- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Pocket Books; New edition edition (3 Mar 2003)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0743449371
- ISBN-13: 978-0743449373
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 77,319 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Daddy's Little Girl
and over one million other books are available for Amazon Kindle .
Learn more
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Did you know you can trade in your old books for an Amazon.co.uk Gift Card to spend on the things you want? Plus, get an extra £5 Gift Certificate when you trade in books worth £10 or more before June 30, 2012. Visit the Books Trade-In Store for more details. |
Product details |
More About the Author
Product Description
Review
Andrea, a 15-year-old girl, is bludgeoned to death and her boyfriend Rob is jailed, based on the evidence given by her younger sister Ellie. More than 20 years later he is released and is determined to clear his name, using the evidence of an alleged new witness that frames someone else. Ellie, now an investigative reporter, has always felt partially to blame for Andrea's murder and wants to foil Rob's efforts. She takes leave from work and dedicates her time to creating a website detailing his irascible behaviour in the hope that this will prove his culpability, without a care for the danger she is putting herself in. This is a clever and gripping page-turner from Mary Higgins Clark, the 'Queen of Suspense'.
Product Description
Ellie Cavanaugh was only seven years old when her fifteen-year-old sister, Andrea was murdered. Ellie's testimony was vital to the conviction of Rob Westerfield, son of a wealthy, prominent family. Twenty-two years later Ellie remains convinced of Westerfield's guilt. When he is released on parole and attempts to prove himself the victim of a miscarriage of justice, Ellie begins work on a book she believes will prove Westerfield's guilt beyond doubt. As she delves deeper into her research, she uncovers horrifying facts that shed new light on her sister's murder. And with each new discovery she comes closer to a confrontation with a desperate killer...
Inside This Book
(Learn More)
Suggested Tags from Similar Products(What's this?)Be the first one to add a relevant tag (keyword that's strongly related to this product)
|
What Other Items Do Customers Buy After Viewing This Item?
Customer Reviews
Most Helpful Customer Reviews
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I picture Mary Higgins Clark as a dear sweet white haired lady who hasn't really served time at the Life School of Hard Knocks. I might be completely wrong, because, as a grandmother myself, I certainly don't see myself as a white haired lady, but it is a certain quality in her writing which I can only describe as naive. I was going to put "endearingly naive" but I don't think so, I think "irritatingly naive" would be closer.
I was very gripped by this story, written from the perspective of the adult young woman whose older sister was murdered when the author was seven. The killer who has always protested his innocence of the crime, has served 22 years and is now free, but the author wants to prove once and for all that he was guilty.
To achieve this end, the writer makes it her mission in life to dig out all the dirt on the supposed killer and put it on her Website (sic). From the technical detail (or lack of it) used in the description of the website production I have little or no confidence that the author has any idea at all how to write and/or upload a website, but just hopes that if she keeps the details vague, we will be satisfied and assume she knows what she is doing. Or that most of her readers are similarly dear little white haired grandmothers who know as much about doing a website as the author, and will be none the wiser by the lack of technical know-how.
For example, she is given a map of the grandmother of the alleged killer's house, supposedly used to set up a robbery and attempted murder of said grandmother by her dastardly grandson. The author decides to put the map on the Website. How she achieves this using only a laptop in a hotel room, with no access to a scanner, we are not explained.
The author continues to put as many defamatory and unsubstantiated accusations on her Website as she can lay her hands on, and despite being warned of the safety of this tactic by everyone within a thousand mile radius, she is obsessed with proving this man's guilt, and listens to no one.
However I would be willing to forgive Mary Higgins Clark this endearing (??) naivity as to the technical expertise of grandmothers out there, if the book had some genuine twists and surprises in it. I won't spoil the story for you but suffice it to say, that element for me, ruined the whole reading experience.
Ruthie Pearlman
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
With a very few exceptions (i.e., her short stories collections) I have enjoyed Mary Higgins Clark's intrigue novels all through the last 20 years when I read "The Craddle Will Fall". Years have passed by, but she sticks to her old premises and nevertheless she still gets me stuck on the book and many times I have read some of her novels from begining to end in just one day. In "Daddy's Little Girl" her magic is back with a difference, the use of the first person to narrate the story.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I've never come across this author before but the sleeve caught my eye while passing some time in the airport. I'm glad it did. With hindsight the story is a bit corney and will make a great film for tv, but once you start to get into the character of Ellie, you really start to live her quest. The plot throws up plenty of "what if" scenarios that make it totally compulsive to get to the end just to see how it all works out. While I really loved this book, the ending could've been more sharply written, but all the same I did have a tear in my eye. It's a very easy read and if you have a couple of hours to kill, I can't think of a better way of doing so.
Would you like to see more reviews about this item?
Were these reviews helpful?
Let us know
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Doesn't understand the other reviews!
This book is a superbly written thriller novel that really did have me wanting to read more and more, to the point where I was sacrificing much-needed sleep to do so. Read more
Published 17 months ago by Buddy Ben
un-put-down-able
this book had me caught up in it from first page to the last - I resented anything and everything that caused me to pause.
Published on 12 May 2009 by Mrs. I. Commins
Loved it!
This was the first MHC book I read and I'm so glad I did! I'm on my second one and half way through reading at any opportunity! Read more
Published on 26 July 2006 by dizzyshelly
Read Cover to Cover - No Stopping!!
What a great book! Really felt like I was living the whole experience for myself! Never read a Mary Higgins Clark book before, really glad I have & have just ordered another 3... Read more
Published on 11 May 2006 by A Fun, Loving Mummy
Well written in 1st person format!
Ellie Cavanaugh has had to live with a guilt trip about her sister's death. Her sister was to meet Rob Westerfield but her father had prohibited her seeing him. Read more
Published on 11 May 2004 by Frederick A. Babb
daddys little girl
It is a good book but it was not suspenseful like i wanted it to be. all her books are suspenseful and good but this one is not that good. Read more
Published on 10 Dec 2003
classy first rate read
Always looking for a challenging read and having read some of Clark's previous novels. I chose Daddy's Littles Girl only because the authoress name was familiar. Read more
Published on 24 Sep 2003 by "dsjmgreen"
What a read!
I have read quite a few books in my time, of all different genre's, but this has to be by far the best. I read it within 24 hours. Read more
Published on 6 May 2003
Captivating, suspense novel, that I just couldnt put down!
One deary afternoon when it was raining outside I picked up Daddy's Little Girl and I was unable to put it down until I had finished it. Read more
Published on 1 May 2003 by Lisa O'Donnell
A nice change for an old favourite
Having read all of Mary Higgins Clark's previous books I was happy to see a new novel, one which came with recommendations from my friends in America. Read more
Published on 15 Oct 2002 by Christine L
Customer Discussions
|
This product's forum
Active discussions in related forums
Search Customer Discussions
|
Related forums
|
Listmania!
|
|
Look for similar items by category
Look for similar items by subject
Feedback
- Would you like to update product info or give feedback on images?
- I am the Author, and I want to comment on my book.
- I am the Publisher, and I want to comment on this book.
