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Book Review of The Good Daughter

The Good Daughter
The Good Daughter
Author: Karin Slaughter
Genre: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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Twenty-eight years ago, the Quinn family's lives changed forever. Two masked men looking to get even with Defense Attorney Rusty Quinn break into his home. Rusty was not home but his wife and daughters were. In a matter of minutes, the mother is dead. The oldest daughter, Samantha, is show and buried alive. Charlotte, the youngest in the family, runs for her life. The repercussions of that night left the family devastated.

Now twenty-eight years later, Sam is estranged from her father and sister. Charlie works as a lawyer in the same office as her father. When Charlie stops at the middle school to talk to one of the teachers, she witnesses a horrific crime...a crime that causes her to remember things in her past that are better off forgotten.

This story is split between what is happening in the present, and what happened in the past as told by Charlie and Sam. Sometimes it was a little repetitious because we were getting two points-of-view, or we were told what happened...then was "really happened". Both the mystery in the present and the story in the past would not let me put this book down. I thought I had everything figured out, but there was a jaw-dropping moment in this book that I never saw coming. My rating: 4.5 Stars.