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Someone elses daughter is a great story with plenty of angst and darkness. But when the san francisco police department was court ordered to hire women, she found herself compelled to prove to the world that women could cut it as cops, a betrayal that caused her policeloathing mother to brand her a nazi. Karen lynch was an unlikely person to become one of the first female cops in san francisco. Good cop, bad daughtera memoir by karen lynch home. A tone of bitter disillusionment dominates the book, which combines. While memoir is not my genre of choice, i was propelled to this book by a. More to the point, the good daughter is karin slaughter s most ambitious, most emotional, and best novel. Recounting the story of the first women cops, she reflects on life with her bipolar mother, and comes to realize her chaotic past unwittingly provided the perfect foundation for her chosen career. Theres a bevvy of things going on in the storyline with murder and domestic abuse, but theres also an emphasis on the developing relationship between the pi parker and miranda who have absolutely nothing in common. This memoir is a non stop window into a world of strength, determinations, wiles, courage, brains and resilience. Her memoir, good cop, bad daughter, is the story of how growing up with a bipolar mother trained karen to be a cop.