Book Review: On the Street Where You Live

Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner

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Mary Higgins Clark
Class/Genre:   Mystery   Psychological Suspense
Simon & Schuster, Apr 2001, $26.00, 317 pp.

Resort town Shady Lake, New Jersey is a bucolic place to live as it is near enough to the big city to commute to work. Normally a quite safe place, in the next ten days the town will be under siege from a serial killer who reveals the remains of two women he killed in the last few years. The murderer prepares to kill the third female in order to complete a cycle started over a century ago.

The assailant targets newcomer Emily Graham, a defense attorney and descendent of one of the victims from the incident of one hundred and ten years ago. The horror actually begins when men digging a hole for a swimming pool uncover interred bones of a dead person from a few years ago and those of someone who died over a century ago. The killer informs the world through Emily where a similar pairing of the remains of two victims can be found. Emily believes that if she can find the link she will be able to identify the perpetrator, not yet realizing that she is the next victim.

Mary Higgins Clark shows why she is so popular from the start as she hints at the climactic ending in the first chapter yet keeps her audience needing to know what happened. There are suspects galore including several people guilty of other crimes yet the real killer is difficult to identify even with clues throughout the plot. ON THE STREET YOU LIVE is taking a deserved Ms. Clark back to the New York Times bestseller list.

Harriet Klausner

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