The reviews surfacing for this book had me so excited to read it, I had such high hopes but sadly, this turned out to be another ‘run-of-mill’ psychological thriller.

Usually I love an insight into the mind of a serial killer but here I did not enjoy reading the killer’s journal articles that featured in this novel. It felt too much like the entries were written to repulse [which they certainly did], rather than to add to the plot. Usually I look for the logic the serial killer uses to justify their actions but here I found none, except this man was just evil and killing for kicks. And if you read this story, you can fathom this information without needing the diary entries.

It didn’t help that I didn’t like any of the characters, and this, I believe, is a story where you need a connection to the main protagonist. There were certain times when the actions of the characters frustrated me, for example, if you’re in danger or believe you’re in danger or have previously been in danger – for goodness sake – lock your doors!

I read a lot of psychological thrillers, so maybe this was a case of ‘too much of the same’ – the title of the book takes away all of the mystery so perhaps a different title was needed or some unreliable narration to deter the reader away from knowing exactly where the plot was going and who was responsible for certain actions. I’ve read a few novels where the plot/certain information is purposely given away at the start of the book and sometimes this works really well but in this one, knowing what to expected diluted the plot twist and caused a lack of tension, suspense and thrill. Sadly, The Serial Killer’s Daughter was a miss for me.

Can't quite believe I forgot this book was hiding on my kindle! A terrifically dark and twisted read.

The Serial Killer's Daughter is a twisted and dark story.

A good read although slightly unbelievable in places. Certainly well written and keeps the reader's interest throughout.

2.75 stars

This was a likable story that other readers will enjoy but it just wasn't entertaining enough for me and there were only a couple POVs that were genuinely interesting. Ultimately, I didn't connect with any of the characters and the way the flashback/ reminiscing scenes were mixed into the text also didn't work for me.

The upside? This book is perfect for the reader looking for light suspense, light drama, and lower-grade intensity on the thrilling side. The British slang tossed in was also interesting.

Don must be one of the most scary, messed up characters I have ever read about (much kudos Lesley for imagining him up) I hope I never come across someone like him.

A scary, bone chilling book, that has to be read in my view. Simply a cracker.

I'm sorry but this one was not for me. I read a lot of crime, serial killer, murder mystery, suspense and thriller books so I can manage gruesome scenes and unpleasant people but this, for me, had very few redeeming features.

The title gives away the entire first half of the book so there is no mystery or suspense in the story that is unfolding for the characters. All that remains - and continues throughout the book - is the repetitive, gratuitous and callous descriptions of rape and murder and misogyny, written to shock, but with no other purpose or psychological insight.

The antagonists are cartoonish and two-dimensional and I felt nothing for the remaining characters who were too stupid to even lock their doors! I had to skim towards the end of the book which was peppered with very convenient witness sightings and cliffhangers of details we already knew and had a ridiculous and almost comical final third.

I'm sorry I didn't enjoy it but thank you to NetGalley and Bookouture for the opportunity to read this ARC.

This book was amazing and i think it was perfect for me ad showed a lot off great character building expertise.

I really loved how she has written this book and how well it resonated with me.

Truly one of the great works of fiction and a topic that I hadn't really seen before

The Serial Killer Daughter  name was want got me interested in reading this book, I read a lot of crime fiction and was intrigued by this premise. 

The book follows Suzanne brought up by a single mum with a dad that would randomly appear in her life. It been 10 years since she has seen her father, then out of the blue a women Rose calls Suzanne to tell her that her dad died 5 months ago. Rose has photographed and journal that she wants her to have. When she looks at the photo she finds a photo of her friend that died 10 years ago in a fire just after her dad last visit. Needing to find out more she starts digging into her father past where she finds out the horrible things he has done. But Suzanne digging has put her on the radar of someone else after her father.

I was hooked from the first page, the story is riveting with great twists and turns. Although the book is  Suzanne story we get to see read the story from other people prospective, making the book a thriller.

I think want scary about this book that there are people like Suzanne father out their charming liars that on the surface look like good people. But that are manipulative and dark who use people for their own gain that don't like it when they are not the centre of attention.

I also like the fact that we get to see the impact to the family because of the crimes committed. It's not just all over when the trial is over.

I would highly recommend this book and I will be looking out for more books by this author

I give this book  5 out of 5

I loved this book and it's sad to know that this will be the last story by this author.
The general theme is for a daughter to discover that not only is her father absent but he in fact a serial killer. The story is set in the present day and in the past.
You learn all about Susan and her family.
The characters were well written and the tension built as you read each chapter. I would definately recommend reading this.
Susan has to decide do you learn about the past or leave it in the past.

This is a dark, dark thriller with some good twists and turns along the way.
Suzanne is a teacher married to salesman, Mark. Throughout Suzanne's childhood her father on,y visited her a few times since being divorced from Suzanne's mum, Jeannie. Her father lived abroad or so she thought until one day a woman named Rose rang Suzanne to inform her that her father had died and that she had photos, diaries and other bits and bobs Suzanne should have.
Here the story turns as Suzanne starts to find out what her father was and what he was capable. Don Tyler was an unloved child that went on to be a cold and brutal murderer always seemingly covering his tracks well. The book has a lot of twists and shocks as you read this so am not going to spoil it but Suzanne's life is turned upside down not least by finding out that he had murdered her best friend.
The story moved along at a good pace and unlike some other thrillers the plot seems like it could almost happen not like some that start off good and become unbelievable.
I would like to thank netgalley and bookouture for this ARC I received in exchange for an honest review.

I am thrilled to welcome you to my stop on the The Serial Killer’s Daughter blog tour which I share with the very lovely Shell over at Chelle’s Book Reviews. The Serial Killer’s Daughter is written by Lesley Welsh and was published by the mighty Bookouture on 14th June 2017.

And what a novel! You know when you start reading a book but you ‘kind of’ know what to expect…? Maybe a variation on the theme of judging a book by it’s cover…? (Although I have to say that I love the cover of this one and if anything, it caught my attention and made me want to read it even more.) I was so totally, completely, absolutely wrong in my assumptions. This book packs one heck of a punch and I really enjoyed it, a lot more than I initially thought I would.

Don Tyler, Suzanne’s estranged father, is probably one of the most evil, manipulative and sinister characters I have ever met (in a fictional sense of course). The classic horror/noir novel, American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis is mentioned within the plot but I was drawing similarities between Don and Patrick Bateman waaay before then. And if you’ve read American Psycho you may now have some idea why I was so surprised by this book! The plot does contain some pretty hefty sexual content (which I do like to avoid reading about….normally) but it worked and was key to the storyline. Without certain aspects then Don, just wouldn’t be….well, Don! I felt uncomfortable, of course, but that’s what I believe the author was trying to do. I should add that The Serial Killer’s Daughter is by no means as graphic as American Psycho so don’t let that put you off. But I did feel there were similarities between the two.

I liked Suzanne. I liked how normal she was despite being the daughter of a serial killer. But my favourite character was Joan, Suzanne’s mother. Ex-hippy now happily settled with a nice, normal, stable man but still able to control her ruthless, immoral, psychopathic beast of an ex. Now that’s girl power, lol!

Would I recommend this book? I would. It’s dark, edgy and unexpected. I love a book where the body count is high and it certainly is in this one thanks to Don’s ‘talents’. All in all, a great read which I heartily recommend to all serial killer thriller fans. In fact, I would go as far as saying that this is one novel fans of the serial killer thriller should not miss!

Four out of five stars.

I chose to read and review an eARC of The Serial Killer’s Daughter. The above review is my own unbiased opinion.

Suzanne's not seen her dad in 10 years when the woman who was living with asks to meet up. She tells her that he recently died and that she wants her to have his possessions including what seems his life story...and photographs of young women including one of her mother. While flicking through these Suzanne is shocked to the core to see her friend Sophie among them. Sophie died 10 years ago in a fire in a studio they co-shared.

Something tells Suzanne she has to investigate her father's life more fully and what she finds out will have devastating consequences. A fast paced and twisty story - her father Don is not what he seems - he's a ladies man, charming, a bully, a smooth talker and thinks he's one step ahead. A creepy read which I couldn't put down.

Suzanne's father Don left her and her mother when she was quite young and she's only seen him once since then. She's not particularly upset to find out from Rose, his girlfriend, that he has died. Rose has brought her some belongings of her father's, amongst which are diaries and photographs of women. Curious, and despite her mother's warning, she starts to read the diaries. What she discovers is that her father was a charmer, a liar and a cheat and much, much worse. I don't want to go into more detail as I don't want to give away too much of the plot. The book starts a little slowly, but builds to quite the horrifying picture of a monster... some scenes were disturbing and not for the faint of heart. The writing is excellent and if you're not averse to gory details, you'll find this an absorbing book.
Thank you, Netgalley and Bookouture for the eARC.

Woah! Don Tyler is one scary dude. He is definitely one I would not like to meet in a dark alley. Actually, he is not one I would like to meet in broad daylight even, anywhere. I can truthfully say that this book scared the crap out of me. This guy was relentless. Heartless and hell bent to get whatever and whoever he wanted. I finished reading this book about 2:30 in the morning. I HAD to start another book, just to get this guy out of my mind. There was no way I was sleeping with him still on my mind.

Definitely a great read and if your into creepy, scary, a book that should be right up your alley.

Thanks to Bookouture and Net Galley for providing me with a free e-galley in exchange for an honest, unbiased review. Kudos to the author, you are one sick woman! HA!!

3.5 stars rounded to 4

This book was kind of an agreeable surprise. I was checking Bookouture titles in NetGalley and i thought this one seemed intriguing. And it turned out to be really good.

Suzanne Tyler's life changed the day that Rose Anderson brought her diaries belonging to her recently dead father. She was first confused by all the women's pictures she found, and then shocked when she found one of a friend who died years ago in a fire!
So what did all that meant?
As she starts to read these diaries, and investigate the past of this cery charming, very intriguing father she had, she starts to discover some unpleasant truths.

The character of Donald Tyler was so creepy, yet fascinating! I wouldn't want to meet him in real life, even from a safe distance!
and the story never took the turns i expected. The plot was catchy and It was really interesting to see how he affected all the people around him, even beyond the grave.
The other characters where also interesting, some of them almost as intriguing as Don.

Overall this was an enjoyable quick read and i recommend it to my friends.

Wow! This Don Tyler is a piece of work! To say he's disturbed would be the understatement of understatements.
I'm not quite sure what I was expecting when I started The Serial Killer's Daughter. Obviously I wasn't expecting a lovey dovey romance, given the title, but I was not prepared for the truly awful crimes committed by this evil psychopath. This story isn't for the faint-hearted or for anyone who is easily offended by vulgar language, but it is an interesting insight into the mind of a serial killer who kills for no other reason than just because they can and because they continually manage to avoid capture. I know this is fiction, but we all know there are people like this roaming our earth.
Don comes across to me as being an average looking bloke, but one who is successful with the ladies because he has the gift of the gab and is able to switch on the charm when it suits. He has no regard for human life, just his own selfish and sadistic desires and the need to do whatever it takes to get him what, who and where he wants. He has serious Mummy issues and he doesn't even love his own children.
When his daughter, Suzanne, is contacted by Rose (Don's current partner), as Don has passed away and she has some personal belongings to pass on, she has no idea of the situation she is walking into or the danger she will face thanks to her own father.
There are lots of characters, all with their own integral part to the story. Don is a scarily intelligent, manipulative character. There are twists and turns galore which kept me gripped from start to finish. The story flows perfectly with numerous shocking truths uncovered along the way. Brilliantly written with excellent characterisation. I highly recommend.

Have you ever put down a book with a sense of relief? Not because it was a painful read, but because the darkness were so thick you felt the oxygen was starting to lack for you to breathe properly and you were starting to forget what the sun looks like? This is what happened to me with The Serial Daughter’s Killer!

Openings play an important part in how I welcome a book. Lesley Welsh had the book welcome me, not the other way around, with a cold and compelling start. This is when I knew I would not be able to leave this book alone. There was something in the mysterious and freezing scene that gripped me with its claws and I gave in, immersing myself right away.

Suzanne had a cosy and comfortable life. Not so exciting, one of those suburban lives many people settle in. A marriage with ups and downs, a loving mother, and the heart and soul of an artist, she was living a simple existence.

That was before her father came back into the picture. I love complicated families and I am no stranger to heavy father/daughter relationships, but gosh this one was special! I felt right from the start but I could never have imagined the twisted and harrowing experience I was about to get in!

There’s something weird in getting a dead person’s belongings when you weren’t close to them and hear about their death five months later! Weird and exciting. It is bound to tickle your curiosity. It worked on me! Who wouldn’t open a box containing their father’s last proof of existence on this Earth? Except some things are better left in boxes! Those boxes buried in the garden. Better, burned on a cold night! Or sent to space!!

As those boxes make their appearances, we get memories and feelings from the past, and I couldn’t help drawing the blurred figure of her father in my head, slowly coming alive as I turned the pages and learned more. There was something off about him. I couldn’t help but sensing a sick feeling from the pages (even when reading on a Kindle!). We all carry examples of fathers, good or bad, but I couldn’t put this one in a category. There were contradictory emotions coming from him, or from his memory of him from his daughter that threw me off. I think Twisted, is the box he belonged to, and I quickly realized it was even more complicated than this when Suzanne came across pictures and notebooks filled with women… and what had happened to them.

I should immediately warn you I believe the author’s characterization of Suzanne’s father is so powerful you feel his presence everywhere, like an ominous shadow you can’t see but know deep down in your heart that is following you. Don Tyler is one of the strongest and most captivating protagonists I have ever encountered in a story. I often wished I could put him in a glass cage and observe him, have a clear view of his mind and what the hell could bring such a man to act the way he did. Then I wanted to dissect him to find where and when his genes or brain wires had gone wrong! And I scared myself with those crazy thoughts that were triggered by this man’s actions. Scarcely had I felt so strongly about a serial killer to the point I wanted to spill his guts and see how rotten he was!!! His death never takes away the influence he seemed to have on people, starting by Suzanne’s mother, or the woman he was living with, Rose. Alive victims of a monster.

Suzanne, just like I would have, needs answers, which I felt was totally natural. After all, don’t we all want to know where we come from, no matter how difficult to truth is to handle?

But then things took a turn I hadn’t seen coming and I was felt shaking my head in disbelief, having thought I had a good idea of where the story was leading me. In fact, I was completely, utterly, and absolutely lost. And frightened. Things did not add up, I couldn’t make sense of the events unfolding before my very eyes, I could not fathom the reasons behind the actions, I could only feel Suzanne’s helplessness and try to keep my heartbeat to stop going too fast! What had started as a slow and horrendous series of discoveries and raised questions turned into a thrilling chase and a frightening nightmare. The kind you wake up from covered in sweat and holding the sheet for dear life!

This book is like an old dirt road, full of bumps, twists, holes that send you up and down with the car, giving you waves of nausea with every turn of the steering wheel! You look into a peephole and you’re sucked into the most obscure scenes, and when you think it can’t get worse, you get a surprise. I’ll leave you to imagine whether they’re good or bad…

Suzanne is very easy to warm to. There’s an honesty in her heart, and it only takes a short while for the reader to take her side. I loved the balance between all characters, the author giving you just enough to know them without stripping them of some sort of fog, of mystery, that makes you wonder who they truly are and makes them so human. No one is an open book, and Lesley Welsh’s sharp pen turned words into multi-dimensional characters you can feel for, be angry with, or want to help. There are no bad and good boys and girls. Just people with their flaws and sides, and your heart and mind work together, emotions evolving as the story uses its characters in a clever and intense way that reminds you the world is grey.

This is not only the story of a man. It is the narration of what hell on Earth can do to so many people. I loved … Can the word “love” be a part of this review? I am not sure. I relished in the way every action of a single man had consequences on so many lives, and that with details, glimpses, and snippets, I was able to imagine it all, without needing to fully dive into every life touched by the devil. The author masterfully created a web of lies, blood, and horror, and birthed the awful spider which fed on them.

The Serial Killer’s Daughter is a riveting, haunting and twisted family tale, a nightmare written so gorgeously you don’t need to close your eyes to feel it, to live it.

This is a fun, twisty-turny read. It's fast paced, violent, and will definitely keep you reading.

I liked our main character and especially liked the way the author put her characters through their paces. No one is safe and I found myself shocked more than once at a turn the book took.

My main issue with the book was our serial killer. This was such a one dimensional character! Utterly charmless and charm was necessary to the character. I found myself wishing the author had spent time really fleshing this character out more.

All in all, it was an entertaining read. I would try the author again.

The title alone made this a must read for me, if you’ve been following me for more than a week it’s no secret that I have a sick fascination with serial killer novels. Then the blurb drew me in even deeper as I was intrigued by the idea of dead serial killer leaving a journal full of horrors behind. This book is definitely not as straightforward as I was expecting it to be and the author had some wicked twists up her sleeve that shook me up.

Welsh did such a fantastic job crafting such a horrendous character in Don, he is the personification of evil incarnate and a master manipulator. He’s vulgar, crass and disgusting yet he can turn on the charm when it suits him and that is what makes my blood run cold. Alternatively, Suzanne was someone I could sympathize with and I can’t imagine walking a day in her shoes.

This had a steady pacing with moments where you read about the backstory surrounding Don’s life, but also the women he came into contact with as well as Suzanne, and then faster paced, intense scenes that got my heart racing. The characterization was great and I’m always extremely interested in a killers motivations and life before they turned into a sadistic monster. Some of the past is revealed through excerpts from Don’s journal and they made my skin crawl they were so chilling. Since the plot wasn’t entirely what I had expected I’ll stop here and just say that it’s a great read for fans of this genre and had an explosive climax that was ultimately satisfying and terrifying.