Charlotte and Samantha had a pretty good life growing up. While they weren't wealthy, they enjoyed time with their mother and when their father wasn't busy being a lawyer, time with him. Their father usually took on cases of people that were probably guilty, but he was always there to defend them. Many of the town people weren't real happy with the cases that their father Rusty took on.
Then the one day when two men entered their home and change the course of their life. They murdered their mother and took the girls out into the woods. The girls had a secret that would haunt them for most of their adult lives. Now some twenty-eight years later, Charlotte has become a lawyer, working in some aspect with her father. Samantha has moved away, also a lawyer, but she was a behind the scenes type of lawyer.
Charlotte is a key witness in a young girl shooting two people in a high school. Nothing about this case is sitting right with Charlotte, why would the young girl kill the teacher and one little girl? Charlotte knows that her father would take this case on in a heartbeat.
Samantha has not spoken to her father or sister in many years. In Samantha's mind, it was better that way until she gets an email from her former brother in law Ben. The entire message said is "Charlie needs you." As much as Sam hated to go back to her home town, she felt she must help her sister. Little did she know that the reason they needed her back was to try and help with this murder case. Sam decides that one day would not change anything, but of course, it does. So now we have the sisters back together, to try and figure out what happened the day of the murder. Somehow both of them feel that all this could have something to do with what had happened over twenty-five years ago.
I absolutely loved this book by Karin Slaughter. Slaughter brought the story of two young girls who had witnessed a terrible crime when their mother was murdered. Both have their own secrets and hidden mental problems after that day. Charlie has thoughts in her mind that just wouldn't go away. Sam, on the other hand, has more physical problems from that day. In THE GOOD DAUGHTER, Slaughter combines family with duty.
Slaughter also adds a slight bit of humor in this mystery with Rusty. It also shows how much the girls love their father, even though half the time they just can't deal with him. Slaughter had me guessing all the way to the end. Talk about a surprise ending, I never saw this coming. This is what makes it such a great murder mystery.
So if you really want a book that will keep you guessing, pick THE GOOD DAUGHTER up. You will love it.
Two girls are forced into the woods at gunpoint. One runs
for her life. One is left behindβ¦
Twenty-eight years ago, Charlotte and Samantha Quinn's
happy small-town family life was torn apart by a
terrifying attack on their family home. It left their
mother dead. It left their father β Pikeville's notorious
defense attorney β devastated. And it left the family
fractured beyond repair, consumed by secrets from that
terrible night.
Twenty-eight years later, and Charlie has followed in her
father's footsteps to become a lawyer herself β the ideal
good daughter. But when violence comes to Pikeville again
β and a shocking tragedy leaves the whole town
traumatized β Charlie is plunged into a nightmare. Not
only is she the first witness on the scene, but it's a
case that unleashes the terrible memories she's spent so
long trying to suppress. Because the shocking truth about
the crime that destroyed her family nearly thirty years
ago won't stay buried foreverβ¦
Packed with twists and turns, brimming with emotion and
heart, The Good Daughter is fiction at its most
thrilling.
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