Review of Dear Daughter by Elizabeth Little

I just finished reading Dear Daughter, by Elizabeth Little as a group read for a group I am part of in Good Reads.  It is not a book I would have picked up myself, so I am glad that our moderator picked this one.  Below is my review.

I would give it 3.5 stars if I could. Jane murders her mother in cold blood, is found guilty, goes to jail for 10 years, then gets the case overturned due to errors at the crime lab and gets released.  The fact that she is an heiress complicates her release and she goes into hiding.  Because she does not remember the night her mother was killed, she was drunk and/or on drugs,  she is not sure if she did it or not.  Jane disguises herself and changes her name to Rebecca and sets out to find answers.  Did I kill my mother or was it the person I heard arguing with her a few days earlier?  What does the name Ardelle or Adeline mean? With the help of her lawyer, Noah, Jane is able to travel by train to find this mysterious town and meet up with some likeable and not so likeable characters. Jane is not really a likeable character, but after what she has gone through and how she was raised, it is easy to see how she turned out the way she did.  An enjoyable read, that gets better as you go on.  Be prepared for a not so predictable ending.