1--What is the title of your latest release?
LOVE LETTERS TO A SERIAL KILLER
2--How did you decide where your book was going to take place?
I grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota and recently moved back after living in Alabama for 11 years. I always like to take the opportunity to set books in the Midwest and South, places that don’t normally get a ton of coverage.
3--Would you hang out with your protagonist in real life?
We would absolutely watch reality shows together. I think she would be obsessed with the Craig Conover and Paige DeSorbo break up.
4--What are three words that describe your protagonist?
Driven, paranoid, and lonely.
5--What’s something you learned while writing this book?
There are a lot more psychopaths than I thought, and the traits weren’t always what I expected. For instance, I didn’t realize that impulsiveness is associated with psychopathy.
6--Do you edit as you draft or wait until you are totally done?
I wait until I’m totally done. I’m more of big, structural reviser than someone who fixates on line edits. I’m very grateful for what copy editors do!
7--What’s your favorite foodie indulgence?
I eat breakfast sandwiches nearly every day. It’s so basic and yet, feels so indulgent.
8--Describe your writing space/office!
I have an office at home, but most of the time I write in a coffee shop that’s frequented by college students and old hippies. I’ve been going there since I was a kid.
9--Who is an author you admire?
I’ve been making my way through Karin Slaughter’s books. I tend to stick closer to domestic fiction and horror rather than detective fiction, but I love her depictions of the South (and that her characters, like me, have greyhounds as pets).
10--Is there a book that changed your life?
I used to reread The Edible Woman by Margaret Atwood each year. I first read it when I was 16 and it made me rethink what I could do with fiction.
11--Tell us about when you got “the call.” (when you found out your book was going to be published)/Or, for indie authors, when you decided to self-publish.
It was actually an email. I was in the middle of finishing my PhD dissertation about women in politics and my son was nine months old. I had no idea what was going to happen in my life. My agent lives in the UK and told me to call her as soon as I was up. This was two and a half years ago now, and I still can’t believe it’s real.
12--What’s your favorite genre to read?
I love thrillers, which is why I write thrillers. I’m also always on the hunt for a good romantasy series.
13--What’s your favorite movie?
Cruel Intentions is one of my all-time favorite movies. I think that comes out in my writing a lot.
14—What is your favorite season?
I love fall. I decorate for Halloween on September 1st. My son keeps asking to go to the apple orchard and I have to keep explaining to him that it’s only open August through October.
15--What’s a recent tv show/movie/book/podcast you highly recommend?
I bought Careless People, a memoir about working at Facebook, as soon as I heard about it. I can’t resist a memoir with hype around it and I love trash talk about the tech industry.
16--What’s your favorite type of cuisine?
I probably eat Mexican most often, but I order Indian food whenever I need comfort.
17--What do you do when you have free time?
I watch a lot of bad TV and cross stitch.
18--What can readers expect from you next?
I want to keep writing fun thrillers for the rest of my life.
An aimless young woman starts writing to an accused serial killer while he awaits trial and then, once he’s acquitted, decides to move in with him and take the investigation into her own hands in this dark and irresistibly compelling debut thriller.
Recently ghosted and sick of watching her friends fade into the suburbs, thirty-something Hannah finds community in a true-crime forum that’s on a mission to solve the murders of four women in Atlanta. After William, a handsome lawyer, is arrested for the killings, Hannah begins writing him letters. It’s the perfect outlet for her pent-up frustration and rage. The exercise empowers her, and even feels healthy at first.
Until William writes back.
Hannah’s interest in the case goes from curiosity to obsession, leaving space for nothing else as her life implodes around her. After she loses her job, she heads to Georgia to attend the trial and befriends other true-crime junkies like herself. When a fifth woman is discovered murdered, the jury has no choice but to find William not guilty, and Hannah is the first person he calls upon his release. The two of them quickly fall into a routine of domestic bliss.
Well, as blissful as one can feel while secretly investigating their partner for serial murder…
Thriller Serial Killer | Thriller Psychological [Berkley, On Sale: May 20, 2025, Trade Paperback / e-Book , ISBN: 9780593640289 / ]
Tasha Coryell’s debut novel, Love Letters to a Serial Killer, is forthcoming from Berkley (US) and Orion (UK) in 2024.
Her book of short stories, Hungry People, was published by Split Lip Press in 2018. Purchase Hungry People here.
Tasha holds an MFA in creative writing and a PhD in composition and rhetoric from the University of Alabama. She currently lives in St. Paul, Minnesota with her husband, son, and greyhound.
In her spare time, Tasha likes to run, cross stitch, and watch copious amounts of television.
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