The Serial Killers Daughter by Alice Hunter Book Review

Welcome to my review of The Serial Killers Daughter by Alice Hunter. Having read and enjoyed the Serial Killers Wife I couldn’t wait to get to this one. Like the serial killer’s wife, the serial killer’s daughter was a little slow and underwhelming but still a good read.

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Synopsis

Is murder in the blood?

In a sleepy Devon village, a woman is taken from the streets. Local vet Jenny is horrified. This kind of thing doesn’t happen here.

But it’s not the first time she’s been so close to a crime scene. The daughter of a prolific serial killer, she’s spent her whole life running from who she really is.

And the crime is harrowingly similar to those her father committed all those years ago…

But she’s not her father’s daughter.

Is she?

About The Author

After completing a psychology degree, Alice Hunter became an interventions facilitator in a prison. There, she was part of a team offering rehabilitation programmes to men serving sentences for a wide range of offences, often working with prisoners who’d committed serious violent crimes. Previously, Alice had been a nurse, working in the NHS. She now puts her experiences to good use in fiction. THE SERIAL KILLER’S WIFE draws heavily on her knowledge of psychology and the criminal mind.

My Review

Paul Slater is a serial killer named the Painted Lady Killer, she is his daughter, once named Jane and named now Jenny. Jenny is having some issues, suffering from nightmares and sleepwalking, often taking her outside the house and having blackouts. Her husband Mark is oblivious to her background but knows something isn’t right. In addition, a local woman, Olivia, goes missing in the middle of the night… Mark once had an affair with Olivia and Jenny knows but did either of them have anything to do with Olivia going missing?

This has a good plot and is a great idea but is a little slow, even dragging in some places, and was a little underwhelming. I enjoyed the alternating point of view between Jenny and Mark, which works well. The opening chapter draws you in brilliantly as well. Both Jenny and Mark are hiding significant things, added to the extracts from Paul Slater’s story brings an extra element which will give you plenty of questions as well as the chills.

Some points feel overexplained, scenes build but then drop too suddenly or without much impact. There are diversions that don’t add much to the plot and with the slow pace, it’s not as climatic as it could be. That said, its not a bad book by any means, I liked it and enjoyed reading it but it didn’t have that special touch to make it really wow.

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