The Good Daughter

The Good Daughter – Karin Slaughter

Twenty-eight years ago, the Quinn family’s life was shattered. Two masked men broke into the rural Georgia farmhouse where lawyer Rusty Quinn lived with his wife and two teenage daughters, Samantha and Charlotte. The attack left their mother dead and the girls traumatized, with Samantha severely injured, and the sisters’ lives went in very different directions afterward.

The Good Daughter, by Karin Slaughter, begins in the present, when Charlie, now a lawyer like her father, is caught up in another act of violence: a school shooting in the town of Pikeville that leaves victims dead and a teenage girl accused of the crime. Charlie becomes a witness, and as her father, a controversial defense attorney known for taking unpopular cases, agrees to defend the accused girl, Charlie is drawn into the investigation.

The tragedy forces Charlie to reconnect with her estranged sister, Sam, now a successful patent attorney in New York, who returns to Georgia. As the sisters confront the shooting and its unanswered questions, they must also face painful memories of the night that destroyed their family, and long-buried secrets about what really happened.

Slaughter, known for her intense and unflinching crime fiction, combines a gripping legal thriller with an emotional family drama, exploring trauma, survival, sisterhood, guilt and justice.

The Good Daughter will appeal to fans of psychological suspense and crime fiction. Readers should be aware that it contains graphic depictions of violence, including sexual violence and a school shooting, as well as other disturbing themes.