On the Street Where You Live - Mary Higgins Clark

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...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 identified as Martha Lawrence, a young Spring Lake woman who vanished several years ago. Within her hand is the finger bone of another woman, with a ring -- a Shapley family heirloom -- still on it. Determined to find the connection between the two murders, Emily becomes a threat to a seductive killer...who chooses her as the next victim.

Published: 2002-04-01 (Pocket Books)

ISBN: 9780671004538

Language: English

Format: Paperback, 387 pages

Goodreads' rating: -

Genres

Mystery Fiction Suspense Thriller

Reviews

Anissa rated it

Oh well I have mixed feelings about this book. It started as being A-M-A-Z-I-N-G and super exciting, with interesting characters, a creepy story and no idea of who was the assassin. But unfortunately the ending wasn't at the same level than the rest of the book. It felt like the writer just threw the end.. I didn't have time to panick and it was already over. Besides that the book was great!

Brit rated it

Very much enjoyed this mystery/suspense. This is one that keeps you trying to guess, but different twist and turns make more than one person suspects. The mirroring of murders from the 1800's was brilliant. I couldn't stop until I found out who was behind it all.

Johna rated it

Ugh. This book!The main character is dumber than a brick. She has absolutely has no common sense at all. I can't really picture a community where there is a serial killer on the loose, taking names left and right, and they calmly go on their lives without worrying glances over their shoulders.This book got me so frustrated. Ugh. Just thinking back on it makes me mad.

Valentin rated it

After reading "Daddy's Little Girl", by Mary Higgins Clark, I was excited to become engrossed in another of her novels. But, I have to say, "On the Street Where You Live", was very disappointing to me. I actually couldn't wait to finish it, just to finish it, not because I couldn't wait for the ending. This story covers eleven days. It starts on Tuesday, March 20, and the "big" day that keeps popping up in the book is Saturday, March 31. Kind of eerie, I finished this book today, Saturday, March 31!!Emily Graham, a defense attorney, decides to buy her ancestors' Victorian house in Spring Lake, New Jersey. This house is where her great, great, grandaunt, Madeline Shapley had lived, and the neighborhood where Madeline mysteriously disappeared in 1891. There is intrigue with the reincarnation aspect throughout much of the novel.I only gave 2 stars because there are too many side stories, too many characters, and it didn't wrap up neatly enough at the end. I am not giving up on Mary Higgins Clark. I am sure there are many other good mysteries she has out there. This one just left me irritated, and exhausted.

Tish rated it

On the Street Where You Live was the first novel I ever got to read from all the mind-twisting and suspense-filled masterpieces of Mary Higgins Clark. From then on, I became an absolute fan striving to grab every copy of her novel stockpiled in bookstores. :) Though others find it very futile to have numerous characters on the course of the storyline, I think it contributed a lot more patches of mind-boggling thinking on who in the end will be revealed as the real murderer. Everyone seems to have motives. Everyone has a secret. Everyone can be considered as a suspect. And in the end, as the story unfolds, youd be more than surprised to know the hidden truth.MHC really knows how to stimulate the minds of her readers. Its like youre a CSI Agent looking for answers behind the real clues and evidences of every excerpt.Its a thought-provoking and page-turner novel that will surely leave you gripping until the very last page.5/5 - @alphafelix / Alpha FelixOn the Street Where You LiveMary Higgins Clark