I chose All Around the Town because of the reputation the author has. Mary Higgins Clark is one of my favorite authors, and definitely does nothing to spoil her reputation in this book. This book was very indulgent. The plot seemed never-ending because of the interesting turn of events. Also the characters seemed almost real by the way that they were written. In my opinion, this was an excellent book!

Laurie Kenyon is a twenty-one-year-old student at Clinton College with a shocking past. Laurie was kidnapped and abused when she was four years old. Two years after she was abducted, her kidnappers "Bic" and "Opal", abandoned her. She suffered from

amnesia while she lived with them. Now at twenty-one, after her parents have died, she cannot stop blaming herself for everything that went wrong in her life. She is doing things she cannot remember, and when finally her...