Daddy's Little Secret: A Daughter's Quest to Solve Her Father's Brutal Murder
Written by: Denise Wallace
Narrated by: Sara Morsey
Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Release Date:11-03-16
Publisher: WildBlue Press
My first love has always been true crime when I saw this on
audio I had to have it. The author show the hard struggle of thinking she knew
her father only to find out she didn’t know him as well as she thought, her painful
memories of her childhood and her love of her father. Her fight for justices as
well as her fight for the truth along with her fairness for the events that
happened and the man who killed him is easily shown in these pages. I really wanted to not like the killer but I
found my heart softened a little for him. I also found I really liked her
father even though he used addiction of others to get what he wanted he was
still a very likable man. As with most murders there are truly no winners here
only a sad lonely man who has found a way to get what he needs and wants
through using young men and the young man who would do anything to get the
money he needed. Let’s not forget the daughter who so dearly loved her father
that he was truly her hero and in many ways will always be, finds shocking
things she never dreamed of. The author will take you through her younger
years, teen and her older years trying to understand a man who is driven by
lust.
Some might think the killer deserved what he got or he
should have gotten more or that the victim got what he had coming to him due to
how he found young men and used their needs against them. What I found
was a man still trapped in the 50’s and not knowing how to handle what people
would think of him. Driven by his alternative lifestyle and finding away to get
what he wants without paying for it or having a relationship where he might be
judged. I also found a young man for whatever reason trapped in his addiction
for drugs doing whatever he had to, to get them.
The narration of Ms. Morsey was very good her character voices
were nice she put real emotion into the story. I did think some of her voices
were close to others but you still knew who was talking and what they were
feeling. I found no background noises or any places where the audio was higher
or lower in volume than any other place in the audio. If breaks were taken you
could not tell. The audio was clean, clear and crisp told in a way you could
feel the pain, shock, uneasiness and sorrow of each character. Her male voices
were as nice as her female ones giving you a nice listen. The narrator pulls
you in waiting to see what happens next. I really had trouble putting this down
I really wanted to understand the characters and what drove them. I felt the
narrator was able to do this as well as she was able with the facts she was
given.
I thought this was well written giving both side as it keeps
you informed as the author gives you the full impact of each character. This
was not bias but gives the story from all sides. All the facts are there written in a style
that is clear and pretty clean. The murder scene is there but doesn’t go into a
lot of detail but at the same time gives you all you need to know to paint the
picture in your mind. There is no doubt the author was daddy’s little girl and
she loved him dearly. The pain and confusion she had to go through not only to
find his killer but to see the man he really was is shown and felt by the
reader. Her father was very complex and I felt she wrote it from a stand point of
trying to understand him, who he truly was and what he became but still able to
show how much she loved him and would miss him along with her confusion of the
events around her. I do not mean that in a bad way but in the way
he used the addiction to get his pleasure when he most likely could have found
young men who would have gladly have given him what he wanted. I would have
liked to have known the man better and why he didn’t just find someone to have
a relationship with but that will be forever locked in his mind. I felt the
author filled in all the blanks as best she could since she could not talk with
her father to understand what he was going through.
This was a touching heartbreaking read from all areas. It
was a story I could not turn off I wanted to try to understand the man who was
daddy’s little girl and the effect it had on the author. If you enjoy true
crime this is well worth the listen. It will be an audio I will most likely
listen to again.
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Summary
Daddy's Little Secret: A Daughter's Quest to Solve Her Father's Brutal
Murder is a poignant true crime story about a daughter who, upon her
father's murder, learns of his alternative lifestyle. She had looked the other
way about other secrets of his as well - deadly secrets that could help his
killer escape the death penalty, should she come forward. An inside look at the
complex and fascinating psyche of a father who shared an uncommon bond with his
daughter. She had spent years hiding deadly secrets about her enigmatic father, Wesley Wallace. Wes was a trusted security guard at the Ritz-Carlton Palm Beach. He was supposed to protect those who found themselves in his care. But a closer look into his brutal murder revealed a split personality - one that his daughter may have seen but tried to ignore. However, detectives assigned to the case persuaded her to assist them in the capture of her father's killer. The trail would lead from the glitz of Palm Beach to the murky streets of Dixie Highway and end in a courtroom where her father's secret life, and his dangerous penchant for sex slaves, would be revealed.
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