LOVE LETTERS TO A SERIAL KILLER by Tasha Coryell is a wild ride with an insufferable and irredeemable main character. As long as you don’t take it too seriously, you’ll be entertained by Hannah’s bad decisions, obsessive delusions, and harrowing consequences.
Hannah Wilson feels unappreciated. She works a mediocre communications job at a non-profit and fills the rest of her days with one quick obsession after another—diets, hobbies, exercise, men, etc. Her only solace is interacting with a true crime forum as they discuss the recent murders of four women in Atlanta. When successful lawyer, William Thompson is arrested for the murders, Hannah becomes intrigued with the young man. His proximity to the victims makes him the likeliest suspect, and Hannah believes he’s probably guilty. Yet, that doesn’t stop her from corresponding with him and then later attending his trial. As her obsession deepens, she finds herself in a new predicament when William is found not guilty. Now she’s playing house with a probable serial killer. And as she waits for him to kill her, she learns more about his brother, parents, and his childhood. She sifts through his belongings looking for clues. But what is she looking for? Does she even care if William is guilty?
LOVE LETTERS TO A SERIAL KILLER is a twisted tale, and some readers will enjoy the train wreck that Hannah creates for herself. Hannah is a complex, disturbing character who acts in ways that are self-destructive, selfish, and hypocritical. She is a mind-boggling character who has no self-awareness and is hard to like. The storyline itself has many interesting facets with William’s alleged crimes, the trial, William’s family members, and the twist at the end. Hannah intrigues us by making friends at the trial, stalking William’s family members, visiting the crime sites, and engaging with others she should not. You wonder who the real psychopath is in this story. The pacing is choppy in places, but this story has shock value and is overall entertaining. You may not like the main character, but you will keep turning the pages in LOVE LETTERS TO A SERIAL KILLER.
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…
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