Editorial Reviews
Product Description: 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 next victim.
Amazon.com Review:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review
nothing spectacular, January 10, 2009
By
Linda (Missouri, USA)
This is the first Mary Higgins Clark novel I've ever read. I picked this one because I'm a genealogist and this book has a family history element to it. I found this book to be well written and interesting overall but the ending left me flat. It's not that I was able to guess who the murderer was before Higgins revealed it, I didn't and that is a good thing, but that her revelation of who the murderer is has no excitement to it at all. Basically it is a totally zingless, boring ending and it left a sour taste in my mouth for the entire book.
Items and Sellers, January 1, 2009
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Anne M. Woods (USA)
I was very happy with the Item. I ordered it on 11/22/08 plenty of time before Christmas. I received the Item on 12/26/08. I was very disappointed in the seller. If I have a choice between this seller and another, I might give this seller another chance, accidents happen. I would really have to think about it though.
Same book, new name, December 15, 2008
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Musiclvr (USA)
A long time ago I came to understand that Mary Higgins Clark writes the same couple of books over and over again, just with different character names and motives. And that's about it. It's like she has two or three templates that she works with, filling in the names and circumstances as she goes along. Like a Mad Lib. And this is one of those templates. What's the fun of reading a mystery if you know from the start who the killer is? Because it's always the same guy in this template! And the heroine is always the same beautiful, tastefully dressed (seriously, who wears pantsuits outside of the office at the age of 32??), super intelligent, but somehow dim woman who falls for the killer's charms and ends up having to be rescued at the last minute. I mean it, if you're a MHC reader, think back on her not-so-varied character structures. It's kind of disappointing.
Oh, and there's always lots and lots of secret-harboring red herrings thrown in for good measure, and at least one of them once had an obsession or affair with one of the victims/has a hankering for beautiful young women which will prove to be their downfall. Sigh.
However, I will say that I enjoyed the past-meets-present feel of this book.
Book good shape shipping high, July 21, 2008
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Bernadette CerviniThe 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
Audio hard to follow, April 17, 2008
By
Gale Lewis (Kansas)
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.
