Pretty Little Girl (A Liz Roberts Mystery, #1)

For 20 years, from age 13 until after she married, Laura cared for her father. That's because her psychopathic mother, on several occasions attempted to kill Laura with a butcher knife. Laura decides this could not continue and that she must live her own life. So she abandons her Alzheimer's disease-afflicted father at a county fair, without any ID--just a slip of paper that says "My name is Larry."

Detective Liz Roberts, who also was abandoned by her birth mother, is assigned to the case, a...