On the Street Where You Live

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Summary: Excellent
Review: I have read many of MHC's novels. This one I must say was sort of a let down. The story involved too many characters, making it hard to follow and easy to forget who all of them were. I didn't think that the ending was all that great, either. Sorry, but this one was just "alright".

Rating:
Summary: Excellent
Review: I love this book!! You'll be guessing the whole way through the book and on the edge of your seat. It's wonderful!

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Summary: Mary Higgins Clark Keeps You Guessing
Review: If you are a fan of the quick read where circumstances take the place of characterizations, you will certainly enjoy this tale of suspense by noted author Mary Higgins Clark. With her short chapter format, Clark tempts the reader to read just one more page that leads to one more chapter and before the reader knows it, he/she is so hooked that he/shee needs to figure out who the guilty party is before turning in for the night.
"On the Street Where You Live" is a beach reader's dream. Higgins Clark successively toys with the idea of a dual murder set in a lovely summer hamlet in New Jersey at the turn of the century---asking the question if somehow the soul of the murderer found its way into a modern day persona, how would modern sensibilities fueled by present day forensic techniques deal with the horrendous repercussions of another set of murders?
As in her other offerings, Higgins Clark keeps you guessing as to the identity of the murderer---and there are many would-bes from which to choose. As with many of her tales, that last defining act which leads us to discover the murderer's identity hinges on a systematic plan to do away with an attractive young professional woman and some last minute bad calls by the police and the gentlemen interested in the clueless target.
Similar in technique to her other novels, Higgins Clarks doesn't throw us any curve balls, just delivers what she has come to be known for---a good tale of suspense which keeps one guessing until the end. Just don't expect any of the characters to leap out on the page at you---Clark deals more in building a story around a media event current day issue rather than delivering a more subtle univeral message. Great quick airport read.

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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: Good, fun read
Review: Lawyer Emily Graham has just moved into her ancestral home in a picturesque seaside village when a series of murders begins. And not just any murders: They replicate to the last detail a series of murders that took place there one hundred years ago, and the anniversary of the last killing is this Saturday...who will be next?

Mary Higgins Clark has created a strong heroine in Emily and filled the story with a large cast of suspects that will keep you guessing until the last minute. My favorite chapters were those narrated by the unseen killer, who may be just demented or may be the reincarnation of the original killer.

The frequent comparisons between town life in the Victorian era and the present make me think this would make a lovely and suspenseful film. And the big question (has the original killer been reincarnated?) makes for fun, if creepy, speculation. Heartily recommended.

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Summary: Outstanding reading
Review: Mary Higgins Clark takes her readers for a trip into the minds of mysteries. On The Street Where You Live, presents parallel murders committed 100 years apart. The curious reader will try to desipher how the comparisons of these past murders with the present ones fit together. I loved her main character who finds living in her great-grand-aunts home in Spring Lake the entrance to this mystery. She reveals to us how her great grand aunts older sister sat on the same porch she now sits on and suddenly disappeared never to be heard from again. That is until they begin to dig up her backyard for a pool and low a behold are great grand aunt is discovered. Along with someone else. This book grabs you into this murderess mystery and makes sure you won't stop reading until the 1890 and 1990's come together. I think you will enjoy it, as I did. I plan to read other novels by her.

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Summary: On the Street Where You Live
Review: On the Street Where You Live
There is a serial killer in Spring Lakes. But he isn't any normal serial killer. He is a killer who is repeating the serial killing what he had done One hundred years ago. On the other words he has been reincarnated.
Emily Graham has just moved to Spring Lakes from New York after divorcing her husband. Her ancestors were from Spring Lakes. Her great grandaunt was killed in spring lakes. Her great-grandaunt was one of the victims of that serial killer one hundred years ago. Now he is back again. He is committing the same crimes he had done hundred years ago.
Right after Emily bought her ancestors house after she has moved to Spring Lakes workers had found out her great-grandaunts body who had disappeared hundred years ago and one other body which had disappeared 5 years ago at the same day when Emily's great-grandaunt disappeared hundred years ago.
The question on the book was is the killer was reincarnated or he was just following the killer who had committed 5 murders hundred years ago. Was he just repeating? Or was he reincarnated.

Rating:
Summary: So-So
Review: One thing about MHC's books, they keep you drawn in so it's difficult to put the book down. This was an OK book. To me, Clark is not in the same league as Connelly, Lehane or McGarrity. However, I enjoy her plots and I like her choice of setting. They make me want to visit the coast of New Jersey.
This particular book was about Emily, a defense lawyer who buys a victorian style house which is in the middle of a history of murder. Plus, she has a stalker still after her even though she thought he was put away in a mental institution.
This book can be confusing if you don't stay on top of the characters and who is doing what. That to me, is her downfall. Too many characters and too much going on at the same time.
All in all, this book is enjoyable, it's just not one of my favorites.

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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.

Rating:
Summary: A Thrilling Book
Review: This book had a lot of suspense and will keep the reader guessing until the end. Although the book did contain alot of characters, which could be confusing, I enjoyed the book very much. The only problem was the ending. I felt that the book ended rather abruptly and the author didn't wrap up all of the loose ends. I closed the book feeling that I needed more insight on the main characters feelings and actions at the end. I do, however, recommend this book to anyone that enjoys Mary Higgins Clark.