PDF A quick note to let you guys know that the publication date has moved up to August 8th for various exciting reasons that will become clear later on. I also want to talk a little bit about the story. Subscribe to the Free Printable newsletter. No spam, ever! Subscribe Free! Two girls are forced into the woods at gunpoint.
One runs for her life. One is left behind. Twenty-eight years ago, Charlotte and Samantha Quinn's happy small-town family life was torn apart by a terrifying attack on their family home.
It left their mother dead. It left their father—Pikeville's notorious defense attorney—devastated. And it left the family fractured beyond r Two girls are forced into the woods at gunpoint.
And it left the family fractured beyond repair, consumed by secrets from that terrible night. Twenty-eight years later, Charlotte has followed in her father's footsteps to become a lawyer herself—the ideal good daughter.
But when violence comes to Pikeville again, and a shocking tragedy leaves the whole town traumatized, Charlotte is plunged into a nightmare. Not only is she the first witness on the scene, but it's a case that unleashes the terrible memories she's spent so long trying to suppress--because the shocking truth about the crime that destroyed her family nearly thirty years ago won't stay buried forever. Packed with twists and turns, brimming with emotion and heart, The Good Daughter is fiction at its most thrilling.
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See all 64 questions about The Good Daughter…. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 4. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Jun 13, Emily May rated it really liked it Shelves: arc , , mystery-thriller. This is the second thriller I've read lately that opens with a shitstorm of drama. In the best kind of way, of course. But The Good Daughter is, in some ways, much darker than Stillhouse Lake , and in other ways slower and more character-driven.
It's not a bad thing. It's a clever technique that always ensures I'm invested, whe This is the second thriller I've read lately that opens with a shitstorm of drama. It's a clever technique that always ensures I'm invested, whether or not I can figure out the twists and whodunnits.
The Good Daughter is essentially a deeply emotional, character-driven family drama , set to the backdrop of two brutal crimes.
The first happened years ago - two armed men forced their way into the home of young Samantha and Charlotte, murdering their mother and turning their lives completely upside down. The girls, now adult women and lawyers, are left with both the physical and mental scars; it is hard for the sisters to be around each other without serving as a reminder of the horrendous night that ruined everything. The second crime, twenty-eight years later, is a school shooting that Charlie finds herself a witness to.
When Sam returns to town, both of them are caught up in the case. It seems pretty obvious what happened - mentally slow teenager, Kelly, is caught literally with the smoking gun in front of two dead victims. But how much can Kelly be held responsible? Is everything as it seems? And, Charlie must ask herself: what, exactly, did she really see that day? I don't know which story was most compelling - the gradual unveiling of what happened all those years ago, the investigating of the shooting and the dark secrets behind it, or the complex relationship between Sam and Charlie; the web of guilt, bitterness and love that they are tangled up in.
I should warn potential readers that there are some very disturbing and gory scenes of violence and view spoiler [rape hide spoiler ]. Slaughter doesn't gloss over details and there were some parts that had me cringing.
If you are particularly sensitive to this, I wouldn't recommend The Good Daughter for you. But I was able to get past it. My one main complaint about the book was that Slaughter does like to waffle on a little too much in parts. Some conversations between Sam, Charlie and Rusty go on for pages and pages without really adding anything.
Though Tana French is occasionally prone to over-detailing, so I'm forgiving of it. Other than that, though, I thought it was a great read. Both drawn-out and complex, but also dramatic and compelling.
The author gets the balance just right. Blog Facebook Twitter Instagram Youtube View all 47 comments. Shelves: from-publisher , favorites. I began devouring her books right around my 18th birthday and have continued to do so for almost 10 years. She was the first person who understood my need for consuming mysteries, thrillers, and all-around dark themed novels; the fact that I was able to pick up Blindsighted right as my mother was going through a scary breast cancer diagnosis and treatment was not lost on me.
No way could this woman make me love another man with Sarah. How dare she? I also loved her standalone novels of late and thought they were a fantastic way for new fans to dip their toes in the great expanse of the Slaughter kingdom. So that brings us up to speed for The Good Daughter.
Cop Town had the feel of historical crime fiction that was heavily character driven and tied in to the past of some familiar previous characters, while Pretty Girls was a highly disturbing thriller wrought with tension and graphic content.
I believe the reason I was so drawn in by The Good Daughter was due to the nostalgic vibe it gave off. We are presented with an estranged couple we desire to reconcile set in a small town off of Atlanta with major drama that is kept within that close circle.
I did really enjoy that we were able to follow a family of lawyers this time; it gave a fresh spin on the procedural formula that seems to work so well for the author. This story did have a little more action than some in the past, but as we all know the reason to read any book by KS is due to her master characterization skills.
The lady can write some relatable, intriguing, and empathetic characters! Speaking of, THIS is how you develop the people telling your story. THIS is how you write inclusive, diverse crime fiction. THIS is how you incorporate graphic content in a respectful manner that furthers the story and emotionally ties the reader to the characters.
It feels like real life and what we all desire from mainstream fiction. Tough, timely issues are covered here, such as the life of a transgender woman in the deep south, the using and abuse of a child with diminished mental capacities, and the long, seemingly impossible journey to healing and restoration after such a brutal incident as described in the prologue were all just pieces of what made this book such a strong contender for my Top 10 reads of Highly recommended to anyone who enjoys a procedural that makes you feel things that we, as humans, should never grow numb to.
I apologize for the lengthy review and hope you enjoy this read as much as I did. View all 80 comments. A quick note to let you guys know that the publication date has moved up to August 8th for various exciting reasons that will become clear later on. I also want to talk a little bit about the story.
With extremely, incredibly light spoilers in that I tell you who some of the characters are, but not what happens, especially when the aliens come and impregnate the men ha ha okay I'm just kidding about that, but you've been warned!
I really enjoyed writing from the point of view of non-investigators in PRETTY GIRLS, because it was a challenge to figure out how to put Claire and Lydia in the middle of the action in a believable way, and have them make choices that a normal person would make as opposed to choices that would just easily further the plot but don't make a lot of sense for a real human being who is afraid for their life.
So I decided to write about a family of lawyers I know, how did I not just kill them all on the first page. At first I was a little hesitant about writing another sister story, because I didn't want to be the "sister story woman" which sounds like the title of a great Amish TV show but I am the youngest of three sisters, so I know what sisters are like, and also, I write about murder in every book and no one thinks of me as the murder woman though I understand having a last name like "Slaughter" does beg the question.
I also wanted to go back to writing about a small town, as I haven't really done that since Grant County. I grew up in a small town, and I do most of my writing in a beautiful, small mountain town Pikeville is not you, Blue Ridge! A lot of times my stories tend to reflect what I'm not seeing in other books that I read, or what I really like in books that I've read I'm thinking of you, Liane Moriarty!
I am so proud of the way that Will and Sara's relationship has evolved, and I love the respect that they have for each other, because I think more than anything, that's what women crave in a partner: someone who respects their opinion, who they are, what they feel.
You could go all the way back to the Knight's Tale in Canterbury Tales to understand this long-standing desire. So, I took the opportunity to write about a woman who adores her husband, but can't quite stop screwing things up. And why she keeps screwing up goes to the heart of one of the many mysteries in this story. Long-time readers will know that I also try to be inclusive in my writing and discuss how the world is for people with disabilities, so I took the opportunity in the GOOD DAUGHTER to write a bit about the struggle for someone who has mobility issues and how often times, small towns are not equipped to handle them whether through lack of funding or lack of care.
Another character I was very eager to write about is Rusty Quinn. A few years ago when Go Set a Watchman came out, I was at dinner with a bunch of authors for Thrillerfest in NYC and the NY Times had just released an excerpt where it was revealed that Atticus Finch was not the saint that many of us were led to believe. Greg Isles and I got into a heated discussion about whether or not an educated man in a small Southern town would behave and think the way that the "new" Atticus did.
He was firmly on the side of educated men, and I was firmly on the side of a more nuanced approach perhaps because I had just read a book on the lynching of Leo Frank, and seen photos of some of Georgia's most upstanding citizens--lawyers, judges, p0liticians--standing proudly beside his hanged body. At any rate, I wanted to write about a complicated man, not the saint that Scout worships in To Kill a Mockingbird, and not the casual racist she sees in Watchman.
Rusty is a good man, but he has his flaws, chief among them the belief that he always does what is right. Now, as with a lot of people, what "right" means tends to be whatever he feels justified in doing. The question of whether or not he is a good man, or a good flawed man, is another one I mull over in the book.
Well, I think that's all I can say without dropping some massive spoilers. So I will leave you with my heart-felt thanks to the GoodReads community many of whom I've shared some wonderful communications with and hope that you love this story as much as I do.
I know every author says that their favorite book is the last one they wrote, but I cannot express to you how happy I am with the themes and relationships and the fast pacing and the tension that I managed to weave through this novel.
Please come see me on my tour! Karin Slaughter View all 94 comments. This clever author has penned another compelling and tantalizingly twisted thriller in her signature no-holds-barred approach. For me, Karin Slaughter has always been an author who delivers on both fronts—the deliciously dark and depraved madness, counterbalanced perfectly with touches of wittiness and tenderness.
The emotionality, actions and thoughts of her characters feel genuine—like they could step right off the page. I find myself wanting to be around these people, to dig into their psyches and unearth exactly what makes them tick. The Good Daughter starts off with a bang or a shotgun blast to be more exact. One fateful afternoon—at a remote farmhouse in the small Georgia town of Pikeville—changes the trajectory of the Quinn family. It's another series of gunshots, 28 years later, that brings the estranged Quinn sisters, Charlie and Sam, back together.
The thing is, the blood and guts served up by Karin Slaughter comes across as more than just shock-inducing antics. If you know me at all or have taken the time to peruse my reviews, you might know, the other half of my dark heart is composed of an optimistic lover of love.
So, naturally, I found myself falling for Ben and his nerdy ways early on. Part of the overall intrigue for me was tied to finding out what could have pushed Ben and Charlie so far apart.
My lips are sealed, other than to say, when the full story came out, my heart ached for them. Let the countdown begin for my next Slaughter fix. View all 97 comments. Aug 03, Deanna rated it really liked it Shelves: highly-recommended , my-favorites. After reading the description and the prequel for this novel, I knew I had to read it soon. I really did both laugh and cry while reading this novel. The book opens in Samantha Quinn is fifteen years-old and her younger sister, Charlie is thirteen.
The Quinn family are living in an old farmhouse after someone burned their house down with a Molotov cocktail. The attack was likely someone angry at lawyer father, Rusty Quinn who often defends men many lawyers would never represent. But not even two weeks later, another attack of violence and brutality changes the lives of everyone in the Quinn family forever. Twenty-eight years later, Charlie Quinn has followed in her father's footsteps and is now a lawyer in small town Pikeville.
But that's where the similarities between Charlie and her father end. Charlie passed up jobs with big firms in the city. She moved back and decided she wanted to help normal, everyday people who found themselves in trouble and didn't have someone smart enough, or even who cared enough to try to get them out of trouble.
Charlie's husband, Ben is a prosecutor and she is a defense attorney. Her father, Rusty Quinn defends robbers, drug dealers, and murderers. The people in town either loved him or hated him. It depended on whether or not they or their family members had ever needed his services.
Charlie is tough and can be quite impulsive. She'll often act without thinking of the consequences. For example: shoving a man who slapped his wife in the grocery store, antagonizing a group of thugs, or going alone to rough areas of town in the middle of the night. But when Charlie witnesses a horrific act of violence, old feelings and memories rise to the surface, forcing her to face things that she tried hard to suppress.
But most secrets don't stay buried forever. You may think you can put your secrets in a "box on the shelf" but eventually those boxes either burst open on their own or you open them up to deal with them. Her throat closed. Her vision tunneled. Everything looked small, narrowed to a single, tiny point. I was up until after 4am reading. I needed to know what was going to happen next. At times it was so intense that I really was holding my breath in anticipation of what was coming next I will warn readers, that there are some parts that are very difficult to read, the subject matter can be quite upsetting.
However, I was able to skim those parts without missing much of the story-line. After an author has written so many books, I feel like it must be very difficult to come up with new plots that twist and turn. But Karin Slaughter does it. She can stop me in my tracks with one twisty sentence.
I don't think I saw any of the twists coming. The main characters and the supporting characters were fantastically well-developed. They all added something to the story. I wanted to discuss this book with everyone. Highly recommended! Thank you to Netgalley and HarperCollins for an advanced readers copy of this book for me to read in exchange for my honest review. View all 88 comments. If you ever find yourself in need of a good criminal defense lawyer, Rusty Quinn is the man.
He is notorious for the acquittals his clients have received. Legendary for his beliefs that all people deserve the best legal defense possible, no matter what their station in life or the crime they've been accused of. With Rusty on your side you'll be singing his praises as well. Scott Fitzgerald once said: "Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.
Twenty Eight years ago tragedy knocked on the Quinn Family's door. For the survivor's, those old wounds will never completely heal.
Today in the Quinn family home town, tragedy has struck again. There has been a school shooting. The accused shooter is a teenage girl and as she is taken to the local hospital, Rusty chases the ambulance there in order to secure his role as her defense attorney. This book is the weaving together of what really happened 28 years ago and the truth behind this latest school shooting.
Slaughter Daughter is sensational. A second hand on a watch. A door latching closed. A firing pin tapping against the primer in a shotgun shell. My baby didn't do what they're saying. The woman did not seem to understand that Rusty Quinn was exactly the kind of man that her daughter needed. I have a heart condition. I have a filthy mouth that I apparently passed on to my daughters.
I guess the smoking and the drinking are two separate things, but Go to the police station after you eat. Tell them you're my co-counsel. Get Kelly alone in a room and talk with her. Five minutes, tops. You'll see what I mean. You want to talk about seeing? I was there less than a minute after it happened. I saw Kelly literally I watched that little girl die. But Ironside over here thinks that she's innocent.
Instead, he had said, '"Many people must have told you that you are lucky to be alive. I think you would have been lucky had you not been shot in the first place. No one had ever acknowledged that she had a right to be angry about how she must survive. He was in a wheelchair, right elbow on the armrest, cigarette in his hand.
I'm talking to one of my beautiful daughters. I've got a fresh pack of smokes. All I need is a glass of bourbon and I'd die a happy man.
She could be lower functioning than any of us wants to believe. You can lead her anywhere, Dad. Stupid can break your heart. Charlie had always been the good daughter, the one who laughed at his jokes, the one who challenged his opinions, the one who had stayed.
And I love him for living life on his own terms. Your knowledge of WD, Ms. Slaughter, I am impressed. Darcy to Bingley. This was rusty's real legacy. They were going to sit around quoting a dead man quoting dead people for the rest of their lives. View all 65 comments. Jun 02, Crumb rated it it was amazing Shelves: thriller , best-of , karin-slaughter.
I have officially drank the Karin Slaughter kool-aid. It's not that I had an aversion to reading a book by Karin Slaughter , it's just that I kind of kept putting it off. Boy, what a mistake! It was chilling, explosive, and shocking. Those are just three words that I could use to describe this book. It was also so much more. In all honesty, I don't feel there is much more that I can add to the overwhelming amount of positive reviews that already exist for this novel, bu I have officially drank the Karin Slaughter kool-aid.
In all honesty, I don't feel there is much more that I can add to the overwhelming amount of positive reviews that already exist for this novel, but I will try. This book opens with a pretty horrifying event. Samantha and her sister, Charlie bore witness to their mother's death. Not only that, they are then led out into the woods by the men who had just killed their mother with a rifle.
What happens next will be a defining moment in both Charlie's and Sam's lives forever. That day will also hold a secret that will take 28 more years to uncover. Time only dulled the edges. This was a plot-driven book. My favorite type of book. More importantly, this was a plot-driven book with characters that I liked. Characters that I cared about and felt invested to from the beginning of the book.
I felt such extreme pain and anguish from the trauma these sisters had suffered. And it left the family fractured beyond repair, consumed by secrets from that terrible night. Twenty-eight years later, and Charlie has followed in her father's footsteps to become a lawyer herself — the ideal good daughter. But when violence comes to Pikeville again — and a shocking tragedy leaves the whole town traumatized — Charlie is plunged into a nightmare.
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