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Summary: All around the town, Boys and Girls together now.
Review: Here is a little information for you about All around the town.It begins with four-year-old Laurie Kenyon being abducted from her home in Ridgewood, New Jersey. She is then kept for two years, a victim of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. When she was finally released, she had no memory of the past two years. Now years later, at age twenty-one, she is accused of murdering her college English professor, Allan Grant. She has no memory of the crime, but her fingerprints, on the door, the window, the knife used to stab him to death, say she's the killer. Scared, shocked, and confused, Laurie is arraigned on a murder charge. However, Laurie has no idea that because of the two years of abuse had triggered a multiple personality disorder in her. She is unaware of any of the personailties, especially the one named Leona, who had apparently been stalking, and sending crazed love letters to Allan Grant. Her older sister, Sarah Kenyon, takes up Laurie's defense, and brings in psychiatrist Justin Donnelly, who specializes in Multiple Personality Disorder. He is determined to unlock the forgotten years of Laurie's past. But her abductor, now a famous evangelist, is determined not to let his secret be revealed.
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Summary: A Rollarcoaster thrill-ride! Suspense until the end!
Review: I am amazed that I was kept on the preverbial 'edge of my seat' with this book! I read it in 6 hours and could not put it down! The suspense and twists were enough to make me wince and become anxious! Unbelievable suspense from what I now refer her to, THE Queen of Suspense, Mary Higgins Clark... ~'All Around the Town' is a simple childs rhyme, but not to little four year old Laurie Kenyon. She has been abducted and held mercilessly for two long and torturous years, suffering abuse and horrible mind games so severe that when she is released at age six, she doesn't even remember what has happened to her!
Now at age 21 she is found accused of murdering her English professor, Allan Grant, but she has no memory of the gruesome crime! Apparently during those horrible years of being held prisoner, she has developed multiple personalities, one of which is a sex kitten calling herself "Leona". Leona has been writing crazed love letters to Allan Grant and has been secretly entering his home! She watches him sleep and wishes she could be with him...but the host personality, Laurie, is unaware of the many other 'people' living inside of her. When things seem to go farther downhill for a suffering Laurie, her sister and best friend, a reknowned prosecutor,Sarah, takes up her defense and brings her to a psychiatrist Justin Donnelly, a specalist in MPD, Multiple Personality Disorder. Justin must be the one to help Laurie unlock her forbidden memories from those missing two years of captivity. But evil is lurking in the shadows...Laurie's abductor, now a famous televison evangelist, is still hopelessly obsessed with little Laurie and is determined to get to her one last time. This story has twists upon twists that will leave you gasping for air and wanting more! The sad tale of a tortured woman trying to save herself by remembering who she is and what has happened all those years past. We get to see her world through her mind's eye and what we see is horrible and obscene. The preacher will never let her remember, but can Laurie beat him to the punch? A real rollarcoaster thrill-ride packed with suspense, enough to keep you on the edge of your seat until the wee hours of the night! (...)
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Summary: You'll Never Put It Down
Review: All Around the Town is a great murder mystery! Laurie is wanted for murdering her college professor. She says she didn't do it, and she really believes she is telling the truth. Laurie has multiple personality disorder. She was kidnapped as a child and she was abused. To help herself live though the torture, she developed multiple personalties. Now that she is charged with murder, she knows she needs help. With her sister defending her at court, Laurie is able to stay at a hospital. The doctor she is seeing is very good with talking to the alter personalities. The more Dr. Donnelley talks the with and her other personalities, the more he believes that she really didn't do anything. While all this is happening, Sarah, Laurie's sister, is trying to sell the house. Little does she know the couple she sells it to is the couple that kidnapped Laurie when is was little. To find out how all this comes together read All Around the Town, by Mary Higgens Clark.
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Summary: All Around The Town!!
Review: I just finished reading "All Around The Town." It was the best book that I have ever read. It's the best because it has alot of description. It also has alot of mysterious things going on. It also keeps you on your toes all through the story.Five things that made this book the best are the settings, the decription of the characters. The way all the clues lead to the wrong person. I also liked the way the mystery was planed out. I really enjoyed one of the character that had multi-pesonalitys. Five things that I didn't like about the book are that it was very long, the bad guy pretended to be a pasture, how the some people died, and the 117 chapters. Some people who would enjoy this book would be someone who likes murder stories and long books.
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Summary: Her best book ever !!!
Review: This was the first and the besy Mary Higgins Clark book I've read. My friend recommended it to me and as soon as I started reading it I couldn't put it down. That was about a year ago and I've read about 8 or so more of her books since then. But none of them compare to All Around Town. I recommend this book, it will keep you in suspense!
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Summary: Fascinating Plot!
Review: Truly fascinating story line. I really enjoyed the plot to this book. A traumatized young girl goes through a tremendous ordeal and comes out of the incident with multiple personality disorder. I believe it took tremendous talent to be able to write such an intense and complicated character and make it comprehensive to the reader at the same time. I highly recommend this book. All Around the Town has a lot of unsuspected twists and turns so enjoy the ride.
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Summary: You Won't Want To Put This Book Down!
Review: When one of the main characters gets abducted by two strangers at a young age she becomes scared and shy. Many things happened while with these people, and for every bad event happened she created different personalities to help her tuck it away inside, never to remember those times. But when she starts to see psychiatrist she starts to remember things. The more she finds out the more scared she becomes that her abducters will find her and kill her like they said. As the story continues you the reader become more and more envolved in this book. You won't want to put it down. I really enjoyed this book. It got to the point where i took it everywhere I went just to be able to finish it. Mary Higgins Clark does a great job of making you the reader feel like you are in the book. It is almost like you are the main character. I would definitly recomend this book to a person who really enjoys suspensefull books, because once you finish a chapter you want to keep going to find out what happens to that person. The end is suprising, but almost expected. Except for the parts leading up to the climax, you really have to guess what will happen. The middle is a little slow moving, just because you want to see what will happen at the end. I enjoyed this book very much and I hope that the people that read it will enjoy it just a much as I did.
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Summary: Lots of suspense
Review: The first dozen or so pages of this book are so crucial to setting the scene for what happens later in the life of Laurie Kenyon, but they were difficult pages to get through. The reader has to watch in horror as a cute little girl suffers through terrible mental and physical abuse. When she eventually gets back to her family, those awful memories are lost and buried deep. When Laurie is at college, tragedy strikes again, and her past comes back to fiercely haunt her. There's a lot of tough issues and depth with this one besides a good murder mystery: abuse, mental anguish, lost memories, deception, grief and multiple-personality disorder. This is a well written book, and you find yourself really pulling for this poor girl. Very good cast of characters around the main character as well. Maybe not the book to read if you want something light-hearted, but definitely worth your time if you want a good thriller: there's suspense just dripping off almost every page. My only complaint is that the main bad guy, who is pretty evil and sick, is also "devoutly religious". But, at least MHC does seem to try to make a distinction between him and true believers who knew that there was something wrong about him.
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Summary: Suspenseful
Review: This book is set in NJ in the 1990's. Mary Higgins Clark's novel, All Around the Town, is about a woman with multiple personalities due to many painfully memorable events. When the main character was very young, she was abducted by stangers. She didn't want to remember here abduction so she created a different personallity. For every event she creates a diffent personality. You the reader are entwined in this thriller and suspenseful novel.
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Summary: Mary is too much!
Review: This book was excellent! This is one of the reasons why I can't stop reading Mary Higgins Clark. The characterization of the multiple personalities was extremely realistic. All of the characters were so vivid it felt like you really knew them. Laurie was the main character who was the one that was actually suffering from MPD and her change from personality to personality made the story all the more interesting. The kidnappers were depicted as such cunning and scheming psychopaths until you were begging for their demise. I would recommend this to anyone who wants to be suspended on the edge of their seats.
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