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Overview
Mary Higgins Clark, the Queen of Suspense, crafts a terrifying story of murder and obsession with "a slambam finish" (Los Angeles Times Book Review).
ALL AROUND THE TOWN
When Laurie Kenyon, a twenty-one-year-old student, is accused of murdering her English professor, she has no memory of the crime. Her fingerprints, however, are everywhere. When she asks her sister, attorney Sarah, to mount her defense, Sarah in turn brings in psychiatrist Justin Donnelly. Kidnapped at the age of four and victimized for two years, Laurie has developed astounding coping skills. Only when the unbearable memories of those lost years are released can the truth of the crime come out — and only then can the final sadistic plan of her abductor, whose obsession is stronger than ever, be revealed.
The spellbinding New York Times bestseller from today's reigning queen of suspense. With a terrifying twist at the climax, the author of Loves Music, Loves to Dance takes readers on an emotionally riveting journey into the mind of a tortured women--accused of murder--who is at the mercy of a psychopathic personality. "For sheer storytelling power--and breathtaking pace--Clark is without peer."--People.
Synopsis
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 homicid, her fingerprints are everywhere -- on the door, on the curtain, and on the knife used to stab him to death.
Publishers Weekly
Clark pulls out all the stops in this efficiently suspenseful page-turner, a Literary Guild main selection and a 15-week PW bestseller in cloth, telling of a college senior accused of murder and the televangelist couple who abused her as a child. (Feb.)