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The Good Daughter
Karin Slaughter
Review by Priscilla Comen
The Good Daughter
Karin Slaughter
Review by Priscilla Comen
The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter is the incredible tale of two daughters, Samantha (Sam) and Charlotte (Charlie). When they are young teens two masked men break into their farmhouse in Pikesville, kill their mother, Gamma, and bury the injured Sam in a shallow grave. Their lawyer father, Rusty, has defended murderers, rapists, and gangsters because he believes in justice for all. Author Slaughter, who has published seventeen novels, keeps us on the edge from the very beginning.
Twenty years later there is a shooting at the middle school and Charlie, now a practicing attorney, finds herself in the middle of it, re-living those terrible hours at her family’s farm house. She had gone to the school to retrieve her cell phone from the man she had slept with the previous night. At a bar she’d met Huck, a teacher. It was a night out for her as she'd been separated from her husband, Ben, for nine months, and thought she was over him.
At the school shooting, a girl of eight has been killed, as well as the school principal Mr. Pinkman. The shooter is Kelly Wilson, an eighteen year-old student. Huck, a veteran of war, talks her into giving him the gun. Police and FBI agents arrive, and Charlie is a prime suspect as she was the first on the scene. Charlie is sure her father will defend the young girl because this is what he does. Charlie’s husband, Ben, is at the school and discovers the truth about Charlie and Huck’s night together. When Rusty is stabbed outside his home, he begs Sam, now a New York patent attorney, to take Kelly Wilson’s case until he is healed. Although severely damaged in the farm house shooting she is strong-willed and confident. Will she take the case? Will Sam and Charlie become friends again? Will Charlie and Ben get together again? How will Huck figure in the case? Will Kelly Wilson get a fair trial?
Find this fascinating novel on the new fiction shelf of your Mendocino Community Library.
Twenty years later there is a shooting at the middle school and Charlie, now a practicing attorney, finds herself in the middle of it, re-living those terrible hours at her family’s farm house. She had gone to the school to retrieve her cell phone from the man she had slept with the previous night. At a bar she’d met Huck, a teacher. It was a night out for her as she'd been separated from her husband, Ben, for nine months, and thought she was over him.
At the school shooting, a girl of eight has been killed, as well as the school principal Mr. Pinkman. The shooter is Kelly Wilson, an eighteen year-old student. Huck, a veteran of war, talks her into giving him the gun. Police and FBI agents arrive, and Charlie is a prime suspect as she was the first on the scene. Charlie is sure her father will defend the young girl because this is what he does. Charlie’s husband, Ben, is at the school and discovers the truth about Charlie and Huck’s night together. When Rusty is stabbed outside his home, he begs Sam, now a New York patent attorney, to take Kelly Wilson’s case until he is healed. Although severely damaged in the farm house shooting she is strong-willed and confident. Will she take the case? Will Sam and Charlie become friends again? Will Charlie and Ben get together again? How will Huck figure in the case? Will Kelly Wilson get a fair trial?
Find this fascinating novel on the new fiction shelf of your Mendocino Community Library.