Genre: Mystery & Detective

RED AS ROYAL BLOOD By Elizabeth Hart

Short and Sweet Review Ruby has spent her whole life as a servant in the castle, quietly solving puzzles and playing secret chess matches with one particular prince… and then suddenly the king dies and names her—a maid—his heir. No warning, no explanation, just instant “congratulations, you’re queen now.” And of course the castle is […]

HOW GIRLS ARE MADE By Mindy McGinnis

Short and Sweet Review How Girls Are Made follows three girls Fallon, Shelby, and Jobie whose lives collide in a secret, off-campus sex-ed class that was never supposed to get this big or this dangerous. Fallon is the planner, the fixer, the girl who loves a good list. When her younger sister comes to her […]

THE SECRET ASTRONOMERS By Jessica Walker

Short and Sweet Review Copernicus has just moved from San Francisco to a small West Virginia town after the death of her mother, and she’s trying to find her place in a world that now feels too quiet and too small. When she starts leaving diary notes in the oldest astronomy textbook in her high […]

GIRLS WHO PLAY DEAD By Joelle Wellington

Short and Sweet Review Mikky Graves left his hometown of Prophets Lake to live with his mother and he didn’t plan on coming back. When his sister Kyla’s, best friend Erin is murdered he comes back for the funeral but seeing the state that Kyla is in he know’s he can’t leave and decides to […]

THE HOUSE SAPHIR By Marissa Meyer

Short and Sweet Review Mallory Fontaine is a fraud and she’s not ashamed of it. She and her sister Anais come from a long line of witches but the only ability Mallory has is to see ghosts. Mallory makes money by selling fake spells and jewelry and also giving tours at The House Saphir. Mallory […]

WE FELL APART By E. Lockhart

Short and Sweet Review Matilda has never met her father, Kingsley, so when she gets an invitation to spend the summer at his Seaside home, curiosity gets the best of her and she buys a ticket. When she gets to her father’s home he’s nowhere to be found instead she meets Meer her half brother […]

THE DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY’S GUIDE TO MURDER By Kate Emery

Short and Sweet Review Ruth is with her family for a little vacation at their remote farmhouse, she was expecting a few fights but not a murder, especially a death by typewriter. When GG, Ruth’s step-grandmother is found dead the next morning it really isn’t seen as the biggest deal as she was a bit […]

THE SCAMMER By Tiffany D. Jackson

Short and Sweet Review Jordyn is about to start her first semester in college and she chose to go to an HBCU, which has her parents heated but deep down she knows this was the right choice. Jordyn becomes friends with her dorm mates Vanessa, Loren, and Kammy and they quickly become a little family. […]

SEVEN FOR A SECRET By Mary E. Roach

Short and Sweet Review Sister’s Place was a group home on Avan Island in Maryland, seven girls went missing, but no one really cared to look into it. Nev has tried her best to forget about Avan Island and move on but when two men who ran the group end up dead, Nev decides to […]