I became super obsessed with Mary Higgins Clark mysterys in 1994 -1995(Grade 7 ) Although probably not as obsessed as I used to be, MHC's books are still a warm hug on a cold day. It's my mom's fault, we had previously read "I'll be seeing you "and as a result she went back to the bookstore and bought up whatever was there. I would have to say that no matter how many times I 've read "All Around the Town " it's never dimmed the 5 star rating for this book.. I absolutely loved the multiple viewpo...

I read this for Ms. Johnson when I definitely should not have been at 15 years old. I don't think Sydney liked it either.

Almost as bad as the other Higgins Clark I read. Characters were made of cardboard and female frailty seems to indicate their inner goodness. Too many "almosts" to make me roll my eyes (as in someone almost does something or sees something or gets something that would reveal the bad guy). All in all a weak and cheap book.

It was great! As always Mary Higgins Clark never disappoints me! A great mystery writer who holds your total attention without excess embellishments.The story again had an exciting twist - with good characters . It's refreshing to see the good guy win and to close the book with a smile.

Mary Higgins Clark weaves a complicated world around her characters, that is slowly unraveled as the novel progresses. I was completely taken in by this sometimes dark and always tense world, and this was a real page-turner for me. A family is torn apart when their youngest daughter, Laurie, is stolen from the front yard. Parents can't function, and an older sister blames herself. Fast forward to the future, and a family reunited - together but unable to process and put aside the past. New trage...

All Around the Town, Mary Higgins ClarkProfessor Alan Grant is found stabbed to death in his New Jersey home. When Laurie Kenyon, a twenty-one-year-old student, is accused of murdering her English professor, Allan Grant, she has no memory of the crime. But at the scene of the homicide, her fingerprints are everywhere -- on the door, on the curtain, and on the knife used to stab him to death. Shocked and bewildered, Laurie is arraigned on a murder charge.Kidnapped at the age of four and the victi...

I actually enjoyed it... Read it in 2 days.... It all came together in the end and It gripped me from the start...In all fairness its worth your time

Laurie Kenyon just at age 4, was kidnapped in her driveway. During the 2 years of her abduction she suffered physical and sexual abuse, that caused Laurie to develop multiple personalities. Now at 21 years old, she is charged with murdering her English professor, Allen Grant. She had no recollection of the event, but her fingerprints are planted all over the crime scene. Her sister, Sarah Kenyon, takes on the case has her attorney and hires psychologists to help bring back the memories of the ki...

2,5/5. First book by Mary Higgins Clark for me. I wasn't expecting much, but a friend of my wife had praise it vividly to me the last time I saw her and so I decided to give it a try.The story was alright until the end, which was maybe too cheesy for me, but the overall plot was okay. It was the writing, which I find very dry, and the characters, which were very generic, that had me turn the page without caring too much. I thought it lack a lot of psychology in the character development for a bo...

This was a reread for me. I almost always enjoy Mary Higgins Clark books.

Totally suspenseful! Another great one by Clark. You really can't go wrong with these novels. They are easy reads with twisting, exciting plots...especially this one.

Lately, this "multiple personalities" thing has been overused. Anyway, a passable reading for bus stations, waiting rooms or any time you don't feel like using your brain too much. However, although I have some more books of Mary Higgins Clark, I think I will donate them all to Salvation Army. Not so bad, lately I was looking for space in my library. :)

This story is about a young woman who was abducted at the age of four and horribly abused for two years. The reader is spared the details of this abuse while it's happening (which I appreciated!) and the story flashes forward to when she is 21 and a fresh trauma in her life causes effects from the abuse to surface in the form of the protagonist having multiple personalities. A murder occurs and we are left to discover "who done it." (One of her personalities, the abusers, or someone else?) We al...

Whew! I spent the whole day reading this because I just couldn't put it down. We first meet Laurie as a little girl when she is abducted. We know a little about her situation, but it's brief, then we move to present day when Laurie is 21 years old, following the death of her and sister Sarah's parents. At this point, we start to see that Laurie is troubled, and eventually we discover that she is suffering from multiple-personality disorder. She begins to see psychiatrists, although she's slow to...

A little girl is kidnapped at age four. Two years later, she is returned to her family. When tragedy strikes during her college years, those horrible two years come back to her in the form of the alter personalities that protected her during that time. She finds herself charged with murder, and her big sister fights to defend her in the hopeless case.This book is one of my favorites by Mary Higgins Clark. She keeps you on the edge of your seat and turning the pages until you're finished. As usua...

A really capturing book. I read it within two or three days. I couldn't set it down easily. A really nice thriller.

I could not give to this book more than 2 stars.I think that it was an easy to read book. I usually love to read thrillers to try to understand what's going on but with this book I understood the most important scoop about Laurie almost 100 pages before the end! I did not understand who the killer was ( because, honestly, it could have been anyone), but when I arrived at the end of the book I was not surprised at all.What let me finish the book was the phsycology of Laurie. Blonde girl with a lo...

I've read all of the MHC books that are out on paperback and I really enjoy them and they are a fast read. I did learn my lesson about making sure my husband was home when I read them b/c I got a little creeped out one night when I was home alone and the book I was reading had a character stalking her outside of her house. I just picked a few of my favorites for my bookshelf so it didn't get too crowded.

This one was one of my favorites of MHC. I remember loving it many moons ago and I loved the re-read

One of my friends accidentally left one of Mary Higgins Clark's books in my apartment. That is when I started reading Mary's novels. I started with "You Belong to Me". That was when I started falling in love with this lady. From then I started picking up her books every now and then. Regarding my experience with "ALL AROUND THE TOWN", I would just say it is flawless. It is written around a very strong, gripping I would say, story-line. The dots are all well connected. The story flows as easily