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Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Salesrank: 793571
Released: 2001-04-17
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Book good shape shipping high 
The book came in 100% perfect condition. I received it on time, but the shipping charge was move than the book cost and I could have ended up buying locally at a cheaper price
Audio hard to follow 
I listened to the audio version of this book. I HATED the narrator. Her voice was so monotone and dull that I wasn’t able to follow the story. I’m not even sure I know what happened in the book. I don’t want to be overly critical of the book since I need to re-read it, but I don’t advise getting the audio version.
Interesting plot but expected
In this book, MHC used a different approach. We know what the killer is thinking, we know some of his moves, though we do not know why and who he is. It is also very interesting to link the murders 110 years apart, and playing with the possibility of evil reincarnated.
This makes it quite interesting for a read, as long as you don’t question too much of the logics (like who writes diaries like that, who would return letters to the senders after many years just for her safekeeping, who would share out personal diaries, etc).
However, what really disappointed me most is the killer (of current year) is so obvious. I have been suspecting the person, nearly from the 1st moment the person was introduced in the book. I might be having too much of ‘detective mind’, or MHC’s story is too predictable? Following a trait, after reading a few of her books, I can almost guess the killer even at the beginning of the book.
Not only for this one. I’ve also guessed the killer when reading ‘No Place Like Home’ few weeks ago. I think I have to give MHC books a pause, or I’ll lose all the fun of thrillers.
“Reflections Of A Girlhood?” 
This is the first Mary Higgins Clark novel I have read, but it won’t be the last. This is a very worthy page turner, with many secrets, subplots, richly described characters, & numerous murder suspects. There is a realistic, & highly detailed quality to the authors writing that is very refreshing. Feisty defense attorney Emily Graham’s new home in Spring Lake, New Jersey was once owned by her family one hundred years earlier. Soon after moving in a dead body of a girl who had gone missing four years earlier is found in her back yard while she was having a pool put in. The body is found with the finger of an even earlier murder victim complete with a Sapphire ring. As if that was not ominous enough, she also finds that she is being stalked again. Could it be some one from her past, or a new menace? The dead start to pile up, as Emily is hell bent on solving the link between the present murders with those committed a century earlier. Some of the locals even think a reincarnated serial killer is on the prowl?
The most fascinating aspect of this novel is that the author takes us DEEP into the mind of the killer, without revealing his/her identity. The overarching question that slowly grows to a crescendo is who is this obsessed psychopath? Is it Will Stafford, the real estate agent, Gary White, her greedy ex-husband, Eric bailey, the timid but shrewd owner of a dot-com company whose stock helped Emily amass a fortune? could it be Ned Koehler, a man convicted of stalking Emily when she lived in Albany, or Bob Frieze, the cranky restaurant owner prone to unexplainable blackouts when he can’t remember anything? Perhaps, it is Nick Todd, the defense attorney fed up with getting guilty clients off? Maybe, it is a woman? Could it be the elderly & supremely bitter Rachel lashing out at young girls for her husbands indescretions decades earlier, or a jealous secretary of an eccentric College professor? I won’t tell you the shocking ending, read it for yourself. You won’t be disappointed.
A wonderful story, but a bit confusing
This book is a great read for the beach as long as you have a pad and pencil with you to keep track of the characters. Other than that small problem it was a wonderful story and it will hold few surprises if you are a fan of Ms. Clark. Again, there is a single, career oriented female who must take on a series of baffling events. Her life is threatened and there are plenty of suspects. The characters were poorly developed and there were many loose ends. Overall, it wasn’t a terrible read, but I didn’t think it was up to Ms.Clarks writing abilities.
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