‘Not Exactly Chick Lit But…’: Taboo by Casey Hill

Posted By Leah on May 18th, 2011

We know this novel might be totally out of left-field and you’ll all be wondering why we’re featuring a crime novel on the site, but we have good reason because Casey Hill is the pseudonym of none other than the outstanding Chick Lit author Melissa Hill and her husband Kevin! They decided to team up and write a series of crime novels and I must admit, I’m excited. I love crime novels, and I can’t wait for Taboo to be released on 7th July 2011 (and a trade paperback is out at the end of this month). It sounds like a great read and I’m sure you guys will want to check it out because of the Melissa aspect!

Forensic investigator Reilly Steel, Quantico-trained and California-born and bred, imagined Dublin to be a far cry from bustling San Francisco, a sleepy backwater where she can lay past ghosts to rest and start anew. She’s arrived in Ireland to drag the Irish crime lab into the 21st century, plus keep tabs on her Irish-born father who’s increasingly seeking solace in the bottle after a past family tragedy. But a brutal serial killer soon puts paid to that. When a young man and woman are found dead in an apartment, the gunshot wounds on their naked bodies suggest a suicide pact. But Reilly’s instincts are screaming that something’s seriously amiss, and as more bodies are discovered, the team soon realises that a twisted murderer is at work, one who seeks to upset society’s norms in the most sickening way imaginable…