Review: The Murderer's Daughter: A Novel by Jonathan Kellerman

The Murderer's Daughter: A Novel by Jonathan Kellerman
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

1,5 stars
This was me…as I turned the pages of Jonathan Kellerman’s latest standalone (though there are one or two very quick mentions of Alex Delaware from his Alex Delaware Series) novel, The Murderer’s Daughter…

The story started off beyond slowly….I asked myself….do I want to carry on or not???...but I persevered…perhaps it will gain some momentum soon!!! It didn’t much!!!

Grace Blades is a dedicated psychologist, who has a huge success dealing with troubled minds…how she did this was a bit not believable…hell, she has some serious shit of her own…..her personal life was a real mystery to me…..a lone woman, no friends who has sexual encounters that are pretty bizarre!!

Then one of her clients if found murdered and before you know it….never mind the cops doing the investigation….she decides to go on the hunt for the killers!!!!! And then we go on a totally unbelievable….beyond unbelievable trip with this super sleuth,…

The backstory chapters were the only parts I liked and the only reason that I didn’t totally dislike Grace…because the present day one was just too much for me….

The secondary characters were not memorable apart from Malcolm, the psychologist who adopted her and the woman she lived with as a child, Mrs Stage.

And how she finally discovers who the killer is, after working out all those clues…..really!!!! Wow, this is one hell of a Lara Croft!!!
And the ending…..jeez….I couldn’t understand it at all!!!
I didn’t like the writing either….I have read so much better books by this author.

I am sure that there are a lot of other readers who will like this book, but it just didn’t do it for me.

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