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The Other Daughter

A Novel

Lisa Gardner

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English
Bantam USA
15 April 2009
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before She Disappeared comes a propulsive thriller exploring""the dark side of family life, where the ties that bind also gag, choke, and strangle"" (Publishers Weekly).

""Lisa Gardner always delivers heart-stopping suspense.""-Harlan Coben

The family you love the most may be the people you should trust the least. . . .

Twenty years ago, Melanie Stokes was abandoned in a Boston hospital,thenadopted by a wealthy young couple. Gifted with loving parents, a doting brother, and an indulgent uncle, Melanie has always considered herself lucky. Until tonight.

Tonight, a has-been reporter turns up, investigating her past. Tonight, the first note arrives, saying, ""You Get What You Deserve."" And tonight, Melanie has her first, horrifying vision of the past.

Melanie has no memory of her life before the adoption. Now someone wants to give it back, even if it includes the darkest nightmare the Stokes family ever faced- the murder of their first daughter in Texas. As Melanie pursueseverylead, chases every shadow in search of her real identity, two seemingly unrelated events from her past will come together in a dangerous explosion of truth.

Winner of the Daphne Du Maurier Award for Suspense
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Imprint:   Bantam USA
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 174mm,  Width: 105mm,  Spine: 28mm
Weight:   227g
ISBN:   9780553576795
ISBN 10:   0553576798
Pages:   404
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Lisa Gardner is the New York Times bestselling author of thirteen novels. Her Detective D. D. Warren novels include Love You More, Live to Tell, Hide, Alone, and The Neighbor, winner of the International Thriller Writers' Award. Her FBI Profiler novels include Say Goodbye, Gone, The Killing Hour, The Next Accident, and The Third Victim. She lives with her family in New England.

Reviews for The Other Daughter: A Novel

Praise for Lisa Gardner and The Other Daughter “To read Lisa Gardner is to put yourself in the hands of a master storyteller.”—Riley Sager, New York Times bestselling author of Home Before Dark “Lisa Garner is the master of the psychological thriller.”—Associated Press “Just when you thought Lisa Gardner couldn’t get any better . . . she does.”—Lee Child “A dark, powerful tale of nerve-shattering suspense.”—Tami Hoag “Readers get loads of angst, great procedural stuff, some hair-raising action scenes, and a villain to keep you awake at night. What more can any thriller reader want?”—Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine “Scary, gritty, terrifying. Lock the door, leave on a light.”—Oakland Press “A page-turner.”—Rocky Mountain News “[A] suspenseful, engrossing page-turner . . . Totally absorbing, it’s one of those books that keeps you up late, enslaved by the ‘just one more chapter’ syndrome.”—Mystery News “Sheer terror . . . a great read.”—Iris Johansen


  • Short-listed for WH Smith Thumping Good Read Award 2000
  • Shortlisted for W H Smith Thumping Good Read Award 2000.
  • Shortlisted for WH Smith Thumping Good Read Award 2000.

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