[.ca] Daddy's Little Girl (ISBN 0743460529)

Daddy's Little Girl:
When she was only seven years old, Ellie Cavanaugh's fifteen-year-old beautiful high school student sister, Andrea, was viciously murdered, her head violently smashed in by a cold-blooded killer, and Ellie was the one that first found Andrea's body in the garage of old Mrs. Dorothy Westerfield, a powerful and enormously rich woman coming from a socially prominent family in the city of Oldham-on-the-Hudson, New York. Ellie had heard heavy, uneven breathing, and then a high-pitched giggle while in the garage, and swears it was Rob Westerfield, Dorothy's nineteen-year-old grandson and Andrea's secret boyfriend, in the garage with her. It was Ellie's tearful, heartbreaking testimony that convicted Rob Westerfield for the murder of Andrea Cavanaugh. But even with the murderer behind bars, Ellie's family is still torn apart. Her parents divorce, and Ellie's mother travels with her all over the country, hardly staying in one place for more than a year. Meanwhile, Ellie's father remarries and has a son, Teddy, five years later. Twenty-two years later, after Ellie's mother has died, Ellie moves out to Atlanta, Georgia, and becomes an investigative reporter for the Atlanta News. She contemplates her resentment and distance from her father, and has no desire to see him---or his new wife or Teddy---ever again. After twenty two years in prison, Rob Westerfield has served his sentence for murdering Andrea in prison, and parole is inevitable. Rob had been up for parole two previous times, but Ellie vehemently went against it. But finally, Ellie realizes that no matter what she does, Rob will be released. In an effort to put Rob back in jail, Ellie travels back up to Oldham, and she begins writing a book focusing on Rob's guilt in murdering Andrea. She has also opened a website, which has made the Westerfields---who just happened to find a new witness to say Paulie Stroebel, a former classmate of Andrea's that had a terrible crush on her---extremely angry. Rob has newly been released from prison, and as Ellie sifts trough his past, from his days of being withdrawn from preparatory schools, to his days in prison when he may have confessed to another murder, the danger that Ellie is in grows higher by the second, as attempts to take Ellie's life and publicly dehumanize her rapidly occur. Ellie knows that if she can not find a way to have Rob sentenced back into prison for the rest of his life, then sooner or later the Westerfields will have Ellie murdered, just to simply shut her up. Mary Higgins Clark, "The Queen of Suspense," one of my new all-time favorite authors, has written a great thriller novel. This novel is slightly different from Mary Higgins Clark's others literary works because it is written in first person, a rarity for this author. I found that the first-person made Ellie's story more personal and more believable. Ellie was an amazing, witty, intelligent, and immensely likable protagonist, one of the most well-drawn main characters that Mary Higgins Clark has ever dreamed up. The plot moves smoothly, the characters are deep, and the danger is vividly real; this is one of my favorite by Mary Higgins Clark, and definitely one of her greatest suspense novels ever. Highly recommended!

14 year olds review:
I think this book was awsome and once i started readin it i couldn't put it down it's awsome and i'm going to buy all her other books. I think it was really sad what happend to Ellie's sister and I though that she should have been close with her father even though what happend becasue some of us don't always have a good father even though if it's just fiction. I started to think the rob was inoccent and that Paulie was the murder and then i would switch back and forth with my descision but then i got to finish it with in a week of reading it non stop and i absolutly loved it.

MURDERER and MURDERED:
Ellie Cavenaugh lived in a family of four until she was 7 years old. At age 15 her sister, Andrea, was brutally murdered. Ellie was the one to find her in the back of a garage. When Ellie testifies in court, she is the one to convict Rob Westerfeild. At the time of the murder, he was Andrea's boyfriend. Some people doubt little Ellie and believe Rob's innocent pleads. Was he wrongly convicted? Twenty-three years later, Westerfeild is let out of jail. Ellie, horrified, goes back home to get Westerfeild back in jail. While digging up dirt on Rob she discovers some amazing new ideas. Ellie is writing a website with slamming details on Rob. Now someone is after her! Who is the murderer? This book is very suspensful and pulls you in to the point where you think you are there. Mary Higgens Clark does a great job of adding new facts that had never been found in the first trials. The plot of the hometown rural area adds to the whole mysterious outlook of the book and makes it very interesting. A good beginning, middle and end, so you won't put this book down until the very last word.

Keeps you reading to the end:
Ellie Cavanaugh was seven years old when her older sister Andrea was murdered one night. This event caused the Cavanaugh family to fall apart. Of the three suspects, Rob Westerfield was the one found guilty and put in prison for twenty-two years. When he got out of prison, Ellie was determined get him back in prison and therefore she investigated the murder very closely and wrote a book about it. She found out some things that people didn't want her to know. During that process, she risked her life because the house she was living in was broken into and set on fire. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone looking for a good read. I don't usually like reading books, but this book kept my interest until the very last word and made me want to keep reading more. Mary Higgins Clark does a nice job of making you question things throughout the whole book through her mystery and suspense. She gives the main character good qualities such as drive and motivation to do what is right and also insight on the mind of a killer. In my opinion, after reading this book, Mary Higgins Clark definitely fits the title of "Queen of Suspense."

Daddy's Little Girl:
This book is suspenseful gripping and makes you want to read more and more you won't want to put it down when you start reading it. It goes from the sad death of Ellie's 15 year old sister Andrea to Ellie her little sisters investigation and her ultimately trying to find her sisters murder and uncover the truth about Rob Westerfeild and safe her own life, well she's at it she's trying to avoiding her father and her younger brother Teddy. I would recommend this book to any teenager and older. I loved this book. Mary Higgins Clarke knows how to keep her readers entertained and coming back for more and more. I give this book five stars. From one of your new number one fans good jog Marry keep the books coming you are awesome author.