Daughter / Kate McLaughlin.
Seventeen-year-old Scarlet Murphy is shocked to learn that the father she never knew is a notorious serial killer, and now that he is dying, he will give the names of his remaining victims to his daughter--but only if she agrees to meet with him.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781250817440
- ISBN: 1250817447
- Physical Description: 330 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Wednesday Books, 2022.
Content descriptions
Target Audience Note: | Ages 13-18. Wednesday Books. |
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Subject: | Serial murderers > Fiction. Victims of crimes > Fiction. Publicity > Fiction. Families > North Carolina > Fiction. Fathers > Fiction. Raleigh (N.C.) > Fiction. |
Genre: | Thrillers (Fiction) |
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Summary
Daughter : A Novel
* 2023 ITW Thriller Award for Best Young Adult Novel * Kate McLaughlin's Daughter is a young adult novel about trying to right deadly choices that were never yours to begin with. Scarlet's life is pretty average. Overly protective mom. Great friends. Cute boy she's interested in. And a father she's never known - until she does. When the FBI show up at Scarlet's door, she is shocked to learn her father is infamous serial killer Jeffrey Robert Lake. And now, he's dying and will only give the names and locations of his remaining victims to the one person, the daughter he hasn't seen since she was a baby. Scarlet's mother has tried to protect her from Lake's horrifying legacy, but there's no way they can escape the media firestorm that erupts when they come out of hiding. Or the people who blame Scarlet for her father's choices. When trying to do the right thing puts her life in danger, Scarlet is faced with a choice - go back into hiding or make the world see her as more than a monster's daughter.