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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's adoptive paretns change her name to Celia and try to erase all traces of her past. Widowed after a brief marriage in which she had a son, Jack, she remarries a young lawyer. Celia is happy until, on her birthday, he presents her with a gift-the house where she killed her mother. On moving in, they find the words LITTLE LIZZIE'S PLACE-BEWARE painted in red letters on teh lawn. When the real estate agent who sold the house to her husband is murdered, she becomes a suspect. As she struggles to prove her innocence, Celia and her little son are being stalked by the killer.
"Mary Higgins Clark [possesses an] awesome gift for storytelling... A cunning variation on the haunted-house theme." --The New York Times
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's adoptive paretns change her name to Celia and try to erase all traces of her past. Widowed after a brief marriage in which she had a son, Jack, she remarries a young lawyer. Celia is happy until, on her birthday, he presents her with a gift-the house where she killed her mother. On moving in, they find the words LITTLE LIZZIE'S PLACE-BEWARE painted in red letters on teh lawn. When the real estate agent who sold the house to her husband is murdered, she becomes a suspect. As she struggles to prove her innocence, Celia and her little son are being stalked by the killer.
"Mary Higgins Clark [possesses an] awesome gift for storytelling... A cunning variation on the haunted-house theme." --The New York Times
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