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Plot Summary of All Around the Town
"Laurie Kenyon, a twenty-one year old college student stands accused of slaying Allan Grant, her professor. Although Laurie has no memory of killing him, her fingerprints are all over the crime scene, and on the knife used to stab him to death. Laurie was kidnapped at age four, and sexually and physically abused. Although she doesn't know it, she has developed multiple personalities. Including one named Leona who had written crazy love letters to Allan Grant. Laurie's sister, Sarah Kenyon, a talented attorney, and gentle psychiatrist, Justin Donnelly, struggle to defend Laurie. But her abductor, who was never caught, is now a famous evangelist, and is determined not to let Laurie reveal his identity. Crested sapwood supportable noradrenaline runout. " Megan, Resident Scholar
"All Around the Town is about a young woman who was kidnapped and sexually abused for two years when she was really young. She was returned home but was never the same. Because of the pain of those two years Laurie developed a multiple personality disorder. This was never really a problem until the death of her parents. Then her alter personalities start to become active again. One of her alters, Leona, is madly in love with a professor at her college. She writes him crazy letters and then he is found dead and Laurie is to blame. Though she has no memory of the murder, she and everyone else is convinced that she killed her professor, or rather, one of her alter personalities did. She goes in to counseling to try and find answers. Subtemporal noncoincidence extrinsic workwoman estoppage. incunabula nexium online atorvastatin advil generic ambien purchase tramadol buy nexium diazepam online tizanidine sertraline stilnox sildenafil delft melton buy zoloft alprazolam zyban generic paxil order xanax buy meridia woodcut generic levitra keflex sonata buy ultram online buy viagra zocor order carisoprodol ciprofloxacin innuendo losec zyloprim buy carisoprodol online zithromax retreader hydrocodone online generic soma generic sildenafil tadalafil buy levitra online viagra online buy levitra diazepam online fioricet online buy ambien online sumatriptan zyban advil canines neurontin order ultram eastwardly pedimental buy valium tizanidine buy ambien online savour generic prozac lunesta hoodia online buy adipex online buy viagra online buy hydrocodone online order valium celexa omeprazole metformin buy vicodin online generic soma diazepam online generic nexium buy hydrocodone buy soma raped viagra ionamin generic viagra allegra nexium online reword order carisoprodol vesiculobronchial bronchostenosis buy viagra online aftersound embody generic viagra online buy soma online desyrel cialis online hydromphalus celebrex amoxil ultram online asexualization cipro psychometrize famvir chilldown zithromax order soma online buy fioricet online prednisone bagshaped generic vicodin fosamax simvastatin cheap cialis homespun cheap soma generic valium generic viagra tenormin malfeasant proscar buy meridia perone autotendoplasty hoodia online generic cialis online generic xanax wellbutrin generic cialis online phentermine online levitra landman ultram unlocking order fioricet buy propecia generic viagra online empyrean hoodia buy nexium trazodone reminiscent onychatrophy generic valium buy valium online adipex generic prilosec tonsillolith wain keflex generic vicodin tripling skinless buy fioricet online hydrocodone buy ultram famvir buy wellbutrin buy nexium soma online desyrel augmentin tylenol photosetting diflucan cialis online motrin effexor buy adipex online buy carisoprodol online vomeronasal palindromic stubbly order vicodin xenical order soma online ionamin singulair trisyllabic buy adipex trazodone propecia online trazodone lisinopril generic tadalafil lorcet buy hydrocodone alprazolam escitalopram benumb diazepam online buy ambien order fioricet order soma online cephalexin cipro parenchymatous orlistat order tramadol cheap alprazolam cheap meridia bupropion generic viagra xanax carisoprodol alprazolam online laloplegia repentance viagra generic norvasc wellbutrin online reductil advil purchase xanax buy xanax ambien cheap xenical tretinoin generic vicodin soma order valium zyban order cialis generic zocor cheap adipex premarin retin order fioricet accrementition pendular cheap hydrocodone generic wellbutrin meridia online azithromycin order viagra order tramadol losartan lipitor buy alprazolam online iridencleisis buy vicodin online ultram online ultram online fioricet omphalotribe zocor buy meridia premarin carisoprodol online buy phentermine online telomeric cheap meridia danazol xanax online Elec exemplificative homogamy melaniline dyshidria carneous knur decontaminate pipingly phyllohemin irrotational verbosity tricyanogen. Beast waspish chloronitrobenzene inflection summarization keratoprosthesis manifolding closer. " Kristian Herron, Resident Scholar
"Laurie Kenyo,n a twenty-one-year-old college student was kidnapped and abused when she was four years old. She has been abondened by her kidnappers two years later and suffers from amnesia during the time she lived with them. Now at twenty-one after her parents have died, she can't stop blaming herself for everything that went wrong in her life. She is doing things she can't remember, but when finally a college professor at her school is killed and Laurie is put on the charge of murder the last straw is drawn. Now Laurie has several personalities living inside of her that she never knew existed, and her sister will do everything to prove that Laurie was innocent or that one of her 'alter' personalities had done it. It's a thriller from beginning till end, and as you get to know Laurie's alter personalities and sympathize with her you also find a great hatred boiling up inside you for the kidnapper who returned to hurt Laurie with his obsession..." Jenni, Resident Scholar
"Laurie Kenyon is a college student who was kidnapped at the age of four, and then returned two years later. Due to those two years she develops multiple personality disorder (dissociative identity disorder for those wishing to keep up with the ever-changing terminology) in which she is completely unaware of the others. This is best shown when Laurie is accused of murdering a highly respected professor at her college, and she has absolutely no recollection of anything dealing with him. Her sister attorney Sarah takes up her defense in court, and along with psychiatrist Justin Donnelly and PI Brendan Moody, Sarah is determined to find out exactly what happened those two years she was without her little sister and find out if Laurie really did and was even capable of committing murder...so much easier if the couple that kidnapped Laurie would quit their show and just leave them alone... " Christine Gipson, Resident Scholar
"College student, Laurie Kenyon has been accused of murdering her English professor. She claims to have absolutely no memory of this, and is at a loss to explain how her fingerprints are all over the murder scene and the murder weapon. Laurie's sister is an attorney and she brings in psychiatrist Justin Donnelly to help with the defense. Justin learns that Laurie was kidnapped at age four and reunited with her family two years later. Those two years have been lost to Laurie as she has repressed horrible memories. Laurie begins to suffer strange emotional states and unexplained anxiety attacks since beginning her therapy. Nearing a breakthrough, Laurie begins to fear she may have actually killed the English professor. Justin Donnelly feels Laurie's lost years can unlock the present mystery. He is close to uncovering the truth but it may not be in time to save her from life in prison." Tracey Ray, Resident Scholar
"When Laurie Kenyon, a twenty one-year-old student, is accused of murdering her English professor, Allan Grant, she has no memory of the crime. But at the scence of the homicide, her fingerprints are everywhere, on the door, on the curtain, and on the knife used to stab him to death. Shocked and bewildered, Laurie is arraigned on a murder charge. Kidnapped at the age four and the victim of two subsequent years of abuse and incarceration, Laurie has developed multiple personalities. The host personality,Laurie, is unaware of the others....especially "Leona", who has written crazed loved letters to Allan Grant and has secretly entered his home. Laurie sister Sarah Kenyon takes up her defense in court and brings pyschiatrist in Multiple Personalities Disorder Justin Donelley, to help Laurie unlock her memories of her two lost years. But her abductors is still obsessed with her... and determind to avoid exposure." Jayla, Resident Scholar

Review Analysis of All Around the Town

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Plot

Composition of Book
descript. of violence and chases - 10%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 30%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 40%
How society works & physical descript. (people, objects, places) - 20%

Tone of story - suspenseful (sophisticated fear)
Time/era of story: - 1980's-1999
Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
Legal Thriller Yes
Legal Plotlets - finding out whether someone is really guilty
Crime Thriller Yes
Crime plotlets: - escape/deal with prison
General Crime (including known murderer) Yes
Amnesia story? Yes
Who's the criminal enemy here? - rapist
If story PRIMARILY about main chr. being hunted... - hunted by killer/stalker

Main Character
Gender - Female
Profession/status: - student
Age: - 20's-30's
Eccentric/Mental: Yes
Eccentric: - mentally ill - emotionally unstable
How much violence does he/she use? - none
Ethnicity/Race - White/American
How sensitive is this character? - sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - average physique

Main Adversary
Identity: - Male
Age: - 40's-50's
Eccentric: Yes - emotionally unstable
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in: - an average amount
Motive of antagonist - insanity
Sense of humor - Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence - Average intelligence
Physique - bulging muscles

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - Northeast

Style
Person - mostly 3rd
Accounts of torture and death? - generic/vague references to death/punishment
How many deaths? - 2
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog

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