Thank you Over The River PR, #partner, for the advanced copy of The Ferryman’s Daughter in exchange for my honest review.
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Published: October 1, 2206
Summary:
The daughter of an infamous murderer gets caught up in a copycat’s sick game in this thriller about legacy, self-determination, and corrosive secrecy from the bestselling author of Not What She Seems.
Forensic science teacher Sanaa Karrem buried her past as deep as she could. When her serial killer father, known as “the Ferryman,” disappeared eighteen years ago, she tried to disappear with him. She changed her name, built a new life. And for a while, it all felt like a distant nightmare.
But when bodies turn up with pennies on their eyes, Sanaa recognizes her father’s signature. The nightmare becomes real again. Soon, Sanaa starts receiving threatening messages and increasingly disturbing “gifts.” The killer is toying with her, and she can’t tell anyone—not even her own fiancé, Detective Marcus Morelli, lead investigator on the case.
As the body count rises, Sanaa leans on her expertise as a former medical examiner to close in on the killer. What she finds is a horrific manifestation of her father’s legacy, hitting shockingly close to home. But what disturbs her most is how much that legacy still lingers within her…
My thoughts:
Somehow this is my first time reading Yasmin Angoe and I clearly need to change that. Luckily this book is the first in a trilogy and I am all in! This book completely hooked me from the prologue and despite being just about 400 pages, I read it in 2 sittings…I just couldn’t put it down!
I love a good serial killer story, but when you add in characters who are medical examiners and coroners and also some law enforcement characters…it’s such a compelling, addictive read. And then being in the mind of the serial killer is always the chef’s kiss! While it does make for some chilling, dark reading — this is what I love most &and boy is this book dark and haunting! The way the serial killer, possibly a copy-cat, plays with our FMC was so unnerving and unsettling but at the same time I loved her tenacity to keep trying to figure things out. She thinks she knows more than everyone else…but does she?
I cannot wait to see where the next installment takes us…
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