The Hunter’s Daughter

Criminologist Solvinic’s suspenseful debut novel follows Deputy Sheriff Anna Koray, whose most recent investigation is troublingly similar to a grisly case involving her own father. Anna is the daughter of a serial killer—the Forest Strangler—but she has changed her name and suppressed memories of his deeds with the help of a child psychologist. After being shot in the line of duty, she is horrified when her memories resurface, and she begins to dream of her father, covered in blood and surrounded by the bodies of dead young women. Anna is even more troubled when similar killings start to surface. Could it be that there is a copycat killer out there? Someone clearly knows who Anna is, as she starts receiving upsetting messages. Will she be able to crack the case before she’s exposed? Narrator Samantha Desz takes listeners through this intense police procedural, enhanced with supernatural horror and an unreliable narrator. Desz keeps the story moving, and her nuanced portrait of Anna’s growing dread is satisfying.