All Around the Town

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Summary: Disturbing? Yes.
Review: All Around the Town is just perverted. Not scary, or creepy, just perverted. Plus you don't care much about any of the characters like you do in other MHC books. I couldn't bring myself to care about the girl with different personalities, or her sister, or that doctor with the mustache, or the perverted evangelists (although I guess that would defeat the purpose, eh?) Anyway...I didn't like this one. But maybe you will.

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Summary: Classic Mary Higgins Clark from first page to last.
Review: An intense journey into the dark world of child abuse and Multiple Personality Disorder, this book will grip your attention and not let go until the last page is finished. The story centers around a young woman who was kidnapped at the age of four and subjected to two years of sexual and mental abuse. When the child is returned to her family, her parents are unable to accept the possibility that their daughter was molested and fail to get the child counselling. A tragic incident after she's grown up catapults her fragile mind into shattered fragments. Her descent into madness leaves her vulnerable to the unholy schemes of stalkers. Only because of the heroic efforts of her attorney sister does she triumph over her personal demons, both imaginary and real. A must read!

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Summary: Disturbing? Yes.
Review: Four-year-old Laurie Kenyon was a happy child, living a normal life with her loving parents and older sister. One day she sees a line of cars slowly driving by and, thinking it's a carnival, she goes outside to check and is taken. Two years later a cashier in a café happens to see her and a couple hours later she's left by the side of the road and returned to her family.

However her abductors have told her what will happen to her if she ever tells, and for a little girl who has spent the last two years trapped with cruel and perverse people who had been abusing her, that wasn't a warning to be taken lightly.

Fifteen years later Bic and Opal Hawkins, the couple that had abducted little Laurie, are televangelists, making a slick buck doing God's work. However, though they may have their evil eyes on heaven, they have them on Laurie too, who is now a senior in college.

Laurie is going through a tramatic period. Her parents have been killed in a bus crash. Her sister is overly protective. She's left her boyfriend and doesn't seem to know why. she's apparently obsessing over one of her professors and begins writing him erotic letters. Then the prof is murdered and Laure is suspect number one.

Did she do it? Can her lawyer sister help her? Two good questions and before they can be answered, it's discovered that Laurie is suffereing from MPD, multiple personality disorder. It seems there is more than one person in Lauire's head, a result of when she was living with the evil abuductors. When her abuse got so bad she couldn't stand it anymore, she'd hide in her head, go to a safe place. Is she still doing it? Did one of her personalities kill the prof without letting Laurie in on it?

Of course, the God fearing, child rapers are keeping an eye out to see if Laurie remembers and that's what really makes this book a thriller. However, I must admit, I had a hard time thinking about the child abuse. The book did, though, open my eyes to MPD. Over all, I'd have to say this was a story well worth reading.

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Summary: Mary Higgins Clark's best book!
Review: If you like other Mary Higgins Clark books, You'll love this one! Laurie Kenyon was kidnapped at the age of 4. Two years later, her kidnappers left her on the steps of a school building. When she was returned to her parents, she acted shy and afraid of everything, unlike what she used to be. What they didn't know is that she developed Multiple Personality Disorder(MPD). After the death of her parents, Laurie, now a college student, falls in love with Proffesor Allan Grant (or,at least, one of her personalities does). When Allan Grant is murdered, Laurie becomes the main suspect. Lauries sister, Sarah, switches sides of the courtroom and becomes Laurie's defendant attorney. Sarah convinces Laurie to see Justin Donelley, a phyciatrist specializing in MPD patients, to help her. As Laurie unveils all of her personalities and discovers what happens the night Allan Grant was stabbed to death, her kidnappers are closing in on her. And this time they mean murder.... This is my favorite Mary H. Clark book. If you love mystery and suspense, you'll love "All Around The Town".

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Summary: the best book ever!!!!!!
Review: Laurie Kenyon was kidnapped at the age of four, and was returned to her family two years later. Now, her parents have died, and she's suspected of killing her English professor. This book has it all - short chapters, excellent plotting, psychology and even an Australian character in this American book. Go on - read it! (A+)

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Summary: love this book
Review: Like I said I love this book this is one of the best books I have read in a while the first time I read this book was for Psycology class and I thaught it was going to be another boring book but when i read the first few pages I was hooked. it might be a long book but it is worth the read. so read the book and you will not put it down. oh yea this reivew is comming from a guy that does not like to read!!

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Summary: IT TOTALLY ROCKS!
Review: The story is very interesting, there is a lot of suspense, and it's never boring. I very enjoyed it!
The story is about a young girl called Laurie who was kidnapped. When she is a adult, she's free but has some problems, she's not the same, she has others personality. One day she's accusing of a murder, So she must go to a psy, to discover what she has. His sister try to find the kidnapper to know what they have made to his sister. The kidnapper try to make Laurie crazy, and then kidnapped her again, hte man try to make her suicide, bnut her sister safe her.
If your a Mary higgins Clark fan, You'll love it. You must read this book!

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Summary: I was suprised!
Review: This book is amazing. I had never been intersested in Mary Higgins Clark, but my boyfriend bought this for me because he got her confused with Danielle Steel. I was kinda disappointed, but when I read the descripition, it sounded pretty good. For the first page I was hooked and could not put it down! I was pleasantly suprised by how interesting the story was. I love this book and would recomend it to anyone!

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Summary: first book i've read written by her
Review: This book is really great! After reading this book, I start to get more interested in multiple personalities. The story plot is well-written. I loved the part when Laurie is having her therapy, where her different personalities start to appear! This book is full of surprises and Mary Higgins Clark can describe it so well that it's as if you are in the story itself! I bet you would want to read her other books as well after reading this one, just like I do! THREE CHEERS TO THE QUEEN OF SUSPENSE!