The Hunter's Daughter

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Anna Koray escaped her father's darkness long ago. When she was a girl, her childhood memories were sealed away from her conscious mind by a controversial hypnosis treatment. She's now a decorated sheriff's lieutenant serving a rural county, conducting an ordinary life far from her father's shadow. When Anna kills a man in the line of duty, her suppressed memories return. She dreams of her beloved father, his hands red with blood, surrounded by flower-decked corpses he had sacrificed to the god of the forest. To Anna's horror, a serial killer emerges who is copying her father - and who knows who she really is. Is her father still alive, or is this the work of another Will the killer expose her, destroying everything she has built for herself Does she want him to But as she haunts the forest, using her father's tricks to the hunt the killer, will she find what she needs most...or lose herself in the gathering darkness A hypnotic, sinister debut mystery about a seemingly good cop who is secretly the daughter of a notorious serial killer. Anna Koray escaped her father's darkness long ago. When she was a girl, her childhood memories were sealed away from her conscious mind by a controversial hypnosis treatment. She's now a decorated sheriff's lieutenant serving a rural county, conducting an ordinary life far from her father's shadow. When Anna kills a man in the line of duty, her suppressed memories return. She dreams of her beloved father, his hands red with blood, surrounded by flower-decked corpses he had sacrificed to the god of the forest. To Anna's horror, a serial killer emerges who is copying her father - and who knows who she really is. Is her father still alive, or is this the work of another Will the killer expose her, destroying everything she has built for herself Does she want him to But as she haunts the forest, using her father's tricks to the hunt the killer, will she find what she needs most...or lose herself in the gathering darkness

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The Hunters Daughter is a genuinely creepy, atmospheric debut. Solvinic has crafted a propulsive story of crimes old and new, the power of memory and the darkness that dwells inside us all. Youll be turning pages all night and searching the woods for dark shadows (which just might be the Forest God.)
Jennifer McMahon, author of My Darling Girl

Original and compulsively readable, The Hunters Daughter is a pagan treasure; dark, memorable and ultimately satisfying. Vivid and fast-paced, the story draws you in from the first page and never lets go.
Scott Hawkins, author of The Library at Mount Char

Deliciously unpredictable and absolutely engrossing, Nicola Solvinics The Hunters Daughter is one of the best debuts Ive read in a very long time. With a dash of magical realism and the kind of complicated, conflicted heroine I love, Solvinic pulls off a nearly impossible feat: making the reader care about a woman who may well be following in her serial killer fathers footsteps. Put The Hunters Daughter at the top of your TBR listI loved this book!
Karen Dionne, bestselling author The Marsh King's Daughter

Adept depictions of childhood trauma and the power of legacy drive this story about the daughter of a serial killer who must now investigate her fathers copycat. Atmospheric, taut and haunting, The Hunters Daughter is a thoroughly compelling read!
Wendy Walker, bestselling author of What Remains

"In The Hunters Daughter Nicola Solvinic pulls off a neat trickgetting us to sympathize with the daughter of a serial killer who might just be responsible for a series of murders that closely track her fathers M.O. With a deep sense of place, and enough things to go bump in the night to keep you on the edge of your toes, I was guessing who done it until the final pages."
Catherine McKenzie, USA Today bestselling author of Ill Never Tell

I loved this story and our fearless heroine, Anna Koray. She's my favorite kind of protagonistcomplicated, daring, and determined to unearth long-buried secrets, even if her search for the truth puts everything she's built at risk. Nicola Solvinic has crafted a story equal parts horror and fairy tale, where dark forests harbor evil beings, and it is up to the reader to decide whether these creatures are monsters or men. Both disturbing and redemptive, The Hunter's Daughter is a page-turning tale of the pasts that haunt and the ties bind us. A propulsive and captivating debut.
Lauren Nossett, author of The Resemblance

Mystical and entrancing, The Hunter's Daughter plunges you into the deepest, darkest woods to uncover a family's sinister secrets with the one woman brave enough tolook evil in the eyes.
Georgina Cross, author of Nanny Needed

"Subterfuge and supernatural elements infuse this dark, absorbing debut."
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Author Bio

Nicola Solvinic has a master's degree in criminology and has worked in and around criminal justice for more than a decade. She lives in the Midwest with her husband and cats, where she is surrounded by a secret garden full of beehives.