The Other Daughter: A Novel

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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Before She Disappeared comes a propulsive thriller exploringthe 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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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 couldnt 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 wantAlfred 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, its 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

Author Bio

Lisa Gardneris theNew York Timesbestselling author of thirteen novels. Her Detective D. D. Warren novels includeLive to Tell, Hide, Alone,andThe Neighbor, winner of the International Thriller Writers Award. Her FBI Profiler novels includeSay Goodbye, Gone, The Killing Hour, The Next Accident,andThe Third Victim. She lives with her family in New England.