The Killer in Me by Olivia Kiernan
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Released April 2, 2019
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A deadly past refuses to stay buried in Olivia Kiernan’s masterful new novel
Death is no stranger to Detective Chief Superintendent Frankie Sheehan, but she isn’t the only one from her small, coastal suburb to be intimately acquainted with it. Years ago, teenager Seán Hennessey shocked the tight-knit community when he was convicted of the brutal murder of his parents and attempted slaying of his sister, though he always maintained his innocence. Now, Seán is finally being released from prison—but when his newfound freedom coincides with the discovery of two bodies, the alleged connection between the cases only serves to pull Frankie further from answers even as it draws her closer to her town’s hidden darkness. With a television documentary revisiting Seán’s sentence pushing the public’s sympathies into conflict on a weekly basis, a rabid media pressuring the police like never before, and a rising body count, Frankie will need all of her resources if she is not only to catch a killer, but put to rest what really happened all those years ago.
A dark, irresistible cocktail of secrets, murder, and family, Olivia Kiernan’s latest is an impossible-to-put-down triumph.
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The Killer in My by Olivia Kiernan was an suspense novel that I honestly didn’t figure out until the very end who was doing the killing!
Often times, I have a very good sense of who the killer is in the stories I read, but I was completely stumped and didn’t see this one coming, even though after it was revealed I feel that the author left some clues for us throughout, that I probably could have picked up on sooner.
One that that I really enjoyed was the crime scene staging, because I could visualize exactly how they were placed with Kiernan’s descriptions and it felt like something straight from Criminal Minds or a true crime podcast. The killer was sadistic and out for revenge.
The Killer in Me is told completely through Frankie Sheehan’s point of view, I would have liked to see some from the killer’s perspective, but it was still very will written and kept me engrossed throughout.
Although, this is the second book in the series, it was able to be read as a standalone no problem. If you are looking for suspense and little romance, this might just be the book for you!
