All Around the Town [Mass Market Paperback]

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

All Around the Town [Mass Market Paperback]

Product Details

Mass Market Paperback: 341 pages
Publisher: Pocket Star; First Edition edition (February 1, 1993)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0671793489
ISBN-13: 978-0671793487
Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)

By : Mary Higgins Clark
Price : $7.99

Customer Reviews

I am amazed that I was kept on the preverbial 'edge of my seat' with this book! I read it in 6 hours and could not put it down! The suspense and twists were enough to make me wince and become anxious! Unbelievable suspense from what I now refer her to, THE Queen of Suspense, Mary Higgins Clark...
~'All Around the Town' is a simple childs rhyme, but not to little four year old Laurie Kenyon. She has been abducted and held mercilessly for two long and torturous years, suffering abuse and horrible mind games so severe that when she is released at age six, she doesn't even remember what has happened to her!
Now at age 21 she is found accused of murdering her English professor, Allan Grant, but she has no memory of the gruesome crime!
Apparently during those horrible years of being held prisoner, she has developed multiple personalities, one of which is a sex kitten calling herself "Leona". Leona has been writing crazed love letters to Allan Grant and has been secretly entering his home! She watches him sleep and wishes she could be with him...but the host personality, Laurie, is unaware of the many other 'people' living inside of her.
When things seem to go farther downhill for a suffering Laurie, her sister and best friend, a reknowned prosecutor,Sarah, takes up her defense and brings her to a psychiatrist Justin Donnelly, a specalist in MPD, Multiple Personality Disorder. Justin must be the one to help Laurie unlock her forbidden memories from those missing two years of captivity. But evil is lurking in the shadows...Laurie's abductor, now a famous televison evangelist, is still hopelessly obsessed with little Laurie and is determined to get to her one last time.
This story has twists upon twists that will leave you gasping for air and wanting more! The sad tale of a tortured woman trying to save herself by remembering who she is and what has happened all those years past. We get to see her world through her mind's eye and what we see is horrible and obscene. The preacher will never let her remember, but can Laurie beat him to the punch? A real rollarcoaster thrill-ride packed with suspense, enough to keep you on the edge of your seat until the wee hours of the night!
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All Around the Town is a book about a girl, Laurie Kenyon, who was kidnapped at the age of four. Her kidnappers abused her while she was in their custody and somehow managed to form multiple personalities. Unfortunately Laurie was unaware of them, but when she was returned to her family they supposedly disappeared. Now at the twenty-one she is accused of murdering her English professor, Allan Grant, although she has no recollection of the murder at all. One of her many personalities had fallen in love with him and constantly wrote him letters under the name Leona. Laurie's sister, Sarahm does not believe this could be happening and since she is a lawyer quickly goes to her sister's defense. I had a wonderful time reading this book, once I started it I could barely put in down. The suspense was just too thrilling. There was not a single part of this book that I did not enjoy. I just kept on wanting to know what was going to happen next. This is a great book and I recommend it to everyone, even those people who do not enjoy reading suspense novels will certainly enjoy this book.