Book Reviews of No Place Like Home

Clark's books have been reduced to simplistic, predictable formulas with little innovation or creativity to spark them to life. Even the villain was predictable given Clark's over-worn habit of repeatedly choosing the same character type as the villain.

The plot depends on a series of highly improbably coincidences bordering on the absurd. The characters are stereotypes from her previous novels. Clark does remain exceedingly good at writing a flowing, rhythmic narrative. At times I found myself yelling at the heroine because she made so many dumb moves guaranteed to have a bad outcome.

Clark remains one of my favorite authors, but I feel she didn't work very hard earning her paycheck on this book.

This one was one of the best. could not resist the desire to keep turning the pages. Ignore the need to do the chores, just read the words and enjoy.

great book. MHC is one of the best. She out did her self once again. Made you feel as you were there.

MHC. Need I say more

Clark serves up her usual tasty tale of a woman threatened by a tragedy in her past, complete with multiple suspects and tangled web of mayhem.

Can't say enough about MHC! Any of her books are awesome! She gets you from about the 3rd page on! Recommend any of her books!

Typical of the latest books by Mary Higgins Clark, this book is too formulaic and predictable. The ending is a letdown because it is obvious in the last 3rd of the book what is going to transpire. The ending is trite and MHC has wrapped everything up in a nice little package.

Another good book from Mary Higgins Clark!

A bit draggy in places but still a good story. Quick read.

A young woman is ensnared into returning to a place she had wanted to leave behind forever---her childhood home. There, at the age of ten, Liza Barton had shot her mother, trying desperately to protect her from her estranged stepfather, Ted. Despite his claim that the shooting was a deliberate act, the Juvenile Court ruled the death an accident. To erase Liza's past, her adoptive parents change her name to Celia. At age twenty-eight, a successful interior designer, she marries a childless sixty-year-old widower, Laurence Foster, and they have a son. Before their marriage, she revelas 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, Alex Nolan, surprises her with a gift---the house in Mendham, New Jersey, where she killed her mother.

Excellent read. I am so addicted to Higgins Clark that I can no longer wait for the paperback versions.

This was an excellent book!

I loved this book! It was a murder mystery without any sex or foul language. It was wonderful. The book is about a young girl who accidently shoots and kills her mother. The girl is sent to live with distant relatives, changes her name, and tries to hide from her past. Then, many years later, her husband unknowingly buys her childhood home. She has hidden her past from him, but now must face it. Strange things begin happening when she returns home.

Got this book from PBS - first Higgins Clark book I have read, but it certainly won't be my last - I loved it and I never would have guessed the ending.

A great read!

This is one of Mary Higgins Clarks best ever written books. The subject of the story is a very likeable person ( young lady ) who grows up in the book. She has suffered a lot in her young live and then is made to suffer more in her adult life! Very suspense full and very enjoyable read!

Another excellent Mary Higgins Clark book designed to be read quickly.

The story line was pretty good, but I figured it would be since I love this author's work. But the ending was a bit reaching in my opinion.

loved this one. higgins-clark's best in a long time.

Really good.

In a riveting new thriller a young women is ensnared into returing to a place she had wanted to leave behind forever. Very good read.

EXCELLENT BOOK! I have yet to read a book of Mary Higgins Clark I didn't like. Read this one in 2 1/2 days. What a page turner!

This was a very good book. I got it from another paperbackswapper and it looks like it was a library book.

Great book! I didn't know who did it until the last4 pages!

Not quite up to the expected Clark suspense, but still a good read.

Very predictable and it felt like I had read it before.

Very good book!!

Liza Barton shot her mother at age ten, trying to protect her from Liza's stepfather. At 32, fate puts her back into the same house. On the day they move into the house "Beware" is painted on the lawn. When the real estate agent is murdered, Liza becomes a suspect. As she fights to prove her innocence, she is not aware that she and her son are now the targets of a killer.

Yet another good mystery from Mary Higgins Clark!

Liza Barton accidentally shot and killed her mother when she was a child. She has changed her name and her life and is now a grown woman with a husband and a child that know nothing of her past. To her surprise, her husband buys her childhood home where the shooting took place. Can she still continue to hide her past or will it come back to haunt her?

Great book! I love how well-hidden Mary Higgins Clark keeps her "baddies"... I'm always surprised at the end and this book is no different! Fast read and interesting!

You just have to read it to see what happens..

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