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Book Review of All Around the Town

All Around the Town
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Professor Alan Grant is found stabbed to death in his New Jersey home. All the evidence points to an obsessed student, 21-year-old Laurie Kenyon, who sent him passionate letters, followed him, even watched him through his study window--and awakens in her dorm room, covered with Grant's blood and clutching the knife that killed him. Attorney Sarah Kenyon, Laurie's sister, alone understands Laurie's daily nightmare and the trauma left by a childhood kidnapping too hideous to be recalled. Laurie's abductors, now a prominent televangelist and his wife, fear she will start to remember her life with them. And her past must be kept buried at all costs--even if it means carrying out the murderous threat made to a terrified girl years ago.