The Marsh Kings Daughter, Karen Dionne
The Marsh Kings Daughter, Karen Dionne
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The Marsh King's Daughter

Author: Karen Dionne

Narrator: Emily Rankin

Unabridged: 9 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 06/13/2017


Synopsis

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER—NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!

“Brilliant....About as good as a thriller can be.”—The New York Times Book Review

The Marsh King’s Daughter is the mesmerizing tale of a woman who must risk everything to hunt down the dangerous man who shaped her past and threatens to steal her future: her own father.
 
Helena Pelletier has a loving husband, two beautiful daughters, and a business that fills her days. But she also has a secret: she is the product of an abduction. Her mother was kidnapped as a teenager by her father and kept in a remote cabin in the marshlands of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Helena, born two years after the abduction, loved her home in nature, and despite her father’s sometimes brutal behavior, she loved him, too...until she learned precisely how savage he could be.

More than twenty years later, she has buried her past so soundly that even her husband doesn’t know the truth. But now her father has killed two guards, escaped from prison, and disappeared into the marsh. The police begin a manhunt, but Helena knows they don’t stand a chance. Knows that only one person has the skills to find the survivalist the world calls the Marsh King—because only one person was ever trained by him: his daughter.

“[A] nail-biter perfect for Room fans.”—Cosmopolitan

“Sensationally good psychological suspense.”—Lee Child

A Michigan Notable Book!

About The Author

Karen Dionne is the USA Today and #1 internationally bestselling author of the award-winning psychological suspense novel The Marsh King’s Daughter and The Wicked Sister, both published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons in the U.S. and in dozens of other countries. The Marsh King’s Daughter movie starring Daisy Ridley and Ben Mendelsohn released by Lionsgate in 2023. Karen enjoys nature photography and lives with her husband on a small lake surrounded by forest in the middle of Michigan.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Deanna on May 01, 2017

My reviews can also be seen at: [URL not allowed] I came across this book a few months ago. I knew it wasn't going to be released until June but I couldn't wait to read it. Once I started reading I didn't want to stop. The narrator tells us that her mother was famous for things......more

Goodreads review by Mary Beth on April 21, 2019

What I liked about the book? I found this book to be unputdownable! It was dark and disturbing. I loved it. I was hooked from the very beginning and straight to the end. I didn't find this to be an edge of your seat thriller. It consisted of Helena's life in her past, being raised in captivity with h......more

Goodreads review by Lindsay L on June 26, 2017

5 stars! Wow - I’m still trying to catch my breath and slow my racing heart after finishing this fantastic book. This book was SOOOOO GOOD! It was a fast paced, heart pounding, edge-of-my-seat, nail biting, suspenseful thriller. I was completely engrossed in the story from page one and addicted to f......more

Goodreads review by Susanne on August 30, 2017

5 Stars. Truly Captivating (for Helena, and Me). “The Marsh King’s Daughter” hooks you from first few sentences: “I was born two years into my Mother’s captivity. She was three weeks shy of seventeen. If I had known then, what I do now, things would have been a lot different. I wouldn’t have adored m......more

Goodreads review by Canadian Jen on July 01, 2017

You know a story gets under your skin when you wake up in the middle of the night thinking about it. This is a psychological thriller that has the added thrill of a spin on a classic fairy tale. The premise is disturbing. Helena is the daughter of a man whom abducted her mom, who was incarcerated for......more


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Praise for The Marsh King's Daughter

“What Karen did with the book is incredible.” – Daisy Ridley, via The Art of Survival: Making The Marsh King's Daughter

“Spine-tingling.”—People 

“This gorgeously written eerie suspense novel gave me chills as it raced toward an unexpected climax. I loved it!”—Karin Slaughter, author of Pretty Girls

“Troubling, sinuous and powerfully told, you won’t be able to stop turning the pages.”—Megan Abbott, author of You Will Know Me

“Dionne’s breathtaking psychological thriller is a fairy tale writ large...the suspense in the plotting and the cold distance Helena’s voice projects [hold readers] entranced until the stunning climax.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune

“Exceptional...Helena’s conflicting emotions about her father and her own identity elevate this powerful story.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“If you only read one thriller this year, make it The Marsh King’s Daughter. Its sensational.”—Clare Mackintosh, author of I Let You Go

“A masterpiece of crisp prose and fine storytelling.”—Sara Gruen, author of Water for Elephants and At the Water's Edge
 
“[A] well-crafted, eerie, and unnerving psychological thriller. With a strong setting and swift pacing, this novel is recommended for readers who enjoyed Emma Donoghue’s Room and Travis Mulhauser’s Sweetgirl.”—Library Journal
 
“[W]ill keep readers gripped until the end...For fans of Emma Donoghue’s Room and of novels with strong female leads.”—Booklist

“Expertly written, gripping, compulsively readable.”—Melanie Benjamin, author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue 

“Eerie and breathtaking, terrific and terrifying in the best possible way. Dionne holds you under her spell from the first word to the last—and then some.”—Tea Obreht, author of The Tiger’s Wife

“First‐rate plotting builds the tension with psychological suspense and action sequences….The story is at once both horrific and fascinating.”—RT Book Reviews

“Totally compelling and different from anything I can remember reading before.”—Peter Lovesey

“Don’t think you know how this plays out, just hand the reins to Dionne, who is completely in control of this unexpected narrative, and of your pounding heart.”—Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of The Deep End of the Ocean
 
“I don’t use the word ‘brilliant’ often, but no other adjective feels adequate...It’s an understatement to say that The Marsh King’s Daughter is an exceptional achievement.”—David Morrell, author of Murder as a Fine Art; creator of the iconic character Rambo
 
“Everything I could ask for in a psychological thriller: a stunningly fresh and confident voice, gorgeous writing, originality, and a complex protagonist I could really root for. I wish it were possible to read a book for the first time more than once.”—Carla Buckley, author of The Deepest Secret