Type of bind: Hardcover
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Label: Simon & Schuster
Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 320
Printing Date: April 17, 2001
Publishing house: Simon & Schuster
Release Date: April 17, 2001
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In the gripping new novel from the Queen of Suspense, a woman is haunted by two grisly murders separated by more than a century, yet somehow, inextricably linked...
ON THE STREET WHERE YOU LIVE
Following a nasty divorce and the trauma of being stalked, criminal defense attorney Emily Graham leaves Albany to work in Manhattan. Craving roots, she buys her ancestral home, a Victorian house in the seaside resort town of Spring Lake, New Jersey. Her family sold the house in 1892, after one of Emily's forebears, Madeline Shapley, then a young girl, disappeared.
As the house is renovated and a pool dug, a skeleton is found and identiWed as Martha Lawrence, a young Spring Lake woman who vanished several years ago. Within her hand is the Wnger bone of another woman, with a ring -- a Shapley family heirloom -- still on it. Determined to Wnd the connection between the two murders, Emily becomes a threat to a seductive killer...who chooses her as the subsequent victim.
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Emily Graham knows what it's like to have enemies. The pretty New York attorney--a millionaire due to a lucky stock market break--has been sued by her greedy ex-husband and stalked by a man who thinks she helped his mother's murderer escape punishment. But when she buys her great-great-grandmother's childhood home in the sleepy resort town of Spring Lake, Emily thinks her new life will be saner, even though five other young women, including Emily's ancestor Madeline Shapley, have disappeared from Spring Lake under creepy circumstances over the past century.
No sooner has Emily moved in than she starts receiving frightening, anonymous messages. Worse, when she breaks ground for a backyard pool, the backhoe brings up the body of Martha Lawrence, who vanished four years ago, and whose dead hand clutches the finger bone of Madeline Shapley, identified by her sapphire ring. Both women disappeared on September 7, 105 years apart. When the cops and Emily realize that a similar parallel exists between two other missing women and that the anniversary of yet another girl's disappearance is fast approaching, they quickly surmise that a sixth murder will be attempted in just a week. But by whom? Is today's serial killer a copycat of the Spring Lake murderer of the 1890s--or a reincarnation? Fueled by fear, anger, and scary little notes from the killer, Emily's actively researching the murders, but even she doesn't realize how many suspects there are: the retired college president, who's being blackmailed, and his perpetually angry wife; the town's bankrupt restaurateur with a weakness for pretty blondes; the middle-aged detective with his finger right on the pulse of the crimes. Even Emily's friend Eric, the software CEO who made her rich, and Nick, her new coworker, seem to show up at suspiciously convenient times.
Mary Higgins Clark's cast of characters may be overly large; in going for quantity she skimps on the characterization, and all of them, including Emily, are as wooden as Al Gore. But characterization isn't what's made this 24-book author a bestseller-list regular. The cleverly complex plot gallops along at a great clip, the little background details are au courant, and the identities of both murderers come as an enjoyable surprise. On the Street Where You Live just may be Clark's best in years. --Barrie Trinkle
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The book came in 100% perfect condition. I received it on time, but the shipping charge was move than the book cost and I could have ended up buying locally at a cheaper price
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I listened to the audio version of this book. I HATED the narrator. Her voice was so monotone and dull that I wasn't able to follow the story. I'm not even sure I know what happened in the book. I don't want to be overly critical of the book since I need to re-read it, but I don't advise getting the audio version.
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In this book, MHC used a different approach. We know what the killer is thinking, we know some of his moves, though we do not know why and who he is. It is also very interesting to link the murders 110 years apart, and playing with the possibility of evil reincarnated.
This makes it quite interesting for a read, as long as you don't question too much of the logics (like who writes diaries like that, who would return letters to the senders after many years just for her safekeeping, who would share out personal diaries, etc).
However, what really disappointed me most is the killer (of current year) is so obvious. I have been suspecting the person, nearly from the 1st moment the person was introduced in the book. I might be having too much of 'detective mind', or MHC's story is too predictable? Following a trait, after reading a few of her books, I can almost guess the killer even at the beginning of the book.
Not only for this one. I've also guessed the killer when reading 'No Place Like Home' few weeks ago. I think I have to give MHC books a pause, or I'll lose all the fun of thrillers.
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This is the very first Mary Higgins Clark novel I have read, but it won't be the last. This is a very worthy page turner, with many secrets, subplots, richly described characters, & numerous murder suspects. There is a realistic, & highly detailed quality to the authors writing that is very refreshing. Feisty defense attorney Emily Graham's new home in Spring Lake, New Jersey was once owned by her family one hundred years earlier. Soon after moving in a dead body of a girl who had gone missing four years earlier is found in her back yard while she was having a pool put in. The body is found with the finger of an even earlier murder victim complete with a Sapphire ring. As if that was not ominous enough, she also finds that she is being stalked again. Could it be some one from her past, or a new menace? The dead start to pile up, as Emily is hell bent on solving the link between the present murders with those committed a century earlier. Some of the locals even think a reincarnated serial killer is on the prowl?
The most fascinating aspect of this novel is that the author takes us DEEP into the mind of the killer, without revealing his/her identity. The overarching question that slowly grows to a crescendo is who is this obsessed psychopath? Is it Will Stafford, the real estate agent, Gary White, her greedy ex-husband, Eric bailey, the timid but shrewd owner of a dot-com company whose stock helped Emily amass a fortune? could it be Ned Koehler, a man convicted of stalking Emily when she lived in Albany, or Bob Frieze, the cranky restaurant owner prone to unexplainable blackouts when he can't remember anything? Perhaps, it is Nick Todd, the defense attorney fed up with getting guilty clients off? Maybe, it is a woman? Could it be the elderly & supremely bitter Rachel lashing out at young girls for her husbands indescretions decades earlier, or a jealous secretary of an eccentric College professor? I won't tell you the shocking ending, read it for yourself. You won't be disappointed.
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This book is a great read for the beach as long as you have a pad and pencil with you to keep track of the characters. Other than that small problem it was a wonderful story and it will hold few surprises if you are a fan of Ms. Clark. Again, there is a single, career oriented female who must take on a series of baffling events. Her life is threatened and there are plenty of suspects. The characters were poorly developed and there were many loose ends. Overall, it wasn't a terrible read, but I didn't think it was up to Ms.Clarks writing abilities.
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