A review by bluestarfish
Letters to My Daughter's Killer by Cath Staincliffe

3.0

This novel tackles a huge topic. What is Ruth to do now that her daughter has been violently murdered? As the title might suggest the story unfolds (in a suprisingly linear way) in a number of letters Ruth writes to the killer of her daughter trying to make sense of the world that has been left behind and what to do with it. I admire her for where she ends up at the end of the book so I'm not sure why I didn't really fall for this character while reading the novel. Dead Man Walking by Sr Helen Prejean kept popping into my head which isn't a very fair comparison as one is a novel and one is a true story but I guess there are moments in each where the family of a murdered person are left to deal with life, their emotions and everything...