A review by ninaprime
Daughter of Mine by Megan Miranda

5.0

4.5 stars - Miranda applies the same genre tropes - insider/outsider dynamics, family secrets, shady cops - from her other novels to this one, but "Daughter of Mine" worked for me best. Hazel is a strong protagonist, who has a life, business, friends outside of her hometown, and that made her more compelling as her intuition led her to uncovering the truth. The atmosphere is heightened by the drought and break-ins, so it's believable as Hazel's paranoia escalates and adds to the narrative tension. Although I had a fairly good suspect in mind, I remained hooked throughout, reading the book in a single sitting. The missing half star is due to what I wish had been included - more flashbacks to Hazel's relationship with her mother and Jamie, and more of a drawn out epilogue to see how the family recalibrated after all the revelations

Spoiler

that their father had accidently killed his first wife when she was leaving him for his brother, that Gage was partially responsible for some break-ins trying to cover for his father (with creepy teen boys responsible for the others), and that Uncle Roy murdered Hazel's mother, Jamie's mother, and Nico's dad to cover for his crimes

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