Dear Daughter: A Novel

Dear Daughter: A Novel

<b><b><i>€ </i> Winner of the Strand Critics Award for Best First Novel <i> €  </i>Nominated for the Barry and Macavity Awards for Best First Novel  <i> € </i> Longlisted for the CWA John Creasy (New Blood) Dagger Award</b><br><br>€œQuick-witted and fast-paced, this debut mystery should be a hit with <i>Gone Girl</i> fans.€ <b><b>€"</b></b><i>People </i>magazine </b><br> <b> <br> "This is an all-nighter . . . The best debut mystery I've read in a long time."<b><b>€"Tana French </b></b></b><br>    <br> <b>€œA really gutsy, clever, energetic read, often unexpected, always entertaining. I loved Janie Jenkins€s sassy voice and Elizabeth Little€s too. In the world of crime novels, <i>Dear Daughter</i> is a breath of fresh air.€</b> <b>€"Kate Atkinson, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>Life After Life</i></b><p>A sensational debut thriller featuring an unforgettable heroine who just might have murdered her mother<br><br>Former €œIt Girl€ Janie Jenkins is sly, stunning, and fresh out of prison. Ten years ago, at the height of her fame, she was incarcerated for the murder of her mother, a high-society beauty known for her good works and rich husbands. Now, released on a technicality, Janie makes herself over and goes undercover, determined to chase down the one lead she has on her mother€s killer. The only problem? Janie doesn€t know if she€s the killer she€s looking for.<br><br>Janie makes her way to an isolated South Dakota town whose mysteries rival her own. Enlisting the help of some new friends (and the town€s wary police chief), Janie follows a series of clues€"an old photograph, an abandoned house, a forgotten diary€"and begins to piece together her mother€s seemingly improbable connection to the town. When new evidence from Janie€s own past surfaces, she€s forced to consider the possibility that she and her mother were more alike than either of them would ever have imagined.<br><br>As she digs tantalizingly deeper, and as suspicious locals begin to see through her increasingly fragile facade, Janie discovers that even the sleepiest towns hide sinister secrets€"and will stop at nothing to guard them. On the run from the press, the police, and maybe even a murderer, Janie must choose between the anonymity she craves and the truth she so desperately needs.<br><br>A gripping, electrifying debut novel with an ingenious and like-it-or-not sexy protagonist, <i>Dear Daughter</i> follows every twist and turn as Janie unravels the mystery of what happened the night her mother died€"whatever the cost.</p>