Review - The Diary of a Serial Killer's Daughter - LA Detwiler

Review: The Diary of a Serial Killer's Daughter - L.A Detwiler - March 2020

I was in the mood for a mystery read and the title of this book stood out to me being from the serial killer's child's POV. Other than the title, I didn't have any idea what the book was about.  The Diary of a Serial Killer's Daughter is written in diary format and follows the life of Ruby Marlowe. Ruby loves her father so much and would never betray his trust or break his rules. One day Ruby hears her father coming home and heading towards his shed, she is curious to see what happens in her father's shed as this is his happy place where she is forbidden to enter. At the back of the shed is a little hole in the wall, where Ruby can peek through. What she sees is a woman lying on a table and the color red everywhere, dripping on the floor. Red is her favorite color and watching her dad becomes her obsession as she over the years watches her dad kill the woman and play with them. Her diary is her only friend and so she writes about her life which in turn is detailing her father's crimes. As Ruby gets older she soon learns that what her dad is doing is wrong and that he is, in fact, a bad guy and as she ages into her teen years, Ruby must decide whether to turn in her father or become an accomplice to his murders and let him continue killing.  As this was written in diary format and a childish narrator, in parts was slow to read but as the book went along it kept you wondering what actions Ruby was going to take.