Serial

Serial by Casey Hill 2011 Thriller mystery

This is the first book in the CSI Reilly Steel Thriller series and I had already read two later books in the series. I enjoyed seeing how Reilly’s career began and recommend this story which answered many of the questions of why she moved to Dublin and her family past.

Reilly is a forensic investigator who has moved to Dublin to be close to her alcoholic father. While her superior is on vacation, she trains her young staff and investigates a series of odd murders dubbed the Taboo murders because the victims do something they never would do such as incest, homosexuality, cannibalism, and mercy killing.

She works with Detectives Chris Delaney and Pete Kennedy on the cases and wins them over. She also asks her tutor from the FBI, Daniel Forrest, an expert profiler, to help.

Hill allows the reader to tag along on the investigation, uncovering clues and analyzing them with the investigators. She also throws in plenty of surprises and makes the case more personal as it progresses.

In addition, pressure is put on to solve the case and her supervisor is called back from vacation to help or interfere. All the clues presented earlier in the story fit together like a puzzle and are resolved in a satisfactory manner by the last page. Danger increases until the final confrontation with the killer. For anyone writing a mystery novel, this is a good book to use as a guide on how to do it.

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