{"id":3656,"date":"2024-05-16T11:49:33","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T11:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3656"},"modified":"2025-06-03T16:11:05","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T16:11:05","slug":"the-hunters-daughter-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?p=3656","title":{"rendered":"The Hunter&#8217;s Daughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"604\" src=\"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Solvinic-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3659\" srcset=\"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Solvinic-2.jpg 400w, https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Solvinic-2-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Subterfuge and supernatural elements infuse this dark, absorbing debut. Our protagonist is Midwestern police detective Anna Koray, who\u2019s had a relatively staid career until she makes the mistake of confronting a violent perpetrator without backup. She kills him, but is shot herself in the process. When recovering, she\u2019s required to undertake counseling; at the same time, she pushes herself into the investigation of a serial killer whose horrifying work resembles that of her father, who years ago was executed for his murder of multiple women as sacrifices to a forest god. Both Anna\u2019s colleagues and the doctor she\u2019s in a burgeoning relationship with have no idea that she spent her childhood in thrall to the Forest Strangler. Anna herself doesn\u2019t even have all the details, which were sealed away in her subconscious by a manipulative therapist whom she now sees for the reverse process, setting in motion an emotional and dangerous roller coaster of unraveling secrets and treacherous confrontations. A cold-case podcaster adds a moral dilemma to the exciting tale\u2014when is it better to leave the truth buried? Readers who enjoy a wilderness thriller, such as Elizabeth Hand\u2019s <em>Hokuloa Road<\/em> or Paul Doiron\u2019s <em>Dead Man\u2019s Wake<\/em>, will appreciate this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subterfuge and supernatural elements infuse this dark, absorbing debut. Our protagonist is Midwestern police detective Anna Koray, who\u2019s had a relatively staid career until she makes the mistake of confronting&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-review"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Henrietta Thornton","author_link":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/?author=4"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firstcluereviews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}