Mary Higgins Clark
Paperback | Pages: 472 pages Rating: 3.87 | 13059 Users | 768 Reviews
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| Title | : | No Place Like Home |
| Author | : | Mary Higgins Clark |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 472 pages |
| Published | : | April 1st 2006 by Pocket Books (first published April 5th 2005) |
| Categories | : | Mystery. Fiction. Suspense. Thriller. Mystery Thriller. Crime. Adult |
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In a riveting thriller from the #1 bestselling Queen of Suspense, a young woman is ensnared into returning to the childhood home she wanted to leave behind forever -- and where her hidden past emerges with a new and deadly twist. 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 parents 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 the 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.
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| Original Title: | No Place Like Home |
| ISBN: | 0743497287 (ISBN13: 9780743497282) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | United States of America |
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Ratings: 3.87 From 13059 Users | 768 ReviewsPiece Containing Books No Place Like Home
Celia Nolan has a secret. When she was 10 years old her name was Liza Barton and she killed her mother. Now an adult under a different name with a manufactured background, she is newly married, and she has never told her husband her secret. The past she thought was dead rears up to torment her when her husband buys her a house for her birthday. It is where the killing took place, and its reputation as a cursed house remains in local memory along with the mistaken belief that Liza was a murderer.EXPERIMENTAL READ OF THE MONTH: APRIL 2016 Every month my friends and I go out of our comfort zones and embrace the world outside historical and contemporary romance. Thanks for accompanying me on this wild ride, sraxe!24 April 2016Dear Diary,Today, my good pal sraxe and I found our true calling. As much as we enjoyed being drop-dead gorgeous Goodreads reviewers with amazing hair, we thought it was time that we pursued our lifelong dream. No, it's not becoming Justin Trudeau's concubines,
Oh my goodness I was hooked from the first chapter. Clearly why she is a crime writer.
I feel as though the Mary Higgins Clark books are good for quick reads.For me all her books seem to be three point five star books. Theyre good if you want something quick to read and yet I never seem to enjoy them as much as I love other authors. Theyre sort of just there for when I want something quick to read.I think my main problem is that they all seem to be a lot of the same, in my opinion. Whether it is simply due to the selection of her books I have read or whether such is the case all
There is no one like Mary Higgins Clark There is a reason why Mary Higgins Clark have millions of devout readers . i was late to join the bandwagon, but now that i have finally joined i have started to see the magic she weaves on her audience. So far i have read two books from her works and what i have noticed is that, she brings forward all these characters that you know for sure are the culprits from the get go, but as soon as you reach the end,you realize that the author had been playing
Great book......when you just want to read a good book and not think about anything....this is a good one for that. It hooks you from the beginning and you have to read it...you have no choice :)
Ten-year-old Liza Barton accidentally shot and killed her mother while trying to protect her from Lizas violent stepfather. The stepfather was also shot, but lived, and he claimed that Liza killed her mother on purpose. Liza is found innocent of the crime, but the tabloids have labeled her Little Lizzie Borden because of the name similarity, and many people believe that Liza is really an evil little girl. Relatives of Liza adopt her, take her far away from her hometown, and change her name to
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