<Tr> <Th> OCLC </Th> <Td> 65190581 </Td> </Tr> <P> No Place Like Home is a thriller novel written by Mary Higgins Clark and published in 2005 . </P> <P> The story starts with 10 - year - old Liza Barton accidentally shooting and killing her mother and shooting and injuring her stepfather Ted . She is acquitted of the crime and is later adopted by some distant relatives . </P> <P> Twenty - four years later, the story picks up with Liza determined to bury her past . She has changed her name to Celia Foster and married Alex Nolan after her first husband Larry's death . Alex, not aware of Celia's past, gifts her with a surprise birthday present--the keys to her own parents' home in a neighboring town Mendham . Alex, Celia and her 4 - year - old son, Jack, move into the home to find that it has been vandalized . Unsure of how Alex would react to her past, Celia decides to hide it from him for some more time . </P>

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