No Place Like Home, Mary Higgins Clark
No Place Like Home, Mary Higgins Clark
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No Place Like Home

Author: Mary Higgins Clark

Narrator: Jan Maxwell

Abridged: 4 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/01/2008


Synopsis

In a riveting and unputdownable thriller from the Queen of Suspense, a young woman is ensnared into returning to a place she had wanted to leave behind forever—her childhood home.

At the age of ten, Liza Barton shot her mother, trying desperately to protect her from her estranged stepfather, Ted Cartwright. Despite his claim that the shooting was a deliberate act, the Juvenile Court ruled the death an accident. Many people, however, agreed with Cartwright, and the tabloids compared the child to the infamous murderess Lizzie Borden, pointing even to the similarity of their names.

To erase her past, her adoptive parents change her name to Celia. At age twenty-eight, a successful interior designer in Manhattan, she marries a childless sixty-year-old widower, Laurence Foster, and they have a son. Before their marriage, she reveals to him her true identity. Two years later, on his deathbed, he makes her swear never to tell anyone so that their son, Jack, will not carry the stigma of her past.

Two years later, Celia is happily remarried. Her peace of mind is shattered when her new husband surprises her with a gift—the house where she killed her mother. And it soon becomes clear that there is someone in the community knows Celia.

More and more, there are signs that someone in the community knows Celia’s true identity. When the real estate agent who sold them the house is brutally murdered and Celia is the first on the crime scene, she becomes a suspect. As she fights to prove her innocence, she has no idea that she and her son, Jack, are now the targets of a killer.

About Mary Higgins Clark

Suspense author, Mary Higgins Clark has had 51 novels that have been bestsellers in the United States and many other countries, all of which remain in print through 2015. It was through necessity that her career blossomed, but she had always had writing talent and aspirations.

Clark followed a dream in her early career and took time out to be a(at that time) stewardess for PanAm so she could see the world. Just before beginning her exciting new job.....being paid $5 less per week than her secretarial job.......she met William Clark who was so smitten with her that he proposed that she stay in the job for one year, then marry him at the end of that year. And they did just that. The Clarks had five children, and sadly her husband passed away from an extended bout of heart problems in 1964. Also, very sadly, his mother was at his bedside when he died, and she too passed away that very same night.

So, as stated before, out of necessity, Higgins Clark seriously launched her career of writing 51suspense novels with some being adapted to film. She is known as the "Queen of Suspense", she has the ability to serve as a master plotter to slowly create tension for the reader, while giving the appearance that everyone is guilty. Her books feature strong, independent women characters who are the heroines, who are noted for making sensible decisions. Readers tend to identify with these characters as more ordinary people than most novel heroines. Higgins Carter's novels are for adult readers, but because she does not include explicit sex or violence in them, they are also popular with children as young as twelve. Simon & Schuster have published all of Higgins Clark's novels, signed her to a $64 million , four book contract in 1990, and have funded the Mary Higgins Clark Award given to new authors of suspense novels.


Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Stacey on 2009-01-05 09:04:37

Good read if you want something fast & easy.

AudiobooksNow review by Jana on 2009-12-18 14:27:51

Good story - held my interest.

Goodreads review by Paula on September 07, 2017

Ten-year-old Liza Barton accidentally shot and killed her mother while trying to protect her from Liza’s 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 L......more

Goodreads review by Merril on September 07, 2016

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......more

Goodreads review by Ardent Reader on April 13, 2020

This is a story where Liza Barton has to clear her name from the incident where she accidentally shot her mother while trying to protect her from Liza's step father. I was really hoping for more gripping style of writing and the appearance of new characters here and there in the story made it difficu......more

Goodreads review by Oumaima on December 25, 2014

No place like home is an incredible, mind-blowing and an awesome thriller that I wholly recommend. It’s the first time I discover Higgins Clark’s pen, and one thing I’m sure of; it won’t be my last. No place like home is a thriller full of suspense, surprises and secrets, and I admit, that even if I’d......more

Goodreads review by Chris on July 11, 2024

Liza Barton is ten years old when she accidentally shoots her mother while trying to protect her from an attack from her stepfather. The death is ruled accidental and she is adopted by family, changes her name and starts a new life. Except her new husband happens to buy the house where the shooting......more