Dear Daughter

Dear Daughter has three of my favorite things in a book: a smart, damaged, unstoppable narrator with a slicing sense of humor; needle-sharp writing that brings characters and atmosphere leaping off the page; and a vivid, original plot full of satisfying twists. This is an all-nighter, and the best debut mystery I've read in a long time

Tana French

Clever, original, and darkly witty, Dear Daughter’s many twists will keep you on your toes as you fall under the spell of its unapologetic, whip-smart narrator

Kimberly McCreight, New York Times bestselling author of Reconstructing Amelia

What a devilish, delightful treat of a novel! Crackling with wit and shining with originality, Dear Daughter is the kind of whirlwind mystery that will keep you hooked—and guessing—until the very end

Sara Shepard, New York Times bestselling author of Pretty Little Liars

Gone Girl meets Mean Girls

Glamour

A terrific page-turner...hilarious... Finally, a thriller that deserves the tag 'the new Gone Girl'

Bookseller, 'Editor's Choice'

A really gutsy, clever, energetic read, often unexpected, always entertaining. I loved Janie Jenkins’s sassy voice and Elizabeth Little’s too. In the world of crime novels, Dear Daughter is a breath of fresh air

Kate Atkinson

I couldn't put it down!

Julie Cohen, author of Richard and Judy choice, Dear Thing

Elizabeth Little has created a fast-reading mystery rich in dialogue, demonstrating a special talent for great one-liners and crisp observation, and has given her protagonist enough sass and wit to complement the half-wits she has to tolerate on a daily basis as she tries to recover her memory of past events and solve a mystery where she just might be the killer

Derek B. Miller, CWA award-winning author of Norwegian By Night

Clever… razor-sharp

Metro

The writing is sharp as a tack, the heroine feisty and the mystery will keep you guessing until the very last page – a corker

Candis, Book of the Month

Scalpel sharp, plenty of twists and a feisty narrator, you won’t be able to put it down

Woman & Home

This amazing book is like Gone Girl meets Gossip Girl - it's gonna be HUGE!

Company

Extremely well-written…a brilliant début…outstanding

Crimesquad

Every year a few books stand out. This is one of them

Sun

A clever, witty thriller you’ll want to gobble up in one go

Good Housekeeping

This crime fiction début is the real deal. Unreliable narrator? Check. Plot twists? Yup. Razor-sharp writing? That, too... A thrilling, gripping read

Glamour

A brilliant read

Daily Express

With a narrator so unreliable you suffer from constant seasickness, and the same fizzy sense of the media tracking the case that gave Gone Girl such edge, this is the thriller of the summer… This is so damn good that it’s worth going on holiday with someone you hate, just so you can ignore them all week

Alexandra Heminsley, The Debrief

Dark, sharp and witty

Emma Hunt & Claire Frost, Sun

Smart, darkly funny and packed with plot twists… Heroine Janie is an engaging and complex character… An enjoyable romp of a read which is incredibly difficult to put down

UK Press Syndication

Janie Jenkins [is] a snide, sharp-tongued and sparky LA bitch channeling her inner Paris Hilton

Charlotte Heathcote, Sunday Express

Captivating… Sharp and dramatic – we couldn’t put it down!

Closer

With a compelling cast of superbly drawn characters, a serpentine plot and crackling dialogue laced with stark, pungent asides, Dear Daughter defies you to put it down

Geoffrey Wansell, Daily Mail

The real pleasure of this novel is its main character. As narrator, Janie is razor sharp, amoral and fizzing with coal-black wisecracks… A very modern and very funny take on a murder mystery

Deidre O'Brien, Sunday Mirror

Original and full of twists

My Weekly

[Janie’s] wit is bitter and devastating, her put-downs Pulitzer-worthy

Guardian

Fresh and fizzing and original, this is such an impressive debut

Bookseller

a sassy firecracker of a crime novel

John Koski, Mail on Sunday

Pacy and exciting...Totally different

Clare Mackintosh