After reading The Serial Killer's Wife I had to read this one and thoroughly enjoyed it just as much, probably not as gripping but a thoroughly good read which held my interest throughout from the beginning until the end.

All the characters were good and interesting and what a fantastic ending, just can't stop thinking about it.

Thank you to Netgalley and Avon Books for this brilliant ARC which I have no hesitation in recommending.

4.5★s
The Serial Killer’s Daughter is the second novel by British author, Alice Hunter. When veterinarian Jenny Johnson wakes in the early hours of Wednesday morning on her kitchen floor, cold and dirty, her pyjamas stained with wet earth, mud embedded under her nails, she knows she has had another blackout, and wonders just what she has been doing out there. She manages to hide it from her family, although her husband, Mark knows something’s up.

More disturbing, though, is the black bin bag she spots near the front steps, containing the mutilated body of a cat, with an extra touch that has her immediately wondering who, from the life she’s tried so hard to leave behind, has found her.

After a busy day at her vet practice, Mark mentions the news that has rocked their village of Coleton Combe: Olivia Edwards is missing, believed abducted on her walk home from the local pub the previous evening.

He’s keeping to himself the worry that Jenny might be involved, because he has, once before, failed to contain her sleep-walking, and tracked her down to Olivia’s front garden, a rock in her hand. His affair with Olivia is still a sore point between them.

Between the police questioning everyone in the village, speculation and gossip amongst the school mums, villagers and clinic staff, and more bin bags with grisly contents, Jenny’s stress levels are sky high, a situation that results in more blackouts, more sleepwalking, more worry about what she might have done, especially when the situation begins to resemble something she has experienced before.

It gradually becomes clear that neither of Mark nor Jenny has been entirely honest about their past: Mark has failed to mention impulsive acts following excess alcohol intake; Jenny has refused to talk about her family, never mentioning her manipulative, controlling mother or her serial killer father.

Most of the story is told through a dual narrative carried by Mark and Jenny; additional facts are provided by recalled conversations between a father and daughter, and extracts from a true crime book and commentary from the anonymous author about interactions with the book’s subject.

The reader may initially wonder just how reliable a narrator Jenny is. Certainly, the second-guessing she engages in about her own actions has strong foundations, and her blackouts and nocturnal activity make her the ideal subject for gaslighting.

There are plenty of distractions, red herrings and lots of tension to keep the reader guessing and the pages turning right up to the nail-biting climax. The blurb is slightly misleading and the resolution needs some suspension of disbelief, but still an excellent crime thriller.
This unbiased review is from an uncorrected proof copy provided by NetGalley and Avon Books UK.

This is a book filled with twists and turns. Unpredictable and kept me on the edge of my seat until the very end!

Jenny is a local vet with a very dark secret...her father is a notorious serial killer! This was a great read that started off a bit slow but had a nice twist at the end. Definitely a binge-worthy book.

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. This book closely follows on the heels of The Serial Killers Wife. This story is more murder-focused and less psychological than the first but it more than makes up it in suspense. I read this in one sitting....it truly was unputdownable. Thank you NetGalley for the advanced readers copy for review.

DNF there should be some trigger or warning re animal abuse,I really cant stand reading about it and so when a book has it in it its a no no from me

Unfortunately, while I can get behind serial killing in a book I can't get behind animal abuse. I just don't want to read about that. This book needs a warning for those who don't want that in their heads either. Otherwise this is an okay, albeit dark, read.

would like to thank netgalley and the publisher for letting me read this enticing book

its the second book in this series but it can be read as a stand alone

jenny is a qualified vet living in a sleepy old devon village where nothing much happens...until

olivia is missing

she was abducted on a night out in the village, police are out questioning the whole village

but olivia has been having an affair with jens husband...
and jen has been having blackout and waking up in some strange places.....

could jen have abducted olivia
but what secrets is jens husband hiding....

and will jens biggest secret finally be revealed....

an interesting read.... with many red herrings galore... i found i routing for jen all the time when things were turning bad for her, brilliantly written

After reading the serial killers wife I couldn't wait to read this. I was nit disappointed. A great read, edge of your seat storyline. Amazing!

Having read the previous book The Serial Killers Wife I was delighted to be given the opportunity to read this new book by Alice Hunter and I wasn't disappointed .In a sleepy Devon Village a woman disappears,she had been having an affair with Jen's husband so is she now a suspect and will her secret past be discoverd ?This is a fast paced ,gripping and compelling thriller with plenty of twists and turns .I enjoyed this book and especially liked the ending and look forward to reading more in this series . .Thank you to NetGalley for my ARC.

This book was very meh. Not my favorite but not the least favorite. Hoping my next read is superior. I’d possibly feel differently if I read the first book. I’m appreciative of the free ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I never repeat the blurb. Great second book by the author, unrelated to the first but in the same theme. Keeps you guessing until (almost) the end. A little more signposting when the narrator changes but is not Jenny or Mark.

Maybe “Take Your Daughter to Work Day” wasn’t the best idea for Paul Slater the serial killer. Did he think exposing her to his line of work would not affect his child?  The  convictions of his crimes left his little girl with a controlling (as in never leave my side) mother and resulted in Jen (nee Jane) escaping as a teenager from her mom with out a trace, or so she hoped. She may have left and made new life but she can not escape the blackouts as a result of PTSD.
   The blackouts and lack of recall find her in the midst of suspects in a murder in spite her good standing as a conscientious mom, wife, and vet in her community. The victim, a young lady her husband had an affair with, puts her front and center on the police radar: she was seen in the victim’s yard in her pajamas…or was she?
   While the reader may have idea of the outcome? You're wrong. The expected finale was a real twist.
   A scary look onto the development of a serial killer. Does the apple fall far from the tree?????

The Serial Killer’s Daughter is a well written yet unbelievable thriller. Jenny’s night tremors are too far-fetched to seem realistic. Her half sister trying to frame her because she envied her life also left me way out in fiction land.

I enjoyed that the reader doesn’t know who is visiting with Jenny’s father in prison, this remained a surprise throughout. A great story idea that needed a bit more grounding in the finer details.

This is the follow up to the highly successful novel The Serial Killers Wife and is a deeply dark and disturbing psychological thriller, told entirely from the POV’s of Jenny and her husband Mark. If you read the previous book, and I recommend you do, you will know that Jenny’s father is a convicted serial killer. Well written and another page turner that was well paced throughout.

Briefly, Jenny is a veterinarian and has changed her name and moved home. Now married, even her husband Mark knows nothing about her history. Subject to blackouts and sleepwalking Jenny starts finding dead animals outside her house but when a woman Mark had had a fling with goes missing she is worried. Has she started to repeat what her father did? Should she tell Mark about her past?

This is a really well put together book delving into the psychological effects of a bad childhood combined with the current stress for Jenny of not knowing if she is guilty or not. Full of twists and turns and an unexpected ending with a shocking twist. A very enjoyable read that kept me in suspense until the end. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Thank you to the author, publisher and NetGalley for providing an ARC of this book.

I didn’t enjoy this one as much as The Serial Killer’s Wife. Mark was just awful and there were lots of things hinted at that could have been explored further like Brett and the history there.

As a true crime junkie, it's always fascinated me to hear about the families of serial killers. Living that close to a killer who probably appeared fairly normal is terrifying. Alice Hunter's book follows the daughter of a convicted serial killer who has tried to escape her past. That's hard to do when a woman goes missing and clues start popping up that seem too close to her father's earlier methods. Does evil run in the blood? Or is it just a coincidence?

I thought this book was a fast-paced read that kept me engaged until the very end. I kept thinking I could guess what would happen, but there are so many great plausible suspects that I had to stay up all night to finish. The story mostly alternates between, Jenny, and her husband, Mark. I really enjoyed Jenny as a character but didn't feel very drawn to Mark and disagreed with a lot of his decisions. I did think Jenny could be awkward talking to others (especially the one-dimensional group of moms), but that could be done purposefully considering her strange upbringing and past. Socializing probably isn't easy when you grew up with a controlling mother and imprisoned father.

If you like a crime mystery I would definitely recommend it. Trigger warning if you're disturbed by mutilated dead animals, but the storyline is more suspenseful than gory. I received this book as an ARC from Netgalley.

I thought this book was pretty good, but my memory of the first book is that I enjoyed it more. But this was certainly an okay read, and I wouldn't put anyone off reading it. I think it is not as memorable but maybe that is because I really liked the first book.

I've not read "The Serial Killer's Wife" but I've been told the two books in The Serial Killer's Family series are standalones. "The Serial Killer's Daughter" was intriguing and the pacing was great in the first half, I think, and the character development of the main character was great. The books alternates between Jenny and her husband's POV, which I found interesting but I honestly didn't like him as a person. I gasped at chapter 7, and a few times more whenever something was revealed but I fear my guessing a few plot points and a few unresolved questions made the story a tad less enjoyable eventually. I might read the previous installment though, because I was still fairly entertained.

I absolutely loved The Serial Killer's Wife and I went into this thinking this was a follow on. Wrong! But it was a fabulous all the same. The Seial Killer's Daughter may be a standalone, but it had the same twisty pacy plot, and twists to make you gasp. Another five star read from Alice Hunter.