Spotlight & Giveaway: Love Letters to a Serial Killer by Tasha Coryell

Today it is my pleasure to Welcome author Tasha Coryell to HJ!

Hi Tasha and welcome to HJ! We’re so excited to chat with you about your new release, Love Letters to a Serial Killer!

 
Thank you for having me!
 

Please summarize the book for the readers here:

Unappreciated in the workplace and feeling increasingly abandoned by her friends, Hannah starts writing letters to an accused serial killer while he awaits trial. The correspondence becomes romantic and Hannah travels across the country to get closer to her incarcerated boyfriend. She’s surprised when he’s found not guilty and gets down on one knee and proposes as soon as he’s released. Though she’s not convinced of his innocence, Hannah moves in with her fiancé hoping to find out the truth before she’s killed herself.
 

Please share your favorite line(s) or quote from this book:

“We never learned the exact time of Anna Leigh’s death—her body was too far gone for that—but forensic analysis suggested that as I unwrapped a frozen pizza that had been in my freezer for so long that I couldn’t remember when I bought it, Anna Leigh’s mangled body was being dumped into the ravine. Already, vermin had begun to burrow their way into her skin as I bit into my pizza and burned the roof of my mouth. This was not to suggest that being murdered and being shunned by a man that I wasn’t even in a real relationship with were equivalent, but to say that it was a bad time for a lot of us.”

Please share a few Fun facts about this book…

• Part of the inspiration for the book came from debating which supernatural hotties I’d go for like Edward versus Jacob, Damon versus Sebastian, etc. (personally, I go for Edward and Damon)
• I listened to the Twilight soundtrack a lot while writing
• I also read true crime & watched documentaries
• I’m obsessed with the documentaries about the West Memphis Three
• I was also captivated by Helter Skelter, The Stranger Beside Me, and Fatal Vision. Early true crime is so flawed in a lot of ways, but also really engaging.

What first attracts your Hero to the Heroine and vice versa?

Hannah thinks that she likes William because he compliments her, hasn’t ghosted her, is good looking, and rich.
The real reason that she likes William is because he’s an accused serial killer.

Did any scene have you blushing, crying or laughing while writing it? And Why?

I was definitely blushing when I wrote this scene between Hannah and the killer:

“We will have sex and then he will kill me and I will be memorialized like all the other women that came before me. There’s something so logical in this inevitability that it’s almost comforting.

He touches my clit and I wonder at the fact that my pleasure still seems important to him even as he’s threatening to kill me. I moan and don’t bother to parse the distinction between pleasure and pain.”

Readers should read this book….

• If you like funny thrillers
• If you’re a millennial who is frustrated with your job or financial situation
• If you like true crime
• If you’ve ever felt guilty about finding an evil fictional character to be hot

What are you currently working on? What other releases do you have in the works?

I’m currently writing another thriller that is also very romance heavy. If I had my way, all books would have murder and kissing.
 

Thanks for blogging at HJ!

Giveaway: A finished copy of Love Letters to a Serial Killer by Tasha Coryell- US only

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Book Info:

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…
 
 

Meet the Author:

Tasha Coryell lives in St. Paul, Minnesota with her husband, son, and greyhound. She holds an MFA and PhD from the University of Alabama. Her stories, essays, and poems have been featured in a multitude of journals, and Love Letters to a Serial Killer is her first novel. In her free time, Tasha can be found running, cross-stitching, and watching copious amounts of television.