Who Killed My Daughter?

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Summary: Good Good Book!
Review: Well this was like the first book I actually read and to all the teenagers out there i recomend this book. Its like you dont want to put the book down till the end to see what happends next. So if you want to get this book get it.

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Summary: Five star book for Young Adults
Review: When i finished reading this book i was in tears. It was very heartbreaking to know that this could actually happen and it be so graphic and detailed. Lois Duncan is an excellent author and her books are from the heart. Who Killed My Daughter is an excellent book because it had so much detail and i didn't want to put the book down. This book is beneficial for Young adults to read because it has so many eye opening revelations that would make a young adult think twice about doing something. I really enjoyed this book and am looking forward to reading Lois's newest novel on her newest findings of her daughters death.

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Summary: A must read!
Review: Who Killed My Daughter is a wake-up call on young murders, better yet on all murders. This was an excellent book that both made me cry but also stand back in total admiration for Lois Duncan. From beginning to end, this book held my full attention, and I was always anxiously awaiting the upcoming events. One reason I was awaiting upcoming events was that Lois Duncan showed how a person could survive the most tragic events in a life. After reading the tale of her struggle to find her daughter's murderer, I thought about the ways people deal with obstacles in life. The police insisted that her daughter, Kate's death was a random shooting, but Lois wouldn't take "random" for an answer. Not once did she ever throw her hands up in the air and give up. She persevered until she felt confidant with the efforts made to find a killer. When she couldn't get any response out of the police, she went to the FBI. When she couldn't get a response out of the FBI, she hired a private investigator. Whenever a lead came up and nobody else cared, when her private investigator failed, Lois took care of the lead herself by doing her own investigation. I give her a lot of credit for this determination because not only was she still grieving over her daughter's death, but she also was discovering bad secrets about her daughter while keeping after the case. Lois found out that her daughter was involved in insurance scams along with her boyfriend. Despite this bad news, Lois kept on working on the case. I don't know if I would be able to be this strong. I would want to take pity on myself and drown in my own misery. The only people she put her total trust in were herself and her family. She is a strong person, and someday if anything bad happens in my life, I hope I can be as strong as Lois was. Though I admire her strength, the authority figures made me angry. To see that everytime they received details about Kate's death, they never looked into them just made me sick. The police put this case on the back burner because they didn't want to fund all the investigations that would have to take place to solve the murder. Instead of the police looking into these situations, they wanted to declare this event a random shooting. This is an easy way out, but what about justice? I know if I were to be murdered, I would want my parents to know who killed me. In order for them to have peace back in their lives, they would have to have justice. This is what parents' need at a time when their lives are already in complete turmoil. I would want the police to work in total cooperation with them. I understand that investigations cost a lot of money, but more dead bodies from the murderers would mean a greater loss then the money used to catch the killers. Though this book made me angry at times, the reading widened my opinions on psychics. I was a skeptic of psychics before, but the way these people in the book knew information was amazing. Lois went to many physics throughout this story, and each one knew many details of the murder. They gave Lois a lot of information to fill in the gaps of Kate's murder. One told Lois where the accident took place, the motive, and the cars that were involved. This was astonishing because the police records matched their stories perfectly. After reading this novel, I believe that police should use psychics for information on these cases, especially since they knew the details before the police did. If the police in this book had given credit to them, then maybe they could have gathered more information on the case. Overall, this book was a fantastic tale of a family's struggle to find a murderer, an actual look into the justice system, and a breakthrough on psychic abilities. I've never read any of Lois' other books, but after reading this one, I might read another. I'm just very surprised that she can still write murder mysteries after this tragic event happened to her.