My Review: I loved, loved, loved this book. This was by far the best book I read all year. I never read anything by this author before but I’m sure glad I did. The blurb and cover really caught my eye and I knew I had to read it. I will be reading more of this authors books in the future. I want to start off by saying that I enjoyed reading this book so much. It dealt with subject matter that I find so interesting, the human mind. The way people think and why they do what they do has always been an interest to me. This book dealt with a teenager who supposedly committed a murder and who also had multiple personalities. Her lawyer wanted to show that it was one of her personalities that did the killing. I have never read a book that has dealt with this subject that was so in depth before. This author really did his homework and I learned so much about people who have multiple personalities. Along with the psychological aspect of this book there was also a mystery to be solved. The mystery was not the main focus of the book but it was definitely a shocker to find out what happened a why someone was killed. This book was like a roller coaster ride that I never wanted to end. It had so many twists in the end that I thought I would get whiplash. This book was wrapped up so nice and tight in the end that I didn’t have any questions that was left unanswered. What a great, amazing, awesome, thrilling, book this was. Between the plot, characters and all the twists in this book it made it an easy and fast read. I would definitely recommend it and happily give it 5 Hearts❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Wow! Be prepared to be knocked out of your seat with this one! The Perfect Daughter had me fascinated from start to finish. DJ Palmer puts the thrill in thriller!

The Perfect Daughter an addictive psychological thriller by DJ Palmer that dives into the world of mental health and its stigmas eloquently. Penny a fragile teenager diagnosed with Disassociative Identity Disorder, is charged with the brutal killing of her biological mother. In what appears on the surface as a slam dunk case dissolves into multilayered story revealing the multiple personalities living inside Penny - Chloe, Eve and Ruby. Her adoptive family is in a fight for her innocence amidst the constraints of the legal system that believes she’s guilty and the psychiatric facility Penny is residing awaiting trial. Aid by a determined doctor, struggling himself with mental health issues, they uncover the dark secrets Penny has buried deeply in order to survive the threats from her past. The ending was brilliantly executed, plausible and until the reveal I didn’t see it coming. The Perfect Daughter is riveting, edgy entertaining read. Thank you NetGalley and St. Martin’s Press for an ARC for an honest review.

The Perfect Daughter is the third book I have read from D.J. Palmer, and like the first two, I was immediately drawn into this complex story and glued to the pages. I was fascinated with the concept that a young girl committed a murder but had no recollection of it because she suffers from multiple personality disorder. I remember watching Sybil, with Sally Fields a long time ago and more recently Split with James McAvoy, and was just so intrigued with how a person's mind could splinter into multiple personalities. Mr. Palmer does an incredible job of delving into how the human psyche protects itself in people who have D.I.D. by creating distinct personalities to deal with different scenarios that someone deals with in their lives. Penny had dealt with a lot, having been abandoned in a park when she was just four years old. Grace Francone finds her alone and scared, and thus starts the journey of how Penny became a member of the Francone family who adopted her and made her one of them. From the outside, it looked like all the evidence was stacked against Penny: found at the murder scene covered in blood and holding the murder weapon. But she doesn't remember any of it, so was she truly innocent, or did one of her alters commit the crime and she just doesn't remember it? Told mostly in the third person, Mr. Palmer leads the reader on a highly complex, edge of your seat journey to find out what really happened that fateful night. With the help of Dr. Mitch McHugh, Grace Francone is determined to move heaven and earth to prove that her daughter is innocent, and was just in the wrong place at the wrong time. But proving that in court is going to be almost impossible, especially when it is SO difficult to prove the D.I.D. diagnosis. I have to admit, I was leaning in a specific direction all the way until the very end. I really love the use of an unreliable narrator in stories, and although this book is told in the third person and we aren't hearing directly from Penny, she really is an unreliable narrator in that we see each of her alters appear at critical points in time, and each one offers something that, depending on how you look at it, makes the story that much more complicated, or they could be pointing at something that's right in front of our faces and we're too stuck on other details to see it. That highly explosive ending really threw me for a loop!! I did not see that coming! Bravo, Mr. Palmer, for keeping me focused on other details and sneaking that bombshell in there! What a ride this was!!

The Perfect Daughter by D. J. Palmer is a fascinating psychological thriller that tells the story of Penny Francone, a sixteen-year-old girl charged with murder after police found her holding the murder weapon next to the body. I love that the story primarily focused on Penny's mom, Grace, and her determination to advocate for her daughter, who was previously diagnosed with D.I.D., aka Multiple Personality Disorder, instead of placing the reader in the mind of Penny, which would have been confusing at best. Grace is relatable in her focus and unrelenting pursuit to prove that her daughter did not commit the crime. This kicks off the family theme that can also be seen with Penny's psychologist, Dr. Mitch McHugh, and his son Ryan, who is in a rehab facility. Even though McHugh treats other people's children successfully, he is as helpless as any other parent when it comes to his child. Through these two intertwined stories, unconditional parental love rings loud and clear. It is an uplifting note in an otherwise twisty turny tale with a jaw-dropping conclusion that I never saw coming. The thriller plot left me breathless, and I felt compelled to read every word of the story with an unprecedented focus. Penny's brother, Jack, has 1st-person narrated chapters interspersed throughout the story, which partly discussed the documentary he was making about his sister and partly read like letters to Penny as she went through this ordeal. Jack is my favorite character throughout, primarily because of his unwavering support and his foresight to find out and talk more about this controversial mental health disorder that his sister suffers. This gave a docudrama slant to the story, which I found intriguing. I love the way mental health disorders are treated in this book. Both sides explained, the diagnosis process shown, and the struggles portrayed so realistically that if not for the mystery plot, I would think that I was reading a case study. This is a must-read book if you are interested in abnormal psychology or are looking for a compelling psychological thriller to escape for a weekend. Pick it up, read it, pick your jaw off the floor when you're done and have a new appreciation for parents with children who suffer from mental health disorders.