Join us on a literary world trip!
Add this book to bookshelf
Grey
Write a new comment Default profile 50px
Grey
Subscribe to read the full book or read the first pages for free!
All characters reduced
The Daughter - cover

The Daughter

Janie Owens

Publisher: Next Chapter

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

Summary

If you were the parent of a twenty-five-year-old daughter, who is an unemployed perpetual student and descended upon you with her cat, what would you do?
 
Rachel and Joe, who retired to a 50-Plus condo, must exercise tough love on their only child Angie after she leaves an ashram, searching for her purpose - again. At the insistence of Joe, Angie finds a job at a burger joint on the shores of Daytona Beach.
 
She is dating Josh, the son of man living in the condo with connections to gambling. But fruit doesn’t fall far from the tree. After being harassed at work by a man who turns up dead, Angie suspects Josh is the murderer, and she and Rachel begin sleuthing.
 
Amid threats from Josh’s father and being captive in a sinkhole, Angie realizes her strengths. But can they discover the truth?
Available since: 02/03/2022.
Print length: 220 pages.

Other books that might interest you

  • Dropped Dead Stitch - cover

    Dropped Dead Stitch

    Maggie Sefton

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Seventh in the nationally bestselling Knitting mystery series. 
     
     
     
    Spring has sprung for the knitters of Fort Connor, Colorado, and the House of Lambspun. But for one of Kelly Flynn's pals, things are unraveling . . .  
     
     
     
    After Kelly's friend Jennifer is attacked by a stranger, their close-knit group of friends escapes to a ranch retreat in the mountains to stitch and talk. But they're in for a shock when the owner of the ranch turns out to be Jennifer's attacker—and he's found dead a few days later.
    Show book
  • The Musgrave Ritual - Sherlock Holmes - cover

    The Musgrave Ritual - Sherlock...

    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    "The Musgrave Ritual" is a short story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring his fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. The story was originally published in Strand Magazine in 1919, and was collected later in The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes. Unlike the majority of Holmes stories, the main narrator is not Doctor Watson, but Sherlock Holmes himself. With Watson providing an introduction, the story within a story is a classic example of a frame tale. It is one of the earliest recorded cases investigated by Holmes, and establishes his problem solving skills.
    In the story, Holmes recounts to Watson the events arising after a visit from a university acquaintance, Reginald Musgrave. Musgrave visits Holmes after the disappearance of two of his domestic staff, Rachel Howells, a maid, and Richard Brunton, the longtime butler. The pair vanished after Musgrave had dismissed Brunton for secretly reading a family document, the Musgrave Ritual. The Ritual, which dates from the 17th century, is a riddle set in question/response form.
    Show book
  • Air Force One - an action-adventure political technothriller - cover

    Air Force One - an...

    M. L. Buchman

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Brace for the ultimate plunge! The seemingly invincible Air Force One suffers a catastrophic engine failure. When it plummets into the Atlantic with the U.S. President and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff aboard, the world dives toward a peace-shattering crisis. 
    	Enter Miranda Chase, the high-functioning autistic air-crash genius, and her extraordinary NTSB team. Faced with an impossible deep-sea salvage operation of the 747, Miranda must rely on her unparalleled intellect and her diverse crew: the fiercely loyal Holly, methodical Mike, brilliant Jeremy, and resilient Andi, along with the enigmatic Taz.  
    	This meticulously researched, hard-hitting, and suspenseful thriller unveils a deep-seated conspiracy that threatens global stability and challenges the team’s very definitions of loyalty and survival. Can Miranda’s and the team’s skills help them survive exposing the truth before the world unravels? 
    	(Can be read stand-alone or in series.) 
    	"Miranda is utterly compelling!" - Booklist, starred review 
    	“Escape Rating: A. Five Stars! OMG just start with Drone and be prepared for a fantastic binge-read!” -Reading Reality
    Show book
  • TANNER Series The - Books 1-3 - cover

    TANNER Series The - Books 1-3

    Remington Kane

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    The TANNER Series - Books 1-3 
     From REMINGTON KANE - The author of The TAKEN! Series  
    INEVITABLE I by REMINGTON KANE - A TANNER NOVEL Book 1 
    Hiring Tanner is the same as killing someone. 
    Once the assassin has a target he won’t stop until they’re dead. 
    Frank Richards thought Tanner was a robot he could turn on and off at will. 
    But Tanner has no off switch and lives by his own code. 
    When Richards changes his mind about having mobster Albert Rossetti hit, he orders Tanner to let Rossetti live. 
    Too late! 
    Rossetti is Tanner’s target, and nothing and no one will keep him from fulfilling his contract, not the FBI, not prison, nor the endless line of killers sent to stop him. 
    Tanner is coming, Tanner is deadly, and Tanner never fails. 
    KILL IN PLAIN SIGHT by REMINGTON KANE - A TANNER NOVEL - Book 2 
    Tanner Returns and the Conglomerate wants him dead. With their resources and vast troops of lethal thugs, the Conglomerate assumed that killing one man would be easy. 
    They were wrong! 
    While Tanner is just one man, he is the last man you want to go to war with, and when he teams up with another target of the Conglomerate, he doubles his chances at surviving. 
    But this is war, and the Conglomerate plays to win. Enter Lars Gruber, possibly the greatest assassin in the world, and now he's set his sights on Tanner. 
    It's hit man vs. hit man and only one can survive. 
    MAKING A KILLING ON WALL STREET by REMINGTON KANE - A TANNER NOVEL- Book 3 
    Tanner's war with the Conglomerate heats up. Conglomerate boss Frank Richards has plans to gain more power, while his former assistant, Al Trent, grows closer to learning the truth about Tanner's "Death." 
    Bonus: The first three chapters of Book 4 - THE FIRST ONE TO DIE LOSES
    Show book
  • Skeleton Man - A Leaphorn and Chee Novel - cover

    Skeleton Man - A Leaphorn and...

    Anonymous

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Don’t miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+!   
    “In his masterly reworking of this powerful myth, Hillerman creates a kachina for contemporary times. . . . No wonder Hillerman’s stories never grow old. Like myths, they keep evolving with the telling.”— New York Times Book Review 
    From the enduring ""national and literary cultural sensation"" (Los Angeles Times) Tony Hillerman, a crackling tale of myth, mystery, and murder featuring the legendary Leaphorn and Chee. 
    Though he may be retired, Navajo Tribal Police Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn hasn’t lost his curiosity or his edge. He’s eager to help Sergeant Jim Chee and his fiancée Bernie Manuelito with their latest case—clearing an innocent kid accused of robbing a trading post.  
    Billy Tuve claims he received the precious diamond from a strange old man in the canyon. Could it be one of the gems that went missing in an epic plane crash decades earlier? Now that it may have resurfaced, it’s attracted dangerous strangers to the Navajo lands.  
    Proving Billy’s innocence won’t be easy. Leaphorn, Chee, and Manuelito must find the remains of a passenger who died in the crash—one of 172 lost souls whose remains were scattered across the magnificent tiered cliffs of the Grand Canyon. 
    But nature may prove their deadliest adversary. To find the proof they need, the detectives must battle a thunderous monsoon and a killer as they plunge deeper into the dark realm of the Hopi Lord of Death—the guardian of the underworld known as Skeleton Man.
    Show book
  • Metal Spies - Shadowfast Heist Thriller 1 - cover

    Metal Spies - Shadowfast Heist...

    Cole Chase

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0
    Sure, it was crazy to turn a heavy metal band into a heist crew. Even crazier? Now it’s up to them to save the nation. 
    “When I came across the Shadowfast series, I found myself deliriously enjoying the fast-paced and witty trilogy packed with badass action and cool characters. …You simply are compelled to read all these books one after the other…. Epically fun.” –Best Thriller Books 
    Even when Quinn Richards masterminds successful cons with his metal band and heist crew, Shadowfast, he remains broke and dissatisfied. So he conceives a flashy heist to play in the big leagues. Instead, he gets played by the big leagues. Corrupt politicians blackmail Quinn into serving them. 
    Their intel shows that notorious tech billionaire Brody Bach plans an attack on the US. If Quinn doesn’t uncover what the attack is, and when, he and his team face prison for life. 
    An international whirlpool of counterplots, deception, and assassination drags him and his rag-tag team in over their heads. A technological threat draws the United States ever closer to Stone Age 2.0. In choosing his path, Quinn must decide whether he will remain a scoundrel—or turn into a reluctant good man. 
    Metal Spies kicks off a three-part story sure to delight fans of Mission: Impossible, Lee Goldberg, Jason Kasper, and Ocean's 11. Click now to rock out with your Glock out in Metal Spies!
    Show book