Reviews by Tag: murder 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.

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,

A Caribbean Mystery by Agatha Christie is a murder mystery novel. When Raymond

West gifts his favorite aunt, Miss Marple, a vacation in the Caribbean, she encounters a man with

a fascinating story. He apparently has met a murderer and has photograph evidence.

Unfortunately, Miss Marple never gets to see it because the very next morning she finds him...

dead. She has to figure out who it is the major saw and what connection he has to his murder. So

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson is the first book in the series. The case was

closed 5 years ago and everyone knew who the murder was and what happened. Sal Singh

murdered Andie Bell and then killed himself. If Pippa Fitz-Amobi knew Sal at all, she would

know he would never have done such a thing. She chooses to “re-solve” the murder for a school

project. As she finds more clues, she finds out that Sal wasn’t the murderer at all. Instead, the

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder takes place in Fairview, Connecticut where Pippa

chooses to investigate a closed-case murder in her hometown for her senior

capstone project. Pippa has a suspicion that the believed murderer of Andie Bell, Sal

Singh is innocent. Despite the overwhelming majority of the town believing that

Andie’s boyfriend murdered her and then committed suicide, she continues her