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Book Review of No Place Like Home

No Place Like Home
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Ten-year old Liza Barton shoots her mother while trying to protect her from her violent husband - Liza's stepfather. While the death is ruled accidental, the tabloids still compare Liza to the child murderess Lizzie Borden. Liza is adopted and her name is changed to Ceila. Widowed after a brief marriage in which she had a son, Jack she remarries a young lawyer who on her birthday presents her with a gift - the house where she killed her mother. When the real-estate agent who sold the house to her husband is murdered, she becomes a suspect.