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Jenny works as a vet in the sleepy village of Devon. She lives in the countryside with her husband Mark and their 2 children. A perfectly nice family right? But everyone has secrets they want to keep hidden. Jenny is the daughter of a prolific serial killer father and a control freak mother. There is no doubt that I loved this book. I cannot wait to lose myself in the author’s other book very soon. Bar her need to remove it for work sometimes, it’s only ever come off her finger once before during our ten-year marriage. And on that occasion, all hell broke loose. Did she throw this at me last night? I couldn’t have been too drunk to remember. It was only one bottle of wine. But something made her take it off. And now she’s hiding away in the en suite.
This one was a slower burn than the first, and a bit less “psychological,” but I still enjoyed it. The interviews between the killers were great fun. I lol forward to where the author will go next. This was a great thriller with some good twists. The Author creates the needed suspension and storyline that will keep you reading until the end. Great premise to a story that will keep you guessing. Having enjoyed the authors previous work ‘The Serial Killer’s Wife’ I was excited to receive #TheSerialKillersDaughter and I was not disappointed!I would say that this could be read as a standalone too but the extra knowledge from the previous book kept me rapidly reading to find out snippets of information that I remembered. In addition to the increasingly tense situation is that a local woman, Olivia Edwards is missing and Jenny believes Mark once had an affair with her. This read focuses a lot on the human mind. Insecurities, indecisiveness, doubt, fear, betrayal- they’re all emotions portrayed amazingly. Even love. I liked that this read revolved around a person balancing work, family, parenting AND her social life. And to add onto that, enough family trauma to fill an ocean. Scroll down for more! Morning, Jen – thank God. I was beginning to worry.’ Hayley scoots her chair out from the reception desk and stands, reaching over the counter to pass me a piece of paper. ‘These are the early morning animals in for surgery. Nisha has done the preliminaries; Vanessa is organising the operating room and I’ve booked them in.’ Her voice is clipped.
This story features the daughter of a serial killer (the clue is in the title) and the main character Jenny, has spent her life denying her past and trying to make amends for her father's crimes. I’ve been in a major reading slump for a year but this has pulled me right out of it. Every spare moment I had, I was reading this and staying up to the early hours. When I saw there was a sequel to The Serial Killers Wife by Alice Hunter, I just had to read it. There is always that seed of worry in your mind though when you have loved a book so much, Will the nex one live up to the expectation. Is Jenny losing her mind as she has started to find dead animals that have been left for her but could it be someone from her past? Is it her insane mother that wants to keep trying to destroy her life?Tense, chilling and gripping, with so many revelations and twists and turns, and a brilliant ending.’ ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Now, what worked well. The writing was fine. The actual plot was okay. The story being told from both Jenny and Mark's points of view was really good.
Why isn’t Daddy taking us?’ Ella asks as she pulls her booster seat from the rear of the car and positions it in the passenger side of my Volvo estate. If you enjoy an edge-of-your-seat psychological thriller you will not go wrong reaching for this book. It is gripping and full of twists that leave you wondering all the time. A brilliant read that I would highly recommend. Get a copy – you will not be disappointed However, despite a number of very positive aspects to the story it feels inconsistent. For instance, the tension rises and then drops and little momentum is achieved in my opinion. There’s not a lot of pace, the story seems flat and an exciting when it’s ought to be a jaw dropper and sadly it doesn’t achieve that response in me. This is partly due to points being over explained and we divert to things that don’t add a great deal to the storytelling. It’s repetitive in places too. When a young woman goes missing from the village suspicion starts to fall on her. Can she prove she is innocent or will her past put an end to that. The final nail in the coffin for me was the absolutely unnecessary epilogue in which one of Jenny's children cruelly pulls the wings from a butterfly only to smash the poor thing into the table. This was supposedly to cause Jenny to wonder if the "serial killer gene" skipped a generation to "infect" her child, but due to the fact that there was a lot of talk about animal mutilations in this book just leads me to seriously wonder about the author herself.
We’ll talk later,’ I say, smiling to reassure him. I need the next eight hours to come up with a suitable explanation – a reason why I’m feeling this way. One that doesn’t involve me telling him the truth. Chapter 4 JENNY What an unputdownable thriller!!! Following on from The Serial Killer’s Wife, we witness how the little girls life unfolds through adulthood and the family secrets that spring to the surface. Our worries and questions will eat away at us if we keep them buried. Like poison waiting to claim a victim.” Could Jen be responsible for everything that is going wrong? After all, her father is a serial killer....not that she has ever told Mark. Is she following in her fathers footsteps?
It’s times like these I wish he’d made use of the ample space in our house to set up his office here – it would save a lot of bother as well as keep business costs down, but he was adamant he needed a place away from the home, somewhere he could separate his work and family life. So, for now, his workplace is in Exeter, about a forty-minute drive away. The plus with having my vet practice just on the outskirts of the village is that I’m there in minutes – no rush-hour traffic to cope with; no road diversions or traffic jams – so I usually take the kids. Because this morning hasn’t begun as planned, the early start is out of the window. This has been completely unpredictable and OMG THAT ENDING!!!! I need more!! I’m really hoping that there is more to come because Hunter cannot leave it like that! I’ve literally been like “nooooo”
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Jenny is married to Mark and mother to Ella, 8, and Alfie, 6. Mark works in IT and Jenny is a veterinarian. Jenny is hiding a dark past that compels her to go out at night and Mark doesn’t know what she does or where she goes. Actually, Jenny doesn’t remember what she does either. There’s a lot of ambiguity in this story as Jenny suspects many others around her, including her husband. She is paranoid she is being framed because of her family connections, but her sleepwalking does little to lighten her own suspicions – especially when she sees video footage of some of her night-time behaviours. At the same time, Hunt makes it clear that her marriage to Mark is not especially strong and there is a lot of deception between the two. With the local abduction adding to the tension, I found it difficult to understand whether this couple would ever reconcile their growing differences.
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