The Perfect Daughter by D.J. Palmer

Grace never dreamt she’d visit her teenage daughter Penny in the locked ward of a decaying state psychiatric hospital, charged with the murder of a stranger. There was not much question of her daughter’s guilt. Police had her fingerprints on the murder weapon and the victim’s blood on her body and clothes. But they didn’t have a motive. Grace blames herself because that’s what mothers do—they look at their choices and wonder, what if? But hindsight offers little more than the chance for regret… Read more.
Trigger & Content Warnings
- Daughter with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
- Blood depiction
- Murder