THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER "Brilliant....About as good as a thriller can be."-- The New York Times Book Review " A] nail-biter perfect for Room fans."-- Cosmopolitan "Sensationally good psychological suspense."--Lee Child Praised by Karin Slaughter and Megan Abbott, The Marsh King's Daughter is the mesmerizing tale of a woman who must risk everything to hunt down the dangerous man who shaped her past and threatens to steal her future: her father. Helena Pelletier has a loving husband, two beautiful daughters, and a business that fills her days. But she also has a secret: she is the product of an abduction. Her mother was kidnapped as a teenager by her father and kept in a remote cabin in the marshlands of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Helena, born two years after the abduction, loved her home in nature, and despite her father's sometimes brutal behavior, she loved him, too...until she learned precisely how savage he could be. More than twenty years later, she has buried her past so soundly that even her husband doesn't know the truth. But now her father has killed two guards, escaped from prison, and disappeared into the marsh. The police begin a manhunt, but Helena knows they don't stand a chance. Knows that only one person has the skills to find the survivalist the world calls the Marsh King--because only one person was ever trained by him: his daughter. A Michigan Notable Book
My husband and I took turns reading it and struggled putting it down.
Published by Jennifer B. , 5 years ago
The main character's point of view was very touching. It gave us a whole new perspective of the situation. The switch between past and present helped us to understand why the main character responded the way she did to everything along the way. Although the story was fictitious, the situation is for sure real in the world today. I feel that it has helped me to be more sensitive to people who have been abused.
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