The Hunter's Daughter
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- $16.99
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- $16.99
Publisher Description
A hypnotic, sinister debut mystery about a seemingly good cop who is secretly the daughter of a notorious serial killer.
Anna Koray escaped her father’s darkness long ago. When she was a girl, her childhood memories were sealed away from her conscious mind by a controversial hypnosis treatment. She’s now a decorated sheriff’s lieutenant serving a rural county, conducting an ordinary life far from her father’s shadow.
When Anna kills a man in the line of duty, her suppressed memories return. She dreams of her beloved father, his hands red with blood, surrounded by flower-decked corpses he had sacrificed to the god of the forest.
To Anna’s horror, a serial killer emerges who is copying her father – and who knows who she really is. Is her father still alive, or is this the work of another? Will the killer expose her, destroying everything she has built for herself? Does she want him to?
But as she haunts the forest, using her father’s tricks to the hunt the killer, will she find what she needs most…or lose herself in the gathering darkness?
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Criminologist Solvinic debuts with a propulsive thriller about a young detective's harrowing family history. Anna Kory, a lieutenant with a rural Midwestern sheriff's department, is a good cop—empathetic and efficient. One night, she's called to a domestic disturbance, where she's shot and wounded by a wild-eyed man. Anna fires back, killing him. The incident awakens long-repressed memories from her childhood: Anna's father, Stephen, was the "Forest Strangler," a serial killer who kidnapped young women and ritualistically killed them as offerings to the "Forest God." After he was arrested, a nine-year-old Anna was adopted by a family in a different state and her memories were erased via hypnosis. Not long after the adult Anna is released from the hospital following the shooting, a young woman is found dead with her body arranged in a manner that echoes the Forest Strangler's slayings. As Anna investigates, she starts receiving disturbing anonymous emails that raise a terrifying question: Is the young woman's murder the work of a copycat, or has her father returned? Solvinic is remarkably assured for a first-timer, lacing the action with elegant descriptions of the rural landscape and enough valid suspects to keep the pot boiling. Readers will look forward to this promising suspense author's next outing.