The Murderer's Daughters Author:R. S. Meyers When she was only 10, Lulu watched her father kill her mother and critically injure her sister. Her overwhelming guilt at letting her father into the apartment that day, despite her mother's warning not to, drives her to protect her sister fiercely for years to come. — The girls first stay with their mother's sister, but are soon sent to ... more »a home. Though conditions are deplorable, Lulu is determined to make a better life for Merry and is able to manipulate Mrs. Cohen, one of the teachers, into taking both of them into her family as foster children. Even though the sisters are taken care of physically, they aren't loved like the grown children in the family, and Mrs. Cohen's death brings an end to any feelings of belonging they once had.
Throughout it all, Merry visits her father in prison, but Lulu refuses any contact and in fact covers up his existence. As the girls grow up and graduate from college, they stay close physically and emotionally. Only Lulu's husband knows the truth about his father-in-law; even their children are unaware. But as his release date grows near, tensions rise and the truth finds its way out.« less