The Murderer's Daughters

Name: The Murderer's Daughters
Brand: Recorded Books
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3 (2 reviews)
Author: Randy Susan Meyers
ISBN: 9781449808952

Author: Randy Susan Meyers

Narrator: Angela Goethals

Unabridged: 11 hr 40 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books, LLC

Published: 05/20/2010

Categories: Fiction, Family Life

Synopsis

This emotional debut by Randy Susan Meyers tells of two sisters torn apart by domestic tragedy. When her mother throws her father out, young Lulu is told never to let him in again. But Lulu disobeys, and the consequences are heartbreaking. Lulu’s mother ends up killed, and Lulu and her sister Merry are orphaned. Now, as the sisters grow into adulthood, they find the ghosts of their past are difficult to outrun. Narrators: Angela Goethals, Susan Bennett

About Randy Susan Meyers

Randy Susan Meyers is the internationally bestselling author of five novels, including Waisted, The Widow of Wall Street, Accidents of Marriage, The Comfort of Lies, and The Murderer’s Daughters. Her books have been designated one of the ten best works of fiction in 2010, 2014, and 2017 by the Massachusetts Center for the Book, an affiliate of the Library of Congress. She lives in Boston with her husband, where she teaches writing at the GrubStreet writing center. Her novels have been translated into more than twenty-six languages.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Cara on February 13, 2010

Rarely will one story make you literally feel anger or pain, let alone bring tears to your eyes. This story will do that to you. Two innocent and endearing children—young girls—have their sad little world torn apart the day their fathers enters their apartment in Brooklyn and kills their full-of-lif......more

Goodreads review by Bailey on May 23, 2014

On that fateful day, Merry and Lulu's father comes into their apartment in a drunken rage and does the unthinkable - kills their mother and wounds the youngest daughter, Merry. After being shuffled between several dysfunctional family members, the daughters live at an orphanage and are eventually ta......more

Goodreads review by Ryan on August 15, 2010

This was another one of those books that while the synopsis from the book sounded good (which is why I agreed to read it), it didn't really do the book justice. For some reason, and I'm not sure why, I was expecting a book that would have concentrated more on the father and that the story would some......more