I've read a few of Ted Dekker's novels before, but it wasn't until I picked up this one that I found out his work is classified as Christian fiction. At first I was flummoxed. It's a book about a serial killer who breaks his victim's bones and leaves them to die. But if you look deeper it's obvious the real story is a battle between good and evil.
From Amazon: They call him BoneMan, a serial killer who's abducted six young women. He's the perfect father looking for the perfect daughter, and when his victims fail to meet his lofty expectations, he kills them by breaking their bones and leaving them to die.
Intelligence officer Ryan Evans, on the other hand, has lost all hope of ever being the perfect father. His daughter and wife have written him out of their lives.
Everything changes when BoneMan takes Ryan's estranged daughter, Bethany, as his seventh victim. Ryan goes after BoneMan on his own.
But the FBI sees it differently. New evidence points to the suspicion that Ryan is BoneMan. Now the hunter is the hunted, and in the end, only one father will stand.
"The Boneman's Daughter" was a psychological thriller. Unfortunately it left me feeling like I was missing something. That something was part of the story. A quarter of the way through, I stopped and started to Google Ted Dekker and "The Boneman's Daughter". I was absolutely sure that this was part of a series and that I had entered in a few books late. No such luck. It's a stand-alone piece that weighs heavy on back story. A few times I was just lost. The characters felt half written and forced. I was sorely disappointed. I'm giving "The Boneman's Daughter" a C.
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