Daughter of Mine by Megan Miranda

My thoughts

Megan Miranda is an auto go to author for me. She writes books that always keep me guessing. Always have me turning the pages. I’ve not been disappointed by her yet.

This is a wild ride getting to know the Holt family. Gage, Caden, and Hazel. Hazel comes back to Mirror Lake after their dad dies. For his memorial service. Then things take a sharp turn for her. For them. When there has been a drought for so long. 

No rain for sixty plus days things start coming to the surface. Or the water lets them be found. Two vehicles. No bodies though. Is it an insurance scam or did something way more sinister happen. Was anyone murdered.

The lives of these three people is going to be shaken to their foundations. Will they stick together or is one of them hiding secrets from many years ago. A family friend emerges and brings back memories for Hazel. Nico was her first love. But could be even be trusted. Could anyone. 

I liked all of these characters. They are all strong in ways and emotional. Weak in ways that make them human. There is another family member. The uncle. Roy Colt. He’s the lawyer. He’s in charge of their dad’s will and it seems he left the house to Hazel and there is not much of anything else. 

When Hazel decides she wants to know what happened to her mother all of their lives are changed. A wife goes missing. Hidden things start popping up. Life is changing and the boys, Caden and Gage, only want things to be left alone. But Hazel needs to know. She wants to know why her mother just abandoned her all those years ago. Many secrets are brought to life. Things are said and done that can’t ever be taken back. Someone is going to die. Someone is going to be found out.

This book is an edge of your seat thriller. It’s well written and leaves nothing undone. All is answered. It’s the best yet by this wonderful author. 

This was my third BOTM choice for April and I was so happy with it. I also have to thank #NetGalley, #MeganMiranda, #SimonElement, #Simon&Schuster, for this ARC. This is my own true thoughts about this book.

FIVE big stars and a huge recommendation. Grab it, you won’t be disappointed.

About

The new thrilling novel from Megan Miranda, the instant New York Times bestselling author of All the Missing Girls, The Last to Vanish, and The Only Survivors.

When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake’s longtime local detective, unexpectedly inherits her childhood home, she’s warily drawn back to the town—and people—she left behind almost a decade earlier. But Hazel’s not the only relic of the past to a drought has descended on the region, and as the water level in the lake drops, long-hidden secrets begin to emerge…including evidence that may help finally explain the mystery of her mother’s disappearance.