Reviews by Category: Mystery

            Hot and Sour Suspects by Vivien Chien is a murder mystery novel. When Lana Lee and her best friend, Megan Riley, host a speed dating event at their restaurant, Ho-Lee Noodle House, things take a deadly turn. Rina Su, another Asia Village shop owner, matches with an unlikely guy, and goes against her friends advice and warnings. In the middle of the night, they get a call that Rina’s date… is dead.

As far as murder mysteries, this book is a stand-out for me. I loved the
little plot twist at the end, and how the whole book keeps you on your
toes. I think that people who read murder mystery books like to try to
guess the murderer and motive throughout the book, and this one does
not make that easy.

Death on the Nile by Agatha Christie is a mystery novel. The story takes place on, well,

the Nile, obviously. There is a tranquil cruise going along the scenic Nile River, when suddenly

the calm of the journey is interrupted by news that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the

head and her string of pearls are missing. Fortunately, everyone’s favorite Belgian sleuth is on

board the steamer.

In the previous book, A Good Girls Guide to Murder, Pip chooses to look into a murder case for her

senior capstone project and eventually, she learns the truth about the case. After finishing her

senior project investigating the Andie Bell murder case and releasing a true-crime podcast

documenting all her evidence and explanations someone Pip knows goes missing. Jamie

Reynolds, the brother of her close friend Connor goes disappears the night of the town's memorial

As Good As Dead by Holly Jackson is the third book in the series. The book starts out with Pip

in a very bad place. She still has trauma from Stanley's death in the second book. We find out

that she’s secretly buying sleeping pills from Luke, the drug dealer from the last two books. Pip

is about to head to college but a person keeps threatening her. The threats keep getting worse

Good Girl, Bad Blood by Holly Jackson is the second book in the series. Pip keeps telling

herself that she’s done investigating crimes until someone she knows goes missing. The police

aren’t going to get involved in this so Pip has to try and uncover this mystery. As she searches

for the missing person, she starts to uncover more secrets hidden in her small town.

Cassie is on the case again, but this time the case is hitting close to home. The case

Lia, Sloane, Dean, Micheal, and Cassie are trying to solve is a copycat murder of

Dean’s father. Dean’s Father was a notorious murderer and is in jail, but someone is

willing to take the risk of doing the same thing over again. Dean is going through a

ton with taking on this case, and he won’t stop until he gets justice for the families

held under the copycat hand of his father. The naturals won’t stop until Dean can

When Alex Easton is invited to his sick friend’s manor, he is a bit nerved by the haunted

landscape that surrounds what seems to be an even more haunted house. What’s even stranger

are the hares that roam the lands, animals that don’t run off but instead maintain a walk that

resembles a stiff human. Easton then meets with Roderick, who is overcome with nerves for his

sister, Madeline. He also meets with an American doctor who is supposedly tending to her

Pretty Dead Girls by Monica Murphy is a mystery thriller book. All the popular pretty girls in

school are getting murdered. So far, all of them were linked to Penelope Malone in some way.

She decides to investigate further in these murders, but as she tries uncovering more secrets,

Penelope is terrified she might be the next victim.

One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus is a mystery thriller book. 5 classmates at Bayview

High walk into detention. Bronwyn, Addy, Nate, Cooper, and Simon. Only 4 come out alive. By

the end of detention, Simon is dead. The five students in the classroom don’t know what

happened, all they know is Simon drank a glass of water then fainted. The investigators say

Simon’s death wasn’t an accident. A little background on Simon: He wasn’t the best person,