mary Higgins Clark does it again in her novel On the Street Where You Live. Once again earning her title as 'America's Queen of Suspense.' As an avid Clark novel reader I dare to say this might be one of her best. It was certainly one of my favorites.
Emily Graham is a successful young criminal defense attorney trying to abandon her past of a nasty ex-husband and an obsessed stalker. Emily decides to take a new job in Albany. With her new wealth from stock with an, at the time, successful dot-com company she decided to return to her roots. Buying a big, Victorian style house, once owned by her great-grandma nestled in a small lake resort town in Spring Lake, New Jersey Graham is ready for a fresh start.
Emily's good fresh start abruptly comes to a halt when the contractors excavating for her new pool in her back yard find the body of a young woman, Martha Lawrence, who had been missing from Spring Lake for nearly four years. The twist is, the finger bone of Madeline Shapely, Emily's great-aunt who mysteriously dissapeard in spring lake nearly 105 years earlier was found placed in the hand of Martha Lawrence. After this shocking discovery Emily learns that three other women have also mysteriously disappeared from Spring Lake over the 110-year period. Three women with in five years, over a century ago and two women from present day. Connecting the disappearances together Emily realizes there must be a reincarnated cereal killer or a copycat cereal killer. If either of these predictions are true Emily and the Cops must find the cereal killer before the third victim of the present day cycle is murdered.
Emily sets out to solve this mystery and will stop at nothing even frightening notes and pictures from her old stalker, or a new stalker? She is also receiving little postcards from the killer and dealing with the new murders of people who are believed to have gotten in the way of the killer. These things only fuel Emily, encouraging her devote every free second to trying to find her great-aunts murderer and stop the sixth killing. While Emily is searching through old records and diaries the killer is plotting her as the next victim. The Spring Lake police have many suspects, many of whom Emily doesn't even realize and is becoming friendly with: Dr. Clayton Wilcox, a retired college president with a grave secret and his wife Rachel Wilcox who's scarf was the murder weapon. Bob and Natalie Frieze, Bob who endures frequent black outs, not remembering where he has been or what he did, his wife Natalie a gold digger who only married him for his now bankrupt restaurant. Will Stafford, Emily's real estate lawyer, Good looking, single and trust worthy, or is he?
As usual Clark picks a young successful but strong woman in distress as the hero type character and her audience appeals more to women. Even so, I found this book to be different and more interesting then the usual Clark novel. The character development was great. The usage of many different characters added so much to the novel. The flashbacks and diary exerts were great and well placed through out the book. The surprise ending was also well needed.
I strongly recommend buying this book. If you like suspense read it. If you haven't read any Mary Higgins Clark novels you'll be hooked on them after reading this one. If you have read any Clark novels you'll love them even more. Although appealing mostly to the female audience it was a great read. This is a curl-up-on-the-couch-on-a-rainy-day book. I loved it.
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Summary: Above Average.
Review: I love MHC, I love everything about her, this book was good, but I don't think it was her best. The plot moved kind of slowly, and I found myself constantly reading- not because I could not put the book down, but because I wanted to FINISH the book and move on to something else. I didn't suspect the murderer, and it had a great ending, but some of the things in the book were just too unbelieveable, and they didn't revolve around reincarnation. The fact that the main character was lucky enough to have a stalker and a murder after her benifited her in the end. It was good, not great, not her best.
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Summary: Mary Higgins Clark Disappoints Again!
Review: MHC is probably the most overrated author I have ever encountered. America's "Queen of Suspense?" Her stories me to sleep, and I consider myself a fairly big reader. And I'm female, too. Not one character in this story has any depth whatsoever--I've seen less one-dimensional characters in children's books! The main character is a total snob who had me hoping that she'd be offed. There was a whole plethora of characters difficult to keep track of, made even more difficult due to the fact that there was nothing distinct about any of them. I'm sick of all of these uncreative, formulaic wastes of paper spewed out every year by MHC. The only reason I read this book was because my flight was delayed four hours, and I refused to quit, seeing how I spent some of my own good money on it. Every single book of hers is the same, the only thing different is that the characters have different names: shallow, snobby damsel in distress, spurns the advances of a love interest, always wealthy, always lives in NYC, always of Irish background, always nearly killed, always pulled out of danger unrealistically, always falling for the love interest in the end. I say MHC either needs to come up with a different premise or switch careers. Her only effort that was, to me, creative, original, and even mildly suspenseful was "A Cry in the Night." That book at least had an interesting psychological twist in it. But for the rest of them, tough luck. Unless you're eleven years old and you are unable to distinguish a thoughtful, interesting novel from one written by a hackneyed, over-hyped author who was never that talented to begin with, ignore anything written by MHC. Instead, watch some paint dry. I guarentee you you'll be more entertained.
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Summary: I Couldn't Breathe...
Review: I couldn't breathe because the suspense was so strong while reading this book. Don't start this one unless you have time to finish it...you won't want to put it down until the end. My first Mary Higgins Clark book, but certainly not my last.
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Summary: A fast paced easy read
Review: I'm an avid Clark reader and while the outcome of this book was not a surprise to me, I was still caught up in the suspenseful action of the book. This book parallels two serial killers who lived one hundred years apart. Some of the townspeople begin to wonder if the original has been reincarnated. To learn the killer's next move, Clark's protagonist must uncover the mysteries of the past. And in typical Clark style, the closer she gets to learning the truth, the closer the killer gets to her.
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