No Place Like Home

A Novel

By: Mary Higgins Clark

Narrated by: Jan Maxwell

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.©2005 Mary Higgins Clark; (P)2008 Simon & Schuster Audio

WOW!

This was one of my favorite books! I really loved it! I was hooked from the start! Very easy listening!

Great book!

Loved that I was totally surprised with the ending!! The narrator is wonderful! Love Mary Higgins Clark!

A well done novel!

Love this book. It is reminiscent of her early work and one of my favorites next to Remember Me. The story has a nice flow and a solid ending.

Rapt attention!! Well written!!

A child is responsible for her own mother’s death only to find herself back in her childhood home mistakenly bought as a birthday gift from her adoring husband. Serendipitously she begins to put together pieces of the puzzle from her jogged memory of the fatal night. Unknowingly putting her & her young son possibly in the same danger! Mary Higgins Clark is master mystery writer! Never disappoints

I loved it!

I loved ♥ it! I was sad of the ending and I cried a little. It was too much of a stretch to believe all the ending (trying not to give too much away) .