Genre: Mystery & Detective

LET THEM STARE By Jonathan Van Ness and Julie Murphy

Short and Sweet Review Let Them Stare takes place in the small town of Hearst Pennsylvania, where our main character Sully is gender non-conforming 18 year old ready to leave this town in the dust. Sully has an internship lined up but on the day they’re supposed to leave the internship goes up and smoke […]

LIES ON THE SERPENT’S TONGUE By Kate Pearsall

Short and Sweet Review It’s been a little while since we’ve been in Caball Hollow, and the town is still recovering from what went down in the summer. Rowan like the other women in her family has a power and her’s is the ability to smell when people are lying, because of this she’s built […]

WHEN WE GO MISSING By April Henry

Short and Sweet Review When We Go Missing follows our two main characters Willow and Dare as they work at Finding Homes an animal shelter and also try to solve the mystery of a camera memory card that has hundreds of pictures of girls that seem unaware or frightened. I personally felt this book isn’t […]

MURDER LAND By Carlyn Greenwald

Short and Sweet Review Billie is living her best life, she works at an amusement park and got a promotion for ride operator. The night starts off well but when one of her coworkers dies on a ride when Billie shouldn’t have been operating it things start to go downhill. It looks like her coworker […]

MURDER BETWEEN FRIENDS By Liz Lawson

Short and Sweet Review Grace, Ally, and Henry used to be best friends until Grace gives a witness testimony in court against Henry’s brother Jake saying he killed their teacher. It’s been two years since Jake was put away and now he’s getting out because of a mistrial. Henry knows his brother is innocent and […]

YOU BELONG TO ME By Hayley Krischer

Short and Sweet Review Frances has always been content in her skin and with her small group of friends, but when she’s paired up with Julia one of the most popular girls in school for a literature assignment things quickly change in Frances’s life. Julia’s mother is the founder of DEEP, a skincare company that […]

THE NOTORIOUS VIRTUES By Alwyn Hamilton

Short and Sweet Review The Holtzfall family is a high ranking family and they have control over all of the money and magic in the entire country. Nora Holtzfall has it all and she knows one day she’ll be the heir, but one day comes sooner than she expects when her mother is murdered and […]

DEADSTREAM By Mar Romasco-Moore

Short and Sweet Review Ever since the car accident that took her best friend’s life, Teresa has been stuck in the house and it’s progressively gotten worse to where she won’t even leave her room. Teresa spends her time watching different people do their live streams and chatting with her streaming friends. When a popular […]

ACE OF SPADES By Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Short and Sweet Review Devon and Chiamaka attend Niveus Private Academy, where they both happen to be the only black students that attend. It’s their senior year and they’re both made prefects which will look pretty good on their college applications, but when Aces an anonymous person starts sending out texts about Chiamaka and Devon […]