Tuesday, May 14, 2019

The Bad Daughter by Joy Fielding


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Title: The Bad Daughter
Author: Joy Fielding
Call #: FIC Fielding
Published: 2018

Therapist Robin Davis panics after her older sister Melanie calls bearing tragic news from their home town Red Bluff, California. Their father, Greg, his second wife, Tara, and Tara’s twelve year old daughter, Cassidy, have been shot and all are unconscious in the hospital. At first, signs point to a home invasion, but then it’s obvious the Davis’s opened the door for whoever did this horrendous crime. Robin has estranged herself from her family and Red Bluff due to animosity for her sister and father. Unfortunately, this isn’t news she can ignore.

The Davis sisters, feeling only mistrust and resentment for one another, must learn to be connected in a way they never really were while they grudgingly unfold this mystery of who shot their father and his new family. Fingers get pointed at nearly every person in the vicinity of the mansion crime scene, even at immediate family.

Joy Fielding keeps readers wondering until the very end who shot the Davis family. She masterfully builds the circumstances of the crisis and carefully unfolds each layer to the reader beside Robin, who’s not convinced, but suspecting something completely different until the final clues unravel. Readers will likely echo Robin in asking, “What am I missing?” until the very end.

Erin I. 
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