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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