All Around the Town
Publisher: Tandem Library
Published: October 1999
Language: eng
Format: School & Library Binding
ISBN-13: 9780785700098
Subjects: Psychological; Fiction; Fiction - Psychological Suspense; Children: Young Adult (Gr. 7-9)
First sentence: Ten minutes before it happened, four-year old Laurie Kenyon was sitting cross-legged on the floor of the den rearranging the furniture in her dollhouse.
Description: ALL AROUND THE TOWN
When Laurie Kenyon, a twenty-one-year-old student, is accused of murdering her English professor, Allan Grant, she has no memory of the
crime. But at the scene of the homicide, her fingerprints are
everywhere—on the door, on the curtain, and on the knife used to stab
him to death. Shocked and bewildered, Laurie is arraigned on a
murder charge.
Kidnapped at the age of four and the victim of two subsequent years of abuse and incarceration, Laurie has developed multiple personalities.
The host personality, Laurie, is unaware of the others...especially
"Leona," who has written crazed love letters to Allan Grant and has
secretly entered his home.
Laurie's sister, attorney Sarah Kenyon, takes up her defense and brings
in psychiatrist Justin Donnelly to help Laurie unlock the unbearable
memories of her lost years. But Laurie's abductor, now a celebrated television evangelist, is still obsessed with her...and determined
to avoid exposure. With a terrifying twist at the climax, Mary Higgins Clark takes us on a
breathtaking journey into the minds of a tortured young woman
desperate to retrieve her memories, and the mesmerizing preacher whose unsavory past is only a prelude to his final, gruesome plan for her....
Notes: "MARY HIGGINS CLARK PUSHES BUTTONS WE NEVER
DREAMED WE HAD....THIS IS SUSPENSEFUL STUFF, HANDLED
WITH ABSOLUTE AUTHORITY."
—The New York Times

"MARY HIGGINS CLARK HAS BECOME THE GRANDE DAME
OF AMERICAN THRILLER WRITING....A SLAMBAM
FINISH....VERY ENTERTAINING."
—Los Angeles Times Book Review