On the Street Where You Live

Fiction by Mary Higgins Clark
Reviewed by Leslie K.
Not in the NVHS collection as of this post


Emily Graham is haunted by two murders that are closely linked, even though 110 years separate them. After breaking a marriage between her and her husband and being pursued by an obsessive stalker, Emily decides to leave Albany for a new criminal defense attorney job in Manhattan. For her new house, she bought her ancestor’s home, a Victorian house in Spring Lake, New Jersey. In 1892, her family sold the house after Emily’s great-great-great-aunt Madeline Shapley, then a young lady, disappeared.

Now that Emily has bought this house, she starts renovating her backyard for a pool. When they were digging, the remains of a skeleton of a young woman were found. She was identified as Martha Lawrence, who disappeared from Spring Lake four years before. In Martha’s hand they find something extraordinarily amazing. They find a finger bone of a young woman with a ring on the finger, a Shapley family heirloom. Emily seeks to find the link between the recent murder and family’s past. While she does this, she becomes in danger to a cunning and crafty killer, who has chosen her as the next victim.

On the Street Where You Live excited me with every page turn. I never wanted to put it down. I was amazed at some of the discoveries in this book. Mary Higgins Clark has written a remarkable story that jumped from the page.

This novel was great at keeping me excited. Mary Higgins Clark has written a wonderful book, just like the other books she has written. I would recommend this book to anyone who loves adventure and who loves a good mystery.