Skillfully weaving together domestic suspense, a desperate police investigation, a love affair, and a serial killer on the loose, acclaimed author T. M. Dunn's Her Father's Daughter makes for a raw, edgy, and hard-hitting hero's journey into a family's twisted secrets, perfect for fans of Oyinkan Braithwaite and Karen Dionne.
Twenty-five-year-old Linda Donovan has spent her life working for her father, Anthony, at Donovan and Daughter Exterminators in New York City. On the anniversary of her mother's death, her father makes his annual visit to his late wife's grave while Linda heads to a Park Avenue apartment building to work solo.
When she arrives, she finds the body of an elderly resident, partially eaten by rats. The gruesome death not only speaks poorly of the Donovans' exterminating services--it also points to foul play. When the cops show up, they demand to speak to Linda's father. But despite her efforts to contact him, Anthony has gone off the radar.
As he evades a possible murder charge, Linda's father records in five notebooks--and five damning acts--the story of how he met and fell in love with her mother, a previously untold history of familial abuse, tormented souls, and true love gone terribly wrong.
Wydawnictwo: inne
Data wydania: 2023-07-18
Kategoria: Kryminał, sensacja, thriller
ISBN:
Liczba stron: 272
Tytuł oryginału: Her father's daughter
Język oryginału: angielski
Przeczytane:2023-01-28, Ocena: 5, Przeczytałam, Insta challenge. Wyzwanie dla bookstagramerów 2023, 2023, 12 książek 2023, 26 książek 2023, 52 książki 2023, Wyzwanie - wybrana przez siebie liczba książek w 2023 roku, Przeczytaj tyle, ile masz wzrostu – edycja 2023, NetGalley 2023,
"Her Father's Daughter" is a shocking psychological thriller. Nothing will be the same after reading it. I wonder about one thing: what makes a person a sociopath and kills others in cold blood? Could the mother of one of the main characters save her son? Why did he follow in his father's footsteps? I liked the main character. She had a difficult childhood as her mother killed herself three days after she was born. The girl's father of 25 years relives it on the anniversary of his wife's death. Does he drag his daughter into his despair? Why does he do this? Will he let his daughter go to college? Everything changes when the body of an old woman is found. It was a terrible sight. Will our Linda recover from this? I felt sorry for our heroine's father. What he wrote to her in 5 acts made me want to throw up. I still have shivers now. I hope this book is just fiction. I liked the book moderately. Reading the descriptions of what was going on in the life of Linda's father I got a little bored. I liked the lyrics about Linda herself. The action sometimes slows down, sometimes gains momentum. You read at your own risk.