The daughter of an infamous murderer gets caught up in a copycat’s sick game in this thriller about legacy, self-determination, and corrosive secrecy from the bestselling author of Her Name is Knight, Not What She Seems, Behind These Four Walls, and She Drinks the Light
“Yasmin Angoe, she’s an amazing writer. She’s won all these awards and been nominated for three times as many. She’s incredible.” –Brad Thor for NBC’s The Today Show
Yasmin Angoe has earned her place at the forefront of contemporary thriller writing through the sheer force of her storytelling, building irresistible narratives around multidimensional characters whose motives feel terrifyingly real, pulse-pounding cinematic action, and a bold willingness to evoke readers’ darkest fears. She is a genre-defying voice whose work expands and reshapes the psychological thriller.
Already, Angoe has elevated the international espionage thriller with the acclaimed Nena Knight Trilogy (currently in development for TV by Fifth Season & Ink Factory), and put her unique stamp on domestic psychological suspense with her #1 Amazon bestsellers Not What She Seems and Behind These Four Walls. Now, in THE FERRYMAN’S DAUGHTER (Thomas & Mercer; October 1, 2026), Angoe takes readers into the mind of a serial killer – and the soul of the woman who carries his bloodlines.
Says Angoe of her latest novel’s genesis: “I’ve always been intrigued with the work of medical examiners/coroners and what they do as well as law enforcement and how they work to get their culprit. And I’ve always had a fascination with ‘the villain’ and what might drive them to do what they do. What justifications would they make because they’re the hero of their story because there’s always a reason. And, well, I just wanted to go darker and write about a serial killer.”
Forensic science teacher Sanaa Karrem’s serial killer father, known as “The Ferryman” vanished eighteen years ago – and with him a dark secret known only to her…
But as bodies with pennies on their eyes turn up, Sanaa recognizes her father’s Stygian calling-card, and her nightmares again become real. Soon, Sanaa starts receiving threatening messages and increasingly disturbing “gifts.” A copycat killer is toying with her, and she can’t tell anyone – not even her own fiancé, Detective Marcus Morelli, lead investigator on the case. As the body count escalates, Sanaa leans on her expertise as a former medical examiner to close in on the killer. What she finds is a horrific manifestation of her father’s legacy, hitting shockingly close to home. But what disturbs her most is how much this legacy still lingers within her…
THE FERRYMAN’S DAUGHTER is a tautly constructed, resonant thriller—the kind of novel that lingers in the imagination long after the final page. Fans of Alyssa Cole, Lisa Unger, and Thomas Harris will not want to miss this first installment of Yasmin Angoe’s long-awaited “Bloodlines” Trilogy.
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