Genre: Mystery & Detective

SUNDOWN GIRLS By L.S. Stratton

SUNDOWN GIRLS By L.S. Stratton

Short and Sweet Review Naomi and her family are going to take a vacation at their cabin in the Shenandoah Valley, but the family doesn’t know that this small mountain town, Sparksburg has a dark and twisted path. When they arrive Naomi can’t shake the feeling that something is off, she smells something horrible and […]

BETTER THE DEVIL By Erik J. Brown

BETTER THE DEVIL By Erik J. Brown

Short and Sweet Review When a teen comes home and learns that his family wants to send him to a conversion, he decides the best thing for him is to runaway. He’s been on the run for eight months and when he gets caught shoplifting he’s taken to the police station. He sees a picture […]

BETH IS DEAD By Katie Bernet

BETH IS DEAD By Katie Bernet

Short and Sweet Review Beth March is dead. Its New Years Day and Beth March has been found dead and her sisters are determined to find her murderer. Unfortunately the more the girls try to figure out what happened the more it becomes clear that each of them could have had a motive to murder […]

A MATTER OF MURDER By Tirzah Price

A MATTER OF MURDER By Tirzah Price

Short and Sweet Review Lizzie Bennet and Mr. Darcy are back at it again! This time they’re visiting newlyweds Jane and Bingley at Netherfield Park when, surprise surprise, a long-dead body is discovered stuffed up the chimney. The locals immediately claim the estate is cursed (because of course they do), but Lizzie and Darcy aren’t […]

RED AS ROYAL BLOOD By Elizabeth Hart

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

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

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

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

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 […]