Helpful Score: 8
This is Mary Higgins Clark at her very best. I started this book in the afternoon and didn't put it down until I had finished at 12:30 that night. Her characters are real and the story is tense, right up to the very end [although I had guessed the villian before the final pages], but isn't that the fun of a good mystery?....seeing if you have figured it out.
Helpful Score: 7
A GUY'S REVIEW:
My sister-in-law lent me a stack of her books. This book was in the pile, and for her sake I read it. It was torture. If this is one of MHC's best, then I'm done reading MHC. I told my wife that it reads like a bad Lifetime movie, so I wasn't surprised when she told me that alot of Lifetime movies are adaptations from MHC novels. Sorry girls, I had to give the guys fair warning. I'll just back away slowly now. ;)
My sister-in-law lent me a stack of her books. This book was in the pile, and for her sake I read it. It was torture. If this is one of MHC's best, then I'm done reading MHC. I told my wife that it reads like a bad Lifetime movie, so I wasn't surprised when she told me that alot of Lifetime movies are adaptations from MHC novels. Sorry girls, I had to give the guys fair warning. I'll just back away slowly now. ;)
Helpful Score: 7
Great suspenseful read. Now I know why they call her the queen of suspense. Loved it will definitely be reading more of her works. In fact I already bought a 7 book lot of her books and cant wait to tear into those.
Helpful Score: 6
I guess I'm weird, because I didn't find this book entertaining. All of MHC's stories sound alike. They're all farfetched and dull.
Helpful Score: 5
This was a really good book. I liked the mysterious past murders. MHC can often be predictable, but still she spins a good story and doesnt give away too much.
Helpful Score: 4
Story takes place in Spring Lake, Monmouth County, New Jersey, which is 10 miles from my home. References to restaurants and lankmarks made the story come alive - more so than usual. Mary Higgins Clark is ALWAYS a great read.
Helpful Score: 4
Great page turner. I didn't know who it was til the very end!
Helpful Score: 3
Emily Graham who is a defense attorney returns to the town her family vacationed in to escape a stalker only to begin being stalked all over again. Another murder mystery turns up as well. Keeps you on your toes until rhe very end.
Helpful Score: 3
I loved this book!!!! It was so good that I couldn't put it down. It was really hard to figure out who the killer was. You were lead to believe it was one person and then another. I have always loved her books and this one did not dissapoint me. I wish it had been longer.
Helpful Score: 3
A woman is haunted by two grisly murders separated by more than a century, yet somehow, inextricably linked.
Excellent reading. Holds interest from beginning to end.
Excellent reading. Holds interest from beginning to end.
Helpful Score: 3
I thought this book was mediocre at best, just your average whodunit. The story was interesting, but I was able to figure out whodunit. Therefore, I was a bit disappointed. I like to be shocked and surprised. This was my first Mary Higgins Clark read. I wasn't too impressed. If all of her books are as predictable as this one was, then I fail to understand why she is so popular!
Helpful Score: 2
Great book!!
Helpful Score: 2
I just had to give another guys perspective on this book, I loved it! A murder mystery with a large cast of potential killers. Just when you write a character off as the villain the author throws in a parting shot at the end of each chapter that makes you rethink your deductions as to who's behind the killings. I got caught up in both mysteries, the modern one and the one a hundred years earlier and was facinated at the end as to how they tied together. Very good read!
Helpful Score: 2
Awesome book! Combines the turn of the century 1890/1900 with the present! Very interesting.
Helpful Score: 1
One of her best and my favorites! Highly recommended.
Helpful Score: 1
As usual, Ms. Clark's work is riveting. With the usual mixture of class and creepiness, she holds us in the palm of her hand until the very end.
Helpful Score: 1
Full of suspense! Can't wait to see what happens next!
Helpful Score: 1
I just love Mary Higgins Clark... This is a nail bitter too the end.. I really enjoyed reading this.. Bring murder from 100 years ago to ones in present time... Great book
Helpful Score: 1
A nice multiple murder mystery with a re-incarnation twist.
Helpful Score: 1
Great for Mary Higgins Clark fans.
Helpful Score: 1
Clever and complex, well written
Helpful Score: 1
I loved this book. Mary Higgins Clark keeps you guessing until the end.
Helpful Score: 1
Mary Higgins Clark never fails, I love her books. This one kept me reading up through the night.
Helpful Score: 1
As is always the case with Mary Higgins Clark, this book is gripping. It was hard to put down and I thouroughly enjoyed it.
Helpful Score: 1
Good, fast & entertaining read by bestselling author Mary Higgins Clark.
Helpful Score: 1
This is a great suspense.
Helpful Score: 1
really interesting,w ith great twists!
Helpful Score: 1
I haven't read Mary Higgins Clark in a while. Not because I haven't enjoyed her books, just because I have been busy reading others. I picked up this book and could not put it down. It kept me interested throughout the book. I highly recommend this book.
Helpful Score: 1
I really enjoyed this book. So many characters interwoven to form a great mystery in Mary Higgins Clark classic style.
Helpful Score: 1
While it is not the genre I usually read, I enjoyed the story. Although it would have been more suspenseful if I hadn't figured out two of the three mysteries a lot sooner than the author's reveal. There were times that the red hearings made the book drag, but mainly because I had already figured out they were not the ones responsible. I found the nineteenth century murder and the investigation of it the most interesting part of the book.
Helpful Score: 1
mary higgins is an easy, fun read. great for vacation!
Helpful Score: 1
A can't put down read!
Helpful Score: 1
If you like Mary Higgins Clark, you will like this book. If you like the idea of re-incarnation, you will enjoy this book also!
Helpful Score: 1
Packed with suspense. Kind of like a 21st century who-dun-it. Old and new murders that are tied together to create a wonderful mystery!
Helpful Score: 1
Always good
Helpful Score: 1
Mary Higgins Clark always delivers a good read. This book won't let you down. After buying her ancestral home Emily is involved in an old mystery & disapperance of an ancestor. She becomes the target of a killer, but why?
love these mysterys
Great read!
Real page turner with numerous suspects. Thoroughly enjoyed reading.
Interesting, kept my attention.
Just a quick great read!
Excellent!
A great mystry.
I could not put this book down.
You cannot fail to find an imteresting book when you search under the author of Mary Higgins Clark!
I liked this book. I enjoy all of her books.
Classic Mary Higgins Clark mystery/thriller.
Good, light read for an evening or two at home. MHC is good at creating believable characters and creating "normal" suspense around their background story. Nothing wild and crazy, but cozy and comfortable - but still able to keep you reading on and on. Although not her best, surely still worthwhile for folks who enjoy easy reading and suspense!
A tight, suspenseful book with the fast pacing and believable characters that all fans of her work have come to expect.
Way to excellent......YOu are gonna love this one......
Incredible story.
If you like MHC, you will LOVE this book!
Excellent excellent story! Highly recommend!
very good
I have never before read anything from Mary Higgins Clark. How can this be, you ask, she's such a big name! It's true I tend not to read most of the big bestselling authors, not sure why, but I just don't. Here we have defense attorney Emily, who has just purchased her family's old ancestral home, and where a body is promptly discovered in the back yard. Nice quick pace, lots of plot twists, enjoyed the various POVs. I thought the bit about the media harping on reincarnation was highly unlikely, but I still enjoyed the book as a whole. Won't go out specially looking for more of hers but if there's one sitting around I'd read it.
Another romantic suspense by the queen of them -- in this one, a newly divorced attorney comes to New York to work and then decides to buy her old family home in neighboring New Jersey. And then the complications arise. Or as we say, then the fun begins.
Very good suspense story.
another good Mary Higgins clark book.
Good read
Story Line: Attorney goes through a nasty divorce and moves back to her ancestral home. Two sketletons are found during renovations leading to a mystery. Good Book.
Based in Spring Lake, NJ. Criminal defense attorney Emily Graham buys an old victorian house and there are skeletons discovered during renovation. Trying to find out what happened, Emily becomes the targeted next victim.
all her books are good!!
Really good book, keeps you on your toes.
Following a nasty divorce and the trauma of being stalked, Emily Graham leaves Albany to work in Manhattan.She buys her ancestral home in New Jersey.Her family sold the house in 1892,after one of Emily's forebears,Madeline Shapley, then a young girl disappears.
As the house is renovated and a pool dug, a skeleton is found and identified as Martha Lawrence, a young woman who vanished several years ago.Whithin her hand is the finger bone of another woman, with a ring, a Shapley family heirloom-still on it.
As the house is renovated and a pool dug, a skeleton is found and identified as Martha Lawrence, a young woman who vanished several years ago.Whithin her hand is the finger bone of another woman, with a ring, a Shapley family heirloom-still on it.
This was one of the best books of Clark's that I've read in a long time! It kept me going since I picked it up on Monday (it's Thursday). It was the first book I've ever read that kept me up till 1:15am finishing it! Excellent; worth the read!!!!
Good read, suspenseful mystery. Includes a Q&A with Mary Higgins Clark.
I really liked this book. I was vacationing one town over from where this book takes place while I was reading it. Which made it even more thrilling. Mary Higgins Clark is a great author.
Emily Graham is a criminal defense attorney who has already been through so much during her lifetime. Having already endured an exasperating ex-husband and the acrimonious breakup of her marriage - as well as the traumatic experience of being pursued by an obsessed stalker - Emily feels the need to get as far away from home as possible. So, deciding that she deserves a change of scenery, she eagerly accepts an offer to leave Albany and take up a position with a major law firm in Manhattan.
Feeling a strong desire to reestablish her roots, Emily buys her ancestral home - a restored Victorian mansion situated in the historic seaside resort town of Spring Lake, New Jersey. Her family had chosen to sell the house back in 1892, after the mysterious disappearance of nineteen-year-old Madeline Shapley - a distant relative of Emily Graham. Unfortunately, Madeline Shapley was never seen again.
More than a century later, as the house is being renovated and the backyard excavated to install a pool, the skeletal remains of a young woman are found. She is soon identified as Martha Lawrence, someone who went missing from Spring Lake over four years ago. However, Martha doesn't seem to have been buried alone - she has another woman's finger bone clutched within her skeletal hand. The lady's finger bone still has a ring on it - a ring that turns out to have been a Shapley family heirloom.
Now, as Emily seeks to discover the link between her family's past and the most recent murder, she actually finds herself haunted by both murders - despite the one hundred and ten years that separate them. Emily's subsequent investigation reveals that both crimes seem to be related to each other, yet this information isn't actually what frightens her the most. What actually begins to frighten Emily the most, is that she has somehow attracted the attention of a very devious and seductive killer - someone who ultimately sees her curiosity as a threat, and has chosen her as his next victim...
I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed reading this particular book. Actually, the story gave me the slightest impression that I was reading an Agatha Christie-style mystery - which means that I hadn't any clue at all who the perpetrator was, but absolutely no one was beyond suspicion. In my opinion, it was an intriguing and intricate plot that held my attention all the way through. I would definitely give this book an A!
I may have said this before, but I will say it again: to me, Mary Higgins Clark is a bit like Barbara Delinsky in terms of enjoyment of their books. The books that I have read by Ms. Clark have all been very entertaining and enjoyable, but sometimes she is a bit of a hit-or-miss author for me.
Feeling a strong desire to reestablish her roots, Emily buys her ancestral home - a restored Victorian mansion situated in the historic seaside resort town of Spring Lake, New Jersey. Her family had chosen to sell the house back in 1892, after the mysterious disappearance of nineteen-year-old Madeline Shapley - a distant relative of Emily Graham. Unfortunately, Madeline Shapley was never seen again.
More than a century later, as the house is being renovated and the backyard excavated to install a pool, the skeletal remains of a young woman are found. She is soon identified as Martha Lawrence, someone who went missing from Spring Lake over four years ago. However, Martha doesn't seem to have been buried alone - she has another woman's finger bone clutched within her skeletal hand. The lady's finger bone still has a ring on it - a ring that turns out to have been a Shapley family heirloom.
Now, as Emily seeks to discover the link between her family's past and the most recent murder, she actually finds herself haunted by both murders - despite the one hundred and ten years that separate them. Emily's subsequent investigation reveals that both crimes seem to be related to each other, yet this information isn't actually what frightens her the most. What actually begins to frighten Emily the most, is that she has somehow attracted the attention of a very devious and seductive killer - someone who ultimately sees her curiosity as a threat, and has chosen her as his next victim...
I must say that I thoroughly enjoyed reading this particular book. Actually, the story gave me the slightest impression that I was reading an Agatha Christie-style mystery - which means that I hadn't any clue at all who the perpetrator was, but absolutely no one was beyond suspicion. In my opinion, it was an intriguing and intricate plot that held my attention all the way through. I would definitely give this book an A!
I may have said this before, but I will say it again: to me, Mary Higgins Clark is a bit like Barbara Delinsky in terms of enjoyment of their books. The books that I have read by Ms. Clark have all been very entertaining and enjoyable, but sometimes she is a bit of a hit-or-miss author for me.
I love Mary Higgins Clark and she did not let me down with this book.
As murders from today tie into murders from 100+ years ago, the Author keeps you guessing till the very end. Great read! Mary Higgins Clark at her finest.
There's an interview with MH Clark at the end of this book. Apart from details about when/how she began to write, she also discusses some of her other books.
Really enjoyed this book. Typical Mary Higgins Clark suspense. If you're a Clark fan, you'll enjoy this one.
Another excellent book by Mary Higgins Clark
I really liked this one.
A real page turner....enjoy it like I did.
Another very good book by MHC! Have loved her
since I picked up one of her books when I was
a teenager many years ago!!! Grab a copy of this
one & enjoy a good read.
since I picked up one of her books when I was
a teenager many years ago!!! Grab a copy of this
one & enjoy a good read.
Very good, as always.
A typical Mary Higgins Clark book. Good suspense and fun trying to figure out the who did type book.
Great suspense. Special appeal to me as I honeymooned in Spring Lake, NJ. A beautiful community.
Mary Higgins Clark at her best
a women is haunted buy two grizzly deaths seperated bybmore than a century yet some how linked/
(From Inside Cover)
"A popular guest at many of the towns fine homes, he particularly enjoyed participating in the town's somber discussions about Martha's disappearance that still came up from time to time over the dinner table. I could tell you all about it, every little detail, he said to himself with a satisfied smile ss he strolled down the boardwalk, exchanging pleasantries with good friends he met along the way. But of course I won't. That's our little secret....mine and Martha's"
"A popular guest at many of the towns fine homes, he particularly enjoyed participating in the town's somber discussions about Martha's disappearance that still came up from time to time over the dinner table. I could tell you all about it, every little detail, he said to himself with a satisfied smile ss he strolled down the boardwalk, exchanging pleasantries with good friends he met along the way. But of course I won't. That's our little secret....mine and Martha's"
GOOD MYSTERY MURDERS OVER A HUNDRED YEARS AGO ENTWINE WITH MURDERS OF TODAY.
From inside cover...
In the gripping new novel from America's Queen of Suspense, a young woman is haunted by two murders that are closely linked -- despite the one hundred and ten years that separate them.
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.
In the gripping new novel from America's Queen of Suspense, a young woman is haunted by two murders that are closely linked -- despite the one hundred and ten years that separate them.
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.
Following a nasty divorce and the trauma of being stalked, criminal defense attorney Emily Graham leaves Alb any to work in Manhattan. Craving roots, she buys her ancestral home, a Vicotriah 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 Lawreence, 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.
I haven't read the book, my mom gave me a bunch of books to get rid of. The back cover says:
Following a nasty divorce and the trauma of being stalked, criminal defense attorney Emily Graham leaves Albany to work in Manhatten. Craving roots, she buys her ancestral home, a Victorian house in the saside resort town of Spring Lake, New Jersey. her family sold the house in 1892, after on 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.
Now that I've typed the back cover, it sounds pretty fun.
Following a nasty divorce and the trauma of being stalked, criminal defense attorney Emily Graham leaves Albany to work in Manhatten. Craving roots, she buys her ancestral home, a Victorian house in the saside resort town of Spring Lake, New Jersey. her family sold the house in 1892, after on 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.
Now that I've typed the back cover, it sounds pretty fun.
Intrigue, Emily Graham leaves Albany to work in Manhattan, after a divorce. She is craving roots so 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, a young girl, disappears. Solving, this can be deadly.
After a horrible divorce and being stalked, Emily Grahm leaves Albany to work in Manhattan. She moves into a home her family sold in 1892. As the house is being renovated and a pool being dug, a skeleton is found and identified. In its hand is another bone of another woman wearing a family herloom. Determined to find the connection between the murders Emily becomes a threat to the killer, who chooses her as his next victim.
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.
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.
Following a nasty divorce and the trauma of being stalkd, Emily Graham leaves albany to work in Manhattan. Craving rots, she buys her ancestral home a Victorian house on the seaside. Her family sold the houses in 1892 then a young girl disapperaed. As the hosue is renovated, and a pool dug, a skeletion is found and identified as the women who disappeared years ago. Within her hand is a finger bone of another woman. Deteremined to find the connection to the 2 murders. Emily becomes a threat to a seductive killer who chooses HER as the next victim....can she survive???!
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.
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.
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 huse in the seaside resort town of Spring Lake, New Jersey, her family had sold the house in 1892 after one of Emily's forbears, Madeline Shapley then a young girl dissapeared. As the home is renovated and apool dug, a skeleton is found and identified as Martha Lawrence a young woman who had vanished several years ago. Winin her hand is the finger bone of another woman, with a ring, still on it. A Shapley family heirloom. Deturmined to find the connection between the two murders, Emily becomes places herself in line of the seductive killer who chooses her as his next victim.
