"...novelist Gould (Fort Apache, the Bronx; Cocktail) is back with a noir thriller, full of action, dark humor, multiple killings, and a swath of eccentric characters plucked from the American heartland... This high-caliber redemptive road trip is quick-witted, stylish, and highly entertaining."
- Library Journal, Seamus Scanlon, Ctr. for Worker Education, CUNY
Peter Vogel, a college senior with literary ambitions, has lurid, erotic fantasies about an enigmatic classmate, Hannah Seeley. She favors his overtures with a dismissive smile until one day, out of the blue, she offers him a propostion. If he ghostwrites her papers she'll have sex with him. He agrees. She becomes an "A" student and disappears at the end of the semester. After graduation, Hannah suddenly reappears, bringing with her a chain of bizarre events, home invasions, carjackings, murder. Hannah confesses to Peter. Someone is stalking her. Hannah is the daughter of Arnold Seeley, the Robinsgate Serial Killer. Who could be after her? Peter discovers the list of suspects is long and the motive unknown. After a close encounter, they have no choice but to hit the road. The chase is on. It's a cross-country thrill ride, a cat-and-mouse chase involving murder, deception, and sheer survival.
"Gould is a movie guy (screenwriter for Boys of Brazil, among other writing and directing credits), and it shows in the big-screen style he brings to this novel. no essayish exposition, just snappy dialogue and narrative set forth in sentences bursting with energy....The reader gets to "watch" a fine thriller unfold"
- Booklist, Don Crinklaw
"I've mentioned my fondness for the books of Heywood Gould before...It's another wild and entertaining ride that's hard to put down...Best that you find out what happens for yourself. It's funny, it's gruesome, it's a great road trip. I've accumulated a couple more of Gould's books to read sooner or later. I can't seem to resist them. You should give this one a try."
- Bill Crider, Pop Culture Magazine Review
"Author Heywood Gould has crafted a hell of a thrill ride in The Serial Killer's Daughter. The action jumps off immediately and never lets up, forcing Peter and Hannah to run from pillar to post in their efforts to both stay alive and figure out who's behind the attacks. Through it all Gould keeps the pace blistering, the violence visceral, and the actions of Peter and Hannah absolutely believable. Gould also keeps the tension between Gould also keeps the tension between Peter and Hannah just tight enough that neither Peter nor the reader knows for sure if Hannah has revealed all she knows about what's going on."
- Savannah Morning News, Florida Times-Union, - Elizabeth A. White
"Heywood Gould has written an exciting crime thriller that looks deeply into the various masks people wear and change to hide their peculiarities and what they consider a fault. ... Readers will understand that even serial killers have families who are victims of their insanity too as Mr. Gould allows fans to see up close how the Serial killer's Daughter survives the whisperers about her heritage."
- Midwest Book Review, Harriet Klausner
"With the creation of Peter Vogel, veteran author Heywood Gould has accomplished for THE SERIAL KILLER'S DAUGHTER what Salinger's Holden Caulfield did for CATCHER IN THE RYE."
- Jedwin Smith, Two-time Pulitzer nominee and author of FATAL
TREASURE and OUR BROTHER'S KEEPER
"One never knows where Heywood Gould's creative mind will take us and he's in rare form again. Now I am honest enough to state that serial killers are not my favorite stories per se, but actually this IS about the serial killer's daughter and her wild ride through the mystery. Fast ride, weird assortment of characters. And the end did surprise me. Enjoy!"
- I LOVE A MYSTERY Magazine, Manya Nogg,
Genre: Mystery
- Library Journal, Seamus Scanlon, Ctr. for Worker Education, CUNY
Peter Vogel, a college senior with literary ambitions, has lurid, erotic fantasies about an enigmatic classmate, Hannah Seeley. She favors his overtures with a dismissive smile until one day, out of the blue, she offers him a propostion. If he ghostwrites her papers she'll have sex with him. He agrees. She becomes an "A" student and disappears at the end of the semester. After graduation, Hannah suddenly reappears, bringing with her a chain of bizarre events, home invasions, carjackings, murder. Hannah confesses to Peter. Someone is stalking her. Hannah is the daughter of Arnold Seeley, the Robinsgate Serial Killer. Who could be after her? Peter discovers the list of suspects is long and the motive unknown. After a close encounter, they have no choice but to hit the road. The chase is on. It's a cross-country thrill ride, a cat-and-mouse chase involving murder, deception, and sheer survival.
"Gould is a movie guy (screenwriter for Boys of Brazil, among other writing and directing credits), and it shows in the big-screen style he brings to this novel. no essayish exposition, just snappy dialogue and narrative set forth in sentences bursting with energy....The reader gets to "watch" a fine thriller unfold"
- Booklist, Don Crinklaw
"I've mentioned my fondness for the books of Heywood Gould before...It's another wild and entertaining ride that's hard to put down...Best that you find out what happens for yourself. It's funny, it's gruesome, it's a great road trip. I've accumulated a couple more of Gould's books to read sooner or later. I can't seem to resist them. You should give this one a try."
- Bill Crider, Pop Culture Magazine Review
"Author Heywood Gould has crafted a hell of a thrill ride in The Serial Killer's Daughter. The action jumps off immediately and never lets up, forcing Peter and Hannah to run from pillar to post in their efforts to both stay alive and figure out who's behind the attacks. Through it all Gould keeps the pace blistering, the violence visceral, and the actions of Peter and Hannah absolutely believable. Gould also keeps the tension between Gould also keeps the tension between Peter and Hannah just tight enough that neither Peter nor the reader knows for sure if Hannah has revealed all she knows about what's going on."
- Savannah Morning News, Florida Times-Union, - Elizabeth A. White
"Heywood Gould has written an exciting crime thriller that looks deeply into the various masks people wear and change to hide their peculiarities and what they consider a fault. ... Readers will understand that even serial killers have families who are victims of their insanity too as Mr. Gould allows fans to see up close how the Serial killer's Daughter survives the whisperers about her heritage."
- Midwest Book Review, Harriet Klausner
"With the creation of Peter Vogel, veteran author Heywood Gould has accomplished for THE SERIAL KILLER'S DAUGHTER what Salinger's Holden Caulfield did for CATCHER IN THE RYE."
- Jedwin Smith, Two-time Pulitzer nominee and author of FATAL
TREASURE and OUR BROTHER'S KEEPER
"One never knows where Heywood Gould's creative mind will take us and he's in rare form again. Now I am honest enough to state that serial killers are not my favorite stories per se, but actually this IS about the serial killer's daughter and her wild ride through the mystery. Fast ride, weird assortment of characters. And the end did surprise me. Enjoy!"
- I LOVE A MYSTERY Magazine, Manya Nogg,
Genre: Mystery
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