The Silent Daughter: An unforgettable, heart-stopping page-turner that you won't be able to put down

Danni is suffering a great loss. Her husband and her two young children have perished in a house fire. She is sure that she and her older daughter were meant to die with them .. but who hates them that much to want to wipe out an entire family? Her 17-year-old daughter, Mia, is so traumatized she barely talks. Danni is desperate to know what really happened that night, but everyone around her seems to have a hidden agenda. Danni was horribly abused and bullied when she was a child ... by her older sister. Danni's husband was once her sister's boyfriend .. you can imagine how well that went over! She hasn't spoken to her sister in 20 years. Would her sister, at this late date, still be angered enough to kill the family? Mia is also a victim of bullying by another classmate. There is also a young man who follows Mia constantly, taking pictures of her. Mia wants nothing to do with either of them, but no matter how hard she tries to stay in the shadows, these two cause her untold misery. Could either of these young people go so far as to kill everyone in Dannie's family? Eventually it comes out that her husband had been cheating on her .... with whom is the surprise. She keeps pushing him to leave his family, but he'd finding it harder than he thought. Did his lover get tired of waiting and decide to kill them all? Well-written is story is told in segments from the past to today. Warning: There are a couple of chapters that leave the identity of the person 'speaking' unknown. It's suspenseful from the very first page. The characters are deftly drawn and the ending just took me totally by surprise. Never saw that coming! There are plenty of suspects to follow and wait for them to reveal their secrets and lies. Many thanks to the author / Boldwood Books / Netgalley for the digital copy of this psychological thriller. Read and reviewed voluntarily, opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.