The Daughter (The Family Secrets Series, 1)

Synopsis

A Daughter's Unexpected Inheritance Following Her Estranged Father's Death Plunges Her Into A Web Of Crime And Deceit In Small-town Wisconsin In The Latest Emotionally Taut Novel From Sara Blaedel, A Writer Karin Slaughter Calls A Force To Be Reckoned With And Whose Books Have Sold Over 3 Million Copies Worldwide. School-portrait Photographer Ilka Nichols Jensen Is Leading A Modest, Regimented, Anything-but-extraordinary Life In Copenhagen When Unexpected News Rocks Her Quiet Existence: Her Father--who Walked Out Suddenly And Inexplicably On The Family More Than Three Decades Ago, And Whom She Hasn't Heard From Since--has Died. And, Even More Surprising, He's Left Her Something. His Funeral Home. In Racine, Wisconsin. Desperate For A Connection To The Parent She Never Really Knew, Ilka Makes An Uncharacteristically Rash Decision And Jumps On A Plane To The United States. There She Stumbles On An Unsolved Murder And Into The Path Of A Killer. Suddenly, Learning Everything She Can About The Man Who Was Her Father Becomes A Matter Of Life And Death--because What Ilka Doesn't Know Might Just Kill Her . . . Compelling And Unique, The Daughter Delves Into A Dark And Fascinating World Rarely Explored In Suspense Fiction. Sara Blaedel Knows How To Reel In Her Readers And Keep Them Utterly Transfixed. --tess Gerritsen One Of The Best I've Come Across. --michael Connelly Crime-writer Superstar Sara Blaedel's Great Skill Is In Weaving A Heartbreaking Social History Into An Edge-of-your-chair Thriller. --oprah.com