#83 On the Street Where You Live
Title: On the Street Where You Live
Author: Mary Higgins Clark
Genre: Mystery
Pages: 317 (HB)
Length of time to read: 1 day
Synopsis:
Following the acrimonious breakup of her marriage and the searing experience of being pursued by an obsessed stalker, criminal defense attorney Emily Graham accepts an offer to leave Albany and work in a major law firm in Manhattan.
Feeling a need for roots, she buys her ancestral home, a restored Victorian house in the historic New Jersey seaside resort town of Spring Lake. Her family had sold the house in 1892, after one of Emily's forebears, Madeline Shapley, then still a young girl, disappeared.
Now, more than a century later, as the house is being renovated and the backyard excavated for a pool, the skeleton of a young woman is found. She is identified as Martha Lawrence, who had disappeared from Spring Lake over four year ago. Within her skeletal hand is the finger bone of another woman with a ring still on it -- a Shapley family heirloom.
In seeking to find the link between her family's past and the recent murder, Emily becomes a threat to a devious and seductive killer, who has chosen her as the next victim.
Recommended By:
My husband picked the book up to listen to and I wanted to reread it so we could discuss it when he was done
Review:
I liked it. It’s been awhile since I read it, so I didn’t remember too much of it and it took me a little while to figure the mystery out. She is always good for a quick and easy read. Never too gross with the details…reminds me a little of Agatha Christie.
Author: Mary Higgins Clark
Genre: Mystery
Pages: 317 (HB)
Length of time to read: 1 day
Synopsis:
Following the acrimonious breakup of her marriage and the searing experience of being pursued by an obsessed stalker, criminal defense attorney Emily Graham accepts an offer to leave Albany and work in a major law firm in Manhattan.
Feeling a need for roots, she buys her ancestral home, a restored Victorian house in the historic New Jersey seaside resort town of Spring Lake. Her family had sold the house in 1892, after one of Emily's forebears, Madeline Shapley, then still a young girl, disappeared.
Now, more than a century later, as the house is being renovated and the backyard excavated for a pool, the skeleton of a young woman is found. She is identified as Martha Lawrence, who had disappeared from Spring Lake over four year ago. Within her skeletal hand is the finger bone of another woman with a ring still on it -- a Shapley family heirloom.
In seeking to find the link between her family's past and the recent murder, Emily becomes a threat to a devious and seductive killer, who has chosen her as the next victim.
Recommended By:
My husband picked the book up to listen to and I wanted to reread it so we could discuss it when he was done
Review:
I liked it. It’s been awhile since I read it, so I didn’t remember too much of it and it took me a little while to figure the mystery out. She is always good for a quick and easy read. Never too gross with the details…reminds me a little of Agatha Christie.