This book was fine - a quick but largely empty read. Not especially thrilling. The pacing felt totally off, especially during the last 10% or so, and then the concluding moments with Hannah's pregnancy were ridiculously contrived. Awkward, unbelievable sex scenes. Awkward, unbelievable dark humor that is neither dark nor humorous. This is a good stab (my gift: a pun) at a first novel and reads as such.

Love Letters to a Serial Killer is like nothing I have read before. This one is truly in a category all of its own, and the more I think about it, the more I think I enjoyed it!

This story follows Hannah, who in her 30s, finds herself in a rut. Her job is a bore, she feels disconnected from her soon-to-be-married best friend, and the guy she's been in love with has moved on to someone else. Hannah is lonely. She needs a change. When four women are killed in Atlanta, apparently by an active serial killer, Hannah discovers True Crime forums. She's immediately hooked into the energetic community of online sleuths. When a handsome lawyer, William, is arrested for the crimes, Hannah's interest quickly becomes obsession.

Captivated by the case, Hannah decides to write William a letter as a way to air all of her frustrations and anger. What harm could come of it? It feels like a great way to express herself, and no one else will ever know anything about it. Unexpectedly, William writes back. His letters are surprisingly charming and he seems so interested in her. It's hard to reconcile his beautiful letters with the horrible monster the world is claiming him to be.

As mentioned, this whole thing has become an obsession of sorts for Hannah. It takes over her life. After losing her job for poor performance, she decides to leave her life behind and head to Atlanta to attend William's trial.

The trial is a media frenzy, but in spite of the chaos, Hannah attends each and every day. She ends up befriending some other attendees and eventually begins to feel more at home there than she ever did in her old life. When a 5th-woman is murderer while the trial is underway, it throws everything into question. How can William be the guilty party, if women are still being murdered the same way while he's locked up?

With this huge development, and the prosecution having nothing more than circumstantial evidence against him, the jury has no choice but to find William not guilty. Guess who he calls upon after?

That's right. Hannah. The two move in together and officially become a couple. Everything is great. William is so supportive of her, she doesn't even have to get a new job. All the more time for investigating him, because Hannah still suspects William could be a serial killer, acquittal or not.

Honestly, Love Letters to a Serial Killer is an odd little story. Even though I didn't like Hannah, or her bonkers choices, I still found it to be ridiculously compelling. I could not stop reading! I feel like this one is going to garner some strong opinions upon its release, and I'm definitely interested to read them all. I found it to be completely original and wickedly fun, but it definitely tackles some taboo topics.

It did take me a minute to commit to the story. Hannah seems so desperate in the beginning. It annoyed me. I thought to myself, no wonder she is going to fall for a serial killer. She was just looking for any attention AT ALL. Once it got to the point where she discovered the forums though, I was hooked. Then there was the letters! Was she nuts? He hadn't even gone to trial yet. She was thinking he'd be locked up forever, but that's never guaranteed. Her choices were just a string of, 'WTF, Hannah?!?', moments, and I was eating it up.

As it goes along, it gets more and more wild. The family gets involved, other people, and then their relationship. OMG, I just, I'm not really sure how to sum up my thoughts on it. It's sick, it's twisted, it's slightly deranged, but I liked it. Hannah is like the Carole Ann Boone of the Romantic Thriller genre.

Thank you so much to the publisher, Berkley, for providing me with a copy to read and review. This is an incredibly memorable one for me and I can't wait to get more from this author!

Love Letters to a Serial Killer is like a Lifetime movie in print. It was compulsively readable and the main character's actions made me cringe nearly every page.

If you are a true crime junkie and love thrillers, this book is for you! I enjoyed it so much and read it in one day - unputdownable! Hannah is in her late 30s, and her life seems to be falling apart at every turn. Whether it’s dating, friendships, family, or work, she feels unvalued and unsatisfied. She finds a forum dedicated to solving a string of murders, becomes obsessed, and begins writing the man on trial for the murders. To her surprise, he writes her back, and a long-distance relationship of sorts begins. And it just keeps getting crazier from there!

This book is told in the first person, which was really helpful for me to connect with the main character, because otherwise I think I would have written her off as a psycho (which… accurate) and had a very different mentality through the book. Instead, reading through her point of view cast her as a sympathetic every-girl character in my eyes, which made the craziness all that more bizarre and entertaining to read! Her choices made me sad, and yet I was so entertained that I could not put the book down, which made me think… isn’t that what she was doing with her murder fascination?! However, the FMC gets crazier and crazier as the book goes on, and you begin to realize that her external problems are nothing to her internal issues. Even though I thought I saw the twist coming a mile away, there were still more surprises, and I audibly gasped at the end. I love books that end like that!

This story has a lot to say on the fascination of true crime, the danger of being a woman in society, and the stories we create about the people we think we know. While Hannah is more than a little questionable as a person, I felt that the narration was pretty honest about her shortcomings, which made her a little more palatable to me. This book was very entertaining and easy to read - perfect for a day by the pool when you want a dash of crazy and murder!

I ADORED this book and can't wait for Coryell to have another out! I went into not quite sure what to expect, but found it to be part mystery, part ode to women and feminism, and also a nod to true crime junkies everywhere. Hannah writes letter to Wesley, who's about to go on trial for murdering multiple women. She's angry and tells him all about it--to her surprise, she receives an actual response. They begin a correspondence, and even though she knows she know better, Hannah finds herself falling for him. Before she knows it, he's acquitted, and THEY ARE LIVING TOGETHER. Whoa! She is secretly pretty sure he really is a killer, and while she's a bit fearful, she also is high off the danger aspect (and also turned on). This author has a strong command of language and anyone who likes literarly-leaning books will appreciate that.

Hannah, felt like nothing was going her way - her career, her love life, and herself. She began to have an identity crisis. To pass time and feel like someone again she became obsessed with a criminal investigation. Where she eventually started sending letters to the killer. Eventually she became obsessed and wanted attention.

Hannah was a confusing character. Was she normal? Did she lose her sense of identity? Or was she just as psycho as the serial killer she fell in love with? It was a roller coaster. I did not expect the ending.

Wow Tasha Coryell really did something. I just didn’t want to put this book down. From the beginning I was hooked! Although I did have some issues with the character being kind of crazy, haha, it made it a thrill to read! I can’t wait for other books by her

Love Letters to a Serial Killer
by : Tasha Coryell
⭐️⭐️💫 (rounded to a 2 ⭐️ on NetGalley & Goodreads)
genre : mystery, who done it

what in the twisted minds did I just read….
I am truly speechless. Like what?!?!
Let’s just say this was an interesting book to say the least. I did guess the who done it but did not expect that ending…

anyway here are some main takeaways :

🤍 this was a really interesting plot. I haven’t heard of a book like this one before so I was definitely fun and fresh.

🤍 it was an easy and fast read. I was very intrigued on how this book would play out.

🤍 the main character? Idk whether I was suppose to love or hate her? Again, very interesting for the plot.

👎🏻 the ending. While it was a surprise, it was out of left field with no answers. LIKE WHOSE **** IS IT?

👎🏻 the main character. Again, was I suppose to love her or find her strange? I mean I definitely think she had a screw loose….


overall, it was a fast read that kept my attention. It truly was a cool fresh idea for the plot but I do think it fell a bit to flat for me in the end…

Thank you Berkley for the advanced reader copy !

tropes :
🔍 who done it
💌 love letters
🔪 serial killers
👩‍⚖️ court scenes
🥺 he falls first
🙅‍♀️ forbidden love
👹 stalker behavior

🏷️ #loveltterstoaserialkiller #tashacoryell #mystery #berkleypub #whodoneit #blythesbookstagram #bookish #bookishpost #bookreview

Thrilling with side of humor is how I would best describe this book.

A woman obsessed with helping solve the murders of 4 women finds herself falling in love with the man on trial for their murders after corresponding with him through letters.

Our MC, Hannah, is desperate to find love, and I sympathize with her so much in this aspect. She’s a bit obsessive, and at times I wanted to scream at her “What are you doing?!”

I enjoyed so many parts of this book from the serial killer aspect to the full on obsession that Hannah finds herself in. Watching her descend into this world of serial killer obsession is like watching a train wreck in slow motion as her life completely falls apart.

You have to sit back and watch her ignore red flag after red flag and just internally scream! (Let’s face it though, we all ignore red flags).

I do have to say, this has one of the best, most unsuspecting endings I’ve ever read. I was completely caught off guard, mouth wide opening, GASPING, as I read the last two sentences of this book.

This book hits shelves June 25th and I highly recommend if you love a good thriller/romance with a very shocking ending.

Thank You NetGalley and Berkley Publishing for sending me this ARC.

Love letters to a Serial Killer was quite interesting. It's the story of Hannah and how she gets involved with a suspected serial killer William. She first joins a forum to help the victims but ends up falling for the suspected killer. The one thing that I can say is that this was a ride. For Hannah to be in her thirties was naive and quite frankly immature. She blames a lot of her misgivings in life on the circumstances but most of the time she put herself in those situations. She picked horrible partners and wanted true love but never really found it. I'm not sure what the message was about for the murders and the women getting murdered but the story was trying to be a think piece and satire. The ending had me shocked and not in a good way. Overall the story did keep me entertained.

I received an ARC from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

Tasha Coryell's "Love Letter to a Serial Killer" is a riveting and unsettling investigation of obsession, justice, and the vague line between infatuation and danger. Coryell expertly conveys the compelling nature of true crime and the online communities that it develops.

Coryell deftly navigates themes of guilt, innocence, and the quest for justice. As I read the book, I questioned my own view of morality and truth. As I was reading this novel, it raised thought-provoking questions about the nature of empathy and the lengths one will go to seek closure and validation.

"Love Letter to a Serial Killer" is a haunting and suspenseful read that had me indulged. This book was different in a good way. It just had me shocked, and my mind was baffled. With its compelling characters, intricate plot twists, and chilling atmosphere, Tasha Coryell delivered a psychological thriller that lingered long after I finished the book. Which was a feeling I don't get often.

Thank you netgalley and read an excerpt for the ARC

This was a fun one! I enjoyed the plot and characters it was just nothing that stuck with me in this story.

Love Letters to a Serial Killer was such a unique read and I really enjoyed it! I did call what the twist was before it happened but I was definitely surprised by the ending and did not see it coming. This was an unhinged story in the best way and is perfect for true crime fans.

⭐️: 5/5
☕️: 3/5

Thank you Tasha and Netgalley for this book bc HOT DAYUM was she good or was she GOOD?!

HOT lawyer, William, was arrested for murder 🐦‍⬛ and the only logical thing 30 something-year-old woman, Hannah, could do was to write letters to him. Using writing letters in lieu of therapy, Hannah did not expect for William to write her back.
This book goes through the whirlwind of a long distance relationship between an inmate and a full-time working woman. There were ups, they were downs, there were were context clues that I realized too late lol

I very much enjoyed this book as it gave me criminal minds season 4 episode 2 vibes (if you know what episode this is, can we be friends?) I had fun reading from Hannah‘s point of view going through the trial as she continues to write letters to William. There were parts that I guessed, HOWEVER, the ending still surprised me! I personally could never imagine being in Hannah’s shoes unless his name is Spencer Reid or Derek Morgan, BUT I did love imagining Chloe Kelcher (see above with CM S4E2 😉) and imagine her POV through this (yeah yeah, I know Chloe’s backstory is different from Hannah’s but similar vibes I swear! 🙅🏻‍♀️) Overall, a very much enjoyed this, and I will be reading more by Tasha😘

This was such a great twisty suspenseful read! I could not put it down! Hannah, constantly in self-loathing mode, making one crazy wrong decision after another! I could not figure out the “who done it” the whole book! And the gasp I had on the last page…🫣. Such a great thriller read with a twisted and messed up love story intertwined. Read it!

It’s a great balance of unsettling curiosity with immersion into what if. I enjoyed the uniqueness and the potential for love and a very unlikely match. Some parts were a little slow but the curiosity and intrigue keeps you turning pages.

Wow. This one was a wild ride. At first Hannah seems somewhat relatable, but she becomes progressively unhinged as the story goes on. This book hooked me from the start and I could barely put it down. Great character development and plot twists. Typically in psychological thrillers, I'm analyzing the "bad guy", but this book had me psychoanalyzing everyone. Highly recommend this one for a quick and entertaining read!

When handsome Atlanta lawyer William is charged for a series of murders, Hannah begins to write him letters. Her letters which start out as a way to rage about her own failures and unhappiness with her life as well as the anger she feels over the serial killings of women just like her in their thirties soon form into something else. Hannah who had been so dedicated to finding the murderer behind the killings of these innocent women, soon finds herself infatuated and obsessed with an accused serial killer.

In and of itself, this book is very taboo in the way our main character deals with perhaps some would argue "shortcomings" in her life. Hannah places all of her focus and obsession on William who is in prison awaiting trial for the murder of various women. Regardless of what one thinks about the dynamics at play throughout this book, the scenario itself makes for a very interesting read. At times I found myself feeling bad for William who in most of the book is easy to believe really is the one who murdered all those women. Hannah was a deeply flawed and really annoying character... I found her unlikeable, but I was still engaged enough with the story and the character that I wanted to know what ultimately was going to become of her. However, it was the ending of last section of the book that I had the biggest problem with... I can't explain it but it just made my stomach turn in all honesty. Especially with Hannah's big "reveal" to the readers after she returns home to Minnesota... It sets up a possible sequel, but it only showcases how sick and twisted Hannah also is?

You always wonder what type of person would fall in love with a serial killer. Until you are introduced to Hannah. A tragically lonely person so desperate for someone to connect to. She has been recently dumped by another man after a string of meaningless attachments. To fill the void she finds friends in an online forum dedicated to finding out who killed several local women. There she is introduced to William, the man on trial for committing the murders. She decides to write him in prison and their relationship quickly turns into more than she bargained for.

I found this piece to be exceptionally well-crafted, and I'm eagerly anticipating the opportunity to delve into more works by this author. Given its potential popularity among our library patrons, we're certainly looking forward to adding it to our collection