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    The Other Daughter: A Novel
    The Other Daughter: A Novel
    The Other Daughter: A Novel
    Audiobook11 hours

    The Other Daughter: A Novel

    Written by Lisa Gardner

    Narrated by Brittany Pressley

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    About this audiobook

    Twenty years ago, Melanie Stokes was abandoned in a Boston hospital, then adopted by a wealthy young couple. Gifted with loving parents, a doting brother, and an indulgent uncle, Melanie has always considered herself lucky. Until the first cryptic, threatening note arrives: “You Get What You Deserve.”

    Melanie has no memory of her life before the adoption. Now someone wants her to remember it all—even the darkest nightmare the Stokes family ever faced: the murder of their first daughter. As Melanie pursues every lead and 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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateDec 18, 2018
    ISBN9781721333837
    The Other Daughter: A Novel
    Author

    Lisa Gardner

    Lisa Gardner is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty novels, including Look for Me, Right Behind You, Find Her, Crash & Burn, Fear Nothing, Touch & Go, Catch Me, and The Neighbor, which won the International Thriller of the Year Award. She lives with her family in New England.

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    • 5/5
      This book was great! It was engrossing, though only captivated me tightly after the intro set in the past.
      I highly recommend a listen! The narrator is my favourite-she does an amazing job! Enjoy ?
    • 5/5
      Great story with lots of twists. My first read from this author - will definitely look for more of her books.
    • 5/5
      Lisa Gardener is an excellent story teller. Great narration as well!
    • 5/5
      Not since girl gone by Gillian Flynn have I enjoyed a book in this genre! Lots of plot twists ans surprises!! Kept my attention from the very first words! I'll definitely be reading lots more books written by Lisa!
    • 4/5
      Will grab you and keep you guessing. Every chapter kept you traveling to the next with wonder.
    • 5/5
      This is not a genre I normally would read but it drew me in from the first page. So many interesting characters in the story and a great unexpected ending. I will look forward to reading more books by this very talented author.
    • 5/5
      Loved this book! Had interesting storyline and lots of characters to keep you guessing
    • 5/5
      Very good book keeps you guessing all the way through
    • 5/5
      Spell binding. An absolute page turner of love, betrayal, forgiveness.
    • 5/5
      Loved it! Great plot twist! Couldn't stop listening. Thank you.
    • 5/5
      This was an excellent read, in my opinion. Very complex story, covering 25 years and interconnected stories. Very suspenseful. Highly recommend this, if you enjoy mostly a mystery, with some psychological suspense and a romantic element. The beginning is not as good as the middle and end, so my advice is to hang in there.
    • 5/5
      Another great story with twist and turns. I loved it.
    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed this! Kept me in suspense until the very end! Would definitely suggest for others to read!
    • 5/5
      She has the best plots! Twists n turns n surprises! Written so that I had no problem relating to characters. The ending? Unbelievable!
    • 5/5
      I just love when I can’t figure out the mystery. This one kept me guessing through every twist and turn!
    • 4/5
      Good book, I think there's just enough intrigue to keep you enthralled. Great audio-version.
    • 5/5
      Loved it! Every chapter keeps getting better and better! Must listen
    • 5/5
      The Other Daughter was my first Lisa Gardner's book and I was utterly pleased with it. This book had me glued to every single page from the very start to the end.

      This was a great and entertaining suspense story, full of suspicion, danger, and many puzzles to solve. It kept me curious and edgy almost the entire time. The plot was exceptional and the characters were appealing, especially the hero, David Riggs, who has such a strong character. He’s consistent, clever, courageous, and most of all, he never gives in. This book gave me the chills while I was reading far into the night and the storyline kept me guessing constantly all the way through. Moreover, there were a lot of twists and turns that never stopped surprising me again and again.

      The Other Daughter had everything I could possibly want in suspense story: great plot, interesting and well-developed characters, and good twist ending. The story was very engaging, perfectly paced, and thoroughly gripping.

      All in all, this was an amazing suspense-mystery-thriller story with a slight touch of romance, one of the most incredibly intense reading experiences I’ve ever had. I absolutely enjoyed reading this book!
    • 3/5
      This book was just ok. Some things left me asking questions about the main character. Without giving any spoilers some parts just didn’t seem plausible and left me with questions.
    • 1/5
      Terrible, convoluted plot that makes no sense at all. Listen to the first 3 chapters, and then the next to last chapter. Everything in between is misleading, boring, or just stupid. The FBI is horrifically misrepresented, as is all police work here.
    • 4/5
      At nine years old, a little girl with no memory of her past was abandoned in a hospital, and after several months was adopted by the wealthy Stokes family--a cardiac surgeon, his wife, and their son Brian, a family grieving the kidnapping and murder of the Stokes' four-year-old daughter, Meghan, five years earlier.Twenty years later, Melanie Stokes is happy, confident, loving and loved by her adoptive family. She volunteers for various charities, especially the American Red Cross. On the night of one her major events, a party plus blood donation event plus "donate a rare book" to raise funds, a voice out of the past intrudes. A reporter from Texas, Larry Digger, catches her when she's getting a breath of fresh air, grabs her, and makes some alarming suggestions about her past. He says she's the daughter of Russell Lee Holmes, the man who, along with the deaths of six other young children, confessed to kidnaping and murdering the Stokes' first daughter, Meghan. And he says that her parents know. How did she come to be abandoned in the very Boston hospital where Dr. Harper Stokes worked? Why was he there, and not in Texas with the rest of the family, watching the execution of Russell Lee Holmes on that night? Why hasn't she ever recovered her memory of her first nine years? Has she really not remembered anything?Melanie is rescued from the clutches of the reporter by one of the waiters hired for the party, David Riggs. What she doesn't know about him is that he's an FBI Special Agent, investigating her father for insurance fraud.The Stokes family and their friends (Melanie's stepfather, Jamie O'Donnell; her boss and friend at the Red Cross, Ann Margaret; her father's younger colleague and briefly Melanie's fiancé, William Sheffield) have a frightening array of secrets, and where Melanie came from and why she doesn't remember her first nine years, is just the tip of the iceberg.And what Melanie hasn't told anyone yet is that the migraines she's been having are accompanied by frightening dreams, or visions...or memories, of being in a cabin in the woods, where Meghan Stokes is desperately pleading to be taken home. She tries to bury those memories, and certainly doesn't want to tell anyone--but Larry Digger's alarming suggestions fall on fertile ground.Meanwhile, David Riggs has his own issues. Arthritis killed his baseball career, and as an FBI agent has him investigating insurance fraud, not organized crime, and he feels he's failed his father. And he's lying to Melanie about what he's doing around her family. Even after he admits to being an FBI agent, he's still hiding the fact that he's investigating her father, not her former fiancé, for insurance fraud.Everyone in Melanie's life, though, is lying to her, about far more important things, and it's all about to blow up on all of them.It's a large and complex secret that needs to be uncovered, and we get some interesting and complex character development along the way.Recommended.I bought this audiobook.
    • 5/5
      The Other Daughter (Lisa Gardner).A psychological suspense Thriller. Melanie Stokes has it all. A prominent wealthy Surgeon father, beautiful loving mother, and a Godfather who dotes on her. She knows she is lucky because she is adopted, and never gave thought to her real parents. She also lives with a family tragedy, one that is never spoken of. Her sister Meagan was murdered 20 years ago, by the child serial killer Russell Lee Holmes.Melanie starts to ask about her sister, she has memory loss, can not remember anything prior to her adoption. Yet these un-re-memorable memories begin to haunt her. She starts to question her family, coming up on dead ends. She wonders if she really is loved, who are her "parents" and can this crazy man be her biological father?An intense read, with surprises along the way. Lisa Gardner knows how to draw in a reader and keep you hanging on until the last page. All night reading suspense.
    • 3/5
      Fast Pace Thriller; easy listen - A little girl Meghan Stokes is kidnapped and found decapitated - another little girl shows up in the hospital where Dr Stokes works- she is abandoned -name unknown, no one claims her - eventually she is adopted by the Stokes, needing a daughter to love - ends up she is the daughter of the convicted murderer of their child - she happened into the hospital, the same day of the execution. Who killed Meghan? Which of these people is the real killer - -Someone wants the real story out and "you get what you deserve" notes show up & with leaks to the FBI there are a lot of moving parts to keep up with but a good thriller although somewhat cheesy
    • 2/5
      Ordinarily I really enjoy Lisa Gardner's stories. Maybe this one was dated but I did not find any of the characters (except David) likable or believable. The story just seemed too far fetched to hold my interest.
    • 3/5
      I'm conflicted about this one... on one hand, it's a very engaging thriller that definitely kept me reading to the end. On the other, I find much of the story and set-up far-fetched to say the least. Why would morphine erase 9 years of her life? Hey, we've been seeing each other for a month (without saying much) so we should get married! And so on. I also figured out much of the story pretty early on... that said, I still wanted to see how it all fit together.
    • 3/5
      Enjoyed the book. I found it a bit confusing trying to learn all of the characters and their connections but by the end had it. A strange story and a bit unbelievable but enough of a twist that I could not figure it out.
    • 4/5
      Professional event planner Melanie Stokes does not suspect that the death of a serial killer in a Texas electric chair 20 years before could have any relevance to her neatly ordered existence. But as it becomes clear that the life she's known (as the adopted daughter of Boston cardiologist Harper Stokes and his trophy wife, Patricia) is based on ugly secrets and bloody lies, her world unravels. With the help of FBI Agent David Riggs, who makes up for his lack of physical agilityAthe result of ankylosing spondylitis (bad back problems)Awith finely honed reflexes, street smarts and pure sex appeal, Melanie unearths what an intricately planned 25-year-old cover-up can't hide: the gruesome truth about her parentage. Once again, Gardner serves up suspense at a furious pace. A good page turner
    • 3/5
      Typical, no real surprises, but a nice quick read.
    • 3/5
      Decent mystery, but must be prepared to suspend belief in order to enjoy: physics of electrocution and EMT procedures wrong, Feebie behavior beyond unprofessional - just plain suspicious. After three or four chapters, I decided I was reading a fantasy and just went with it.
    • 4/5
      Very intriguing story and one I didnt immediately suspect the ending to like so many suspense novels. I had trouble putting it down!