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The Daughter - by Jane Shemilt (Paperback)

The Daughter - by  Jane Shemilt (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><P>In the tradition of Gillian Flynn, Tana French, and Ruth Rendell, this compelling and clever psychological thriller spins the harrowing tale of a mother s obsessive search for her missing daughter.<P>Jenny is a successful family doctor, the mother of three great teenagers, married to a celebrated neurosurgeon.<P>But when her youngest child, fifteen-year-old Naomi, doesn t come home after her school play, Jenny s seemingly ideal life begins to crumble. The authorities launch a nationwide search with no success. Naomi has vanished, and her family is broken.<P>As the months pass, the worst-case scenarios kidnapping, murder seem less plausible. The trail has gone cold. Yet for a desperate Jenny, the search has barely begun. More than a year after her daughter s disappearance, she s still digging for answers and what she finds disturbs her. Everyone she s trusted, everyone she thought she knew, has been keeping secrets, especially Naomi. Piecing together the traces her daughter left behind, Jenny discovers a very different Naomi from the girl she thought she d raised."<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>In the tradition of Gillian Flynn, Tana French, and Ruth Rendell, this compelling and clever psychological thriller spins the harrowing tale of a mother's obsessive search for her missing daughter.</p><p>Jenny is a successful family doctor, the mother of three great teenagers, married to a celebrated neurosurgeon.</p><p>But when her youngest child, fifteen-year-old Naomi, doesn't come home after her school play, Jenny's seemingly ideal life begins to crumble. The authorities launch a nationwide search with no success. Naomi has vanished, and her family is broken.</p><p>As the months pass, the worst-case scenarios--kidnapping, murder--seem less plausible. The trail has gone cold. Yet for a desperate Jenny, the search has barely begun. More than a year after her daughter's disappearance, she's still digging for answers--and what she finds disturbs her. Everyone she's trusted, everyone she thought she knew, has been keeping secrets, especially Naomi. Piecing together the traces her daughter left behind, Jenny discovers a very different Naomi from the girl she thought she'd raised. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><p>Jenny is a successful family doctor, the mother of three great teenagers, married to a celebrated neurosurgeon.</p><p>But when her youngest child, fifteen-year-old Naomi, doesn't come home after her school play, Jenny's seemingly ideal life begins to crumble. The authorities launch a nationwide search with no success. Naomi has vanished, and her family is broken.</p><p>As the months pass, the worst-case scenarios--kidnapping, murder--seem less plausible. The trail has gone cold. Yet, for a desperate Jenny, the search has barely begun. More than a year after her daughter's disappearance, she's still digging for answers--and what she finds disturbs her. Everyone she's trusted, everyone she thought she knew, has been keeping secrets, especially Naomi. Piecing together the traces her daughter left behind, Jenny discovers a very different Naomi from the girl she thought she'd raised.</p><p>Jenny knows she'll never be able to find Naomi unless she uncovers the whole truth about her daughter--a twisting, painful journey into the past that will lead to an almost unthinkable revelation. . . .</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"Jenny is a strong believable character...[her] journey is a memorable one."--<em>Publishers Weekly</em><br><br>"Shemilt injects a great deal of suspense into her narrative in both time frames, even as her fluid prose eloquently captures a mother's grief and painful journey to self-awareness."--<em>Booklist</em><br><br>"It's every mother's nightmare: the disappearance of a child. But in <em>The Daughter</em>, what appears to be a simple abduction soon turns into something far more complex and baffling. Jane Shemilt builds layer upon layer of tension in a thriller you won't be able to put down."--Tess Gerritsen, bestselling author of <em>Last to Die</em><br>

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