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Loading... Dear Daughter: A Novel (original 2015; edition 2014)by Elizabeth Little
Work InformationDear Daughter by Elizabeth Little (2015)
   Books Read in 2015 (2,776) No current Talk conversations about this book.   ) Chris.Wolak | Oct 13, 2022 |   ) HeatherRoseBotta | Apr 12, 2022 | ) mbellucci | Apr 10, 2021 | Jane has been in jail for the past 10 years. She was convicted of her mother’s murder, but she doesn’t think she did it. She doesn’t remember. But she does remember finding the body and hiding in a closet while she heard someone say things. Because evidence was mishandled in her case, Jane’s lawyer, Noah, gets her out after 10 years. She decides right away that she needs to find out who murdered her mother. So, on the basis of things she overheard while she was in the closet, she travels to a small town in South Dakota. And now Jane has a mystery to solve. This entire book takes place in about a week. Everyone Jane meets in the small South Dakota town, with one exception, has lived there all their lives. That’s not very realistic, but just go with it. It’s a neat little mystery. I didn’t find it predictable at all, my problem with many other mysteries. So I enjoyed it. But it left me hanging. I had too many questions in the end. ( ) techeditor | Feb 14, 2021 | The story is well-written and keeps me on my toes. However, I wish that the author, Elizabeth Little, had eliminated all the cussing because I felt that it was not adding to the story. There are other ways to express frustration, sarcasm, sadness, etc. But that aside, I think she did a good job with the storyline. ( ) caslater83 | Jun 2, 2019 | no reviews | add a review
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HTML: â?˘ Winner of the Strand Critics Award for Best First Novel â?˘ Nominated for the Barry and Macavity Awards for Best First Novel â?˘ Longlisted for the CWA John Creasy (New Blood) Dagger Award â??Quick-witted and fast-paced, this debut mystery should be a hit with Gone Girl fans.â?ť â??People magazine "This is an all-nighter . . . The best debut mystery I've read in a long time."â??Tana French â??A really gutsy, clever, energetic read, often unexpected, always entertaining. I loved Janie Jenkinsâ??s sassy voice and Elizabeth Littleâ??s too. In the world of crime novels, Dear Daughter is a breath of fresh air.â?ť â??Kate Atkinson, New York Times bestselling author of Life After Life A sensational debut thriller featuring an unforgettable heroine who just might have murdered her mother Former â??It Girlâ?ť 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 motherâ??s killer. The only problem? Janie doesnâ??t know if sheâ??s the killer sheâ??s looking for. Janie makes her way to an isolated South Dakota town whose mysteries rival her own. Enlisting the help of some new friends (and the townâ??s wary police chief), Janie follows a series of cluesâ??an old photograph, an abandoned house, a forgotten diaryâ??and begins to piece together her motherâ??s seemingly improbable connection to the town. When new evidence from Janieâ??s own past surfaces, sheâ??s forced to consider the possibility that she and her mother were more alike than either of them would ever have imagined. 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 secretsâ??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. A gripping, electrifying debut novel with an ingenious and like-it-or-not sexy protagonist, Dear Daughter follows every twist and turn as Janie unravels No library descriptions found. |
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