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"[Maynard] weav(es) a knotty tale of family secrets, told in the alternating voices of her likable main characters."--Entertainment Weekly on THE GOOD DAUGHTERS

""The Good Daughters" shows Maynard's strengths once again--particularly in vivid descriptions of farm life, geographies, and relationships of all kinds. Passions and psychological changes in a character over time ring most true."--Providence Journal

"Absorbing."--More Magazine on THE GOOD DAUGHTERS

"An evocative story . . . [Maynard] consistently brings emotional authenticity to the long arc of her characters' lives and to the joy and loss they experience. A profoundly moving chronicle of the primacy of family connection."--Booklist on THE GOOD DAUGHTERS

"An impressive writer...with a fine sense of time, of place, of humor."--Buffalo News on THE GOOD DAUGHTERS

"Exquisite . . . . [A] beautifully written book."--Publishers Weekly (starred review) on THE GOOD DAUGTHERS

"In addition to being a beautiful and engaging story, Maynard deftly captures Dana's struggle to come to terms with her sexuality in the midst of her family's instability. And her relationship with Clarice is one of the strongest in the novel. Highly recommended. "--AfterEllen.com on THE GOOD DAUGHTERS

"Maynard is a clever storyteller."--Seattle Times on THE GOOD DAUGHTERS

"Maynard's spare prose packs a rich emotional punch...a can't put-it-down mystery."--People on THE GOOD DAUGHTERS

"Vividly rendered."--Tampa Tribune on THE GOOD DAUGHTERS

Thirty years after destroying her detective father's career and altering the lives of everyone she loves, Rachel, who has never given up hope of vindicating her father, finally finds The Sunset Strangler, a killer who, in the summer of 1979, preyed on young women in northern California. 75,000 first printing.