All Around The Town
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4.5 • 182 Ratings
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- $8.99
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- $8.99
Publisher Description
Mary Higgins Clark, the Queen of Suspense, crafts a terrifying story of murder and obsession with “a slambam finish” (Los Angeles Times Book Review).
When Laurie Kenyon, a twenty-one-year-old student, is accused of murdering her English professor, she has no memory of the crime. Her fingerprints, however, are everywhere. When she asks her sister, attorney Sarah, to mount her defense, Sarah in turn brings in psychiatrist Justin Donnelly.
Kidnapped at the age of four and victimized for two years, Laurie has developed astounding coping skills. Only when the unbearable memories of those lost years are released can the truth of the crime come out—and only then can the final sadistic plan of her abductor, whose obsession is stronger than ever, be revealed.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Effectively exploiting her canny knack for placing women and children in deadly peril, Clark has pulled out all the stops in her newest effort (after Loves Music, Loves to Dance ). As a child, Laurie Kenyon was kidnapped and abused by a creepy pair named Bic and Opal, and she developed complex multiple personalities as a result. Now she is a college senior and a prime suspect in the murder of an attractive male professor. Might one of her personalities have been responsible? If so, can her protective sister Sarah, now an ace lawyer? confusing as is--if she's prosecutor, she wouldn't be defending her sister , defend her successfully? And will Bic and Opal, now successful televangelists, manage to silence her if she seems likely to identify them as her childhood tormentors? The plotting is swift and slickly managed, with a genuinely surprising twist toward the end. Clark wastes no time on extraneous details of character and atmosphere, but the very skills that make her a popular fast read mean that readers who look for nuance, flavor and shading even in their suspense thrillers will find their cravings unsatisfied. Still, of its efficient, machine-made type, this is a suspenseful page-turner. 500,000 first printing; Literary Guild main selection; author tour.
Customer Reviews
A "Can't put it down!" kind of book.
The story hooks you on the first page. Make sure that you have the rest of the day to read because you won't be able to put the book down. You immediately find yourself enmeshed in the lives of the two Kenyon sisters. Mary Higgins Clark has one it again with a book that is fast paced and provocative. It leaves you wanting more.
All around the town
This is fun reading! not a mystery but rather a tale of a kidnapping and the trauma that follows!
I couldn't sleep one night after reading the middle part of the tale!
Wow!
I’m happy to give this book five stars! What a great book. It was filled with love, drama, suspense, intrigue, and evil. I couldn’t put it down. So if you don’t have a few hours to devote to this book, you might want to wait until you have a few hours free because you won’t want to stop once you start reading it...Mary Higgins Clark does it again!