Genre: Mystery & Detective

THIS IS WHY WE LIE By Gabriella Lepore

THIS IS WHY WE LIE By Gabriella Lepore

Short and Sweet Review When Jenna and Adam find Colleen O’Dell’s body floating lifeless in the shore, their small town is shocked, but things get worse when they learn this wasn’t an accident. When Jenna’s friend Holly becomes a suspect Jenna starts to look into things and knows she needs Adams help to piece everything […]

ALL THESE BODIES By Kendare Blake

ALL THESE BODIES By Kendare Blake

Short and Sweet Review It’s the summer of 1958 and a killer is leaving a trail of bodies along the midwest, and these bodies are drained of blood. Michael Jensen wants to be a journalist and his father is the sheriff in town. Michael never thought that the “Bloodless Murders” would come to his small […]

THE CORPSE QUEEN By Heather M. Herrman

THE CORPSE QUEEN By Heather M. Herrman

Short and Sweet Review Molly Green has lived in an orphanage and soon after the mysterious death of her best friend Kitty, Molly is sent to live with an aunt she’s never meant or heard of. When Molly meets here aunt she learns that she’s wealthy and she became wealthy by robbing graves and selling […]

WHITE SMOKE By Tiffany D. Jackson

WHITE SMOKE By Tiffany D. Jackson

Short and Sweet Review Mari and her blended family have just moved from California to Cedarville. Her mom accepted a job with the Sterling Foundation and with that comes a free house, one that seems to be haunted. The construction workers can’t seem to get out of the house fast enough and Mari’s younger stepsister […]

TWO CAN KEEP A SECRET By Karen M. McManus

TWO CAN KEEP A SECRET By Karen M. McManus

Short and Sweet Review Ellery and her twin brother Ezra have always heard about the town of Echo Ridge, because that’s the town their aunt went missing in. Now Ellery, is moving to a town she’s heard all about, to live with a grandmother she barely knows. Five years ago, the homecoming queen was killed, […]

ONE OF US IS NEXT By Karen M. McManus

ONE OF US IS NEXT By Karen M. McManus

Short and Sweet Review After Simon’s death you would think things at Bayview would be okay, but a lot of copycat apps have popped up since then. Now someone has made a game, Truth or Dare. Phoebe, Knox, and Maeve are sent texts to play and so are a few of their classmates, and it’s […]

THE BOX IN THE WOODS By Maureen Johnson

THE BOX IN THE WOODS By Maureen Johnson

Short and Sweet In 1978, at Camp Wonder Falls four camp counselors were murdered and the case was never solved. In comes Stevie, the new owner invites Stevie to come to the camp to help him with his true crime podcast about the podcast, Stevie agrees to this as long as her friends can come […]

DON’T BREATHE A WORD By Jordyn Taylor

DON’T BREATHE A WORD By Jordyn Taylor

Short and Sweet Review Present day: Eva doesn’t feel like she belongs not with her family or with her friends back at home, so she definitely doesn’t feel like she belongs at Hardwick Preparatory Academy. When Eva has the chance to join a secret society called the Fives she jumps at the chance to finally […]

LUCY CLARK WILL NOT APOLOGIZE By Margo Rabb

LUCY CLARK WILL NOT APOLOGIZE By Margo Rabb

Short and Sweet Review Lucy Clark has had enough of the bullies at her boarding school and after an incident her headmistress decides it’ll be a good idea to send Lucy to New York. There, Lucy will stay with her cousin Nanette and be an assistant to Edith Fox. Once she arrives Lucy finds that […]