Daddy's Little Girl is the best book Clark has written in two years. Her work seems somehow more solid, the plotting more deft. The... ending is so unexpected and harrowing I just had to sit back and allow the story to run through my mind until I absorbed the depth of all I'd just read.

When Nicholas Spencer, the charismatic head of a company that has developed an anticancer vaccine, disappears without a trace, reporter Marcia "Carley" DeCarlo is assigned the story. Word that Spencer, if alive, has made off with huge sums of money--including the life savings of many employees--doesn"t do much to change Carley"s already low opinion of Spencer"s wife, Lynn, who is also Carley"s stepsister and whom everyone believes is involved. But when Lynn"s life is threatened, she asks Carley to help her prove that she wasn"t her husband"s accomplice. As the facts unfold, however, Carley herself becomes the target of a dangerous, sinister group that will stop at nothing to get what they want.

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