Reviews by Category: Mystery

Teen Review
City of the Dead book cover

City of the Dead

By James Ponti
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Mia M.
Mar 1, 2024

City of the Dead is an adventure novel that follows the City Spies. They are a group of young spies that take on missions that adults can’t, and in this book they take on their most complicated mission yet. It takes them from the British Museum to Berlin all the way to Cairo. And, guess what, there’s a spy amongst the spies (better known as a mole). 

Teen Review
Promise Boys book cover

Promise Boys

By Nick Brooks
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Nithin D.
Mar 1, 2024

J.B., Trey, and Ramon, three students at Promise Academy, are the three main suspects in the murder of their principal. They want to clear their name, so they work together to prove their innocence and find the real murderer. This book is told from various perspectives, mainly the three main characters, but also some other characters. Throughout the book, you get different perspectives on life through the different characters. 

Teen Review
Monday's Not Coming book cover

Monday's Not Coming

By Tiffany D. Jackson
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
I Read for Fun
Mar 1, 2024

I have a confession to make. I first decided to read this because I thought it was going to be a story about the police’s neglect of the missing case of an African American girl and it was so different from that. That would have been wonderful but this was wonderful in a different way. Monday’s Not Coming is the fascinating story of a girl’s life after she loses her best friend, the person closest to her.

Teen Review
Good Girl Bad Blood by Holly Jackson

Good Girl, Bad Blood

By Holly Jackson
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Feb 16, 2024

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder: Good Girl, Bad Blood is a book series that follows Pip, a teenage girl who solves local mysteries. Despite saying her mystery-solving days are over, Pip falls back into the rabbit hole of mystery when Jamie goes missing the day of town memorial. With the help of her friend, Ravi Singh, Pip begins to uncover what happened to Jamie, discovering some of the town’s secrets along the way. Since the police won’t solve the mystery, it is up to Pip to find out what happened to Jamie.

Teen Review
Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

Where The Crawdads Sing

By Delia Owens
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Feb 15, 2024

Where The Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens, is a murder mystery-love novel that takes place in the marshes of North Carolina. The life of the protagonist Kya known as the marsh girl is on display showing her rough upbringing as her family leaves her and her father abuses her as she hides within the confines of the swamp. She meets Tate, they fall in love but Tate leaves for collage and doesn't come back then Kya meets Chase, the star of the small town but then Tate returns.

Teen Review
The Family Upstairs

The Family Upstairs

By Lisa Jewell
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Feb 14, 2024

This book was written using three different perspectives. The first one was from a girl named Libby, who had just turned 25. This was very significant for her because this was the age that she would receive an unknown trust from her parents. The second perspective was a character named Lucy. Lucy, barely getting by, has two kids, a violin, and no permanent home. The final perspective was a boy named Henry Lamb. Contrary to the first two perspectives, Henry narrates the story in the past (1980s). Libby and Lucy are dealing with the present.

Teen Review
A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder

By Holly Jackson
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Feb 14, 2024

This book focuses on two characters, Pippa and Ravi, and follows their journey of investigating the truth of Andie Bell’s disappearance and Sal Singh’s death five years before the present. Sal, Ravi’s brother, was convicted of Andie’s murder before he died. Ravi never believed that his brother was capable of doing this, so he worked with Pippa to prove Sal’s innocence. 

Teen Review
Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories

Miss Marple: The Complete Short Stories

By Agatha Christie
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Quinten
Feb 14, 2024

This Christie short story collection focuses on the titular Miss Marple, an elderly woman who has lived nearly her entire life in the same small town. In each of the 20 stories, she ends up in one way or another listening to a retelling of a mystery (often a murder) and, through her wealth of experience and observations on human nature, arriving at a solution that eluded the other party guests (or book club members, or detectives).

Teen Review
One of Us is Lying by Karen M. McManus

One of Us Is Lying

By Karen Mc Manus
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Feb 12, 2024

Summary: One of Us Is Lying is a gripping young adult mystery that unfolds in a high school setting. The story revolves around five students - Bronwyn, Addy, Nate, Cooper, and Simon - who find themselves in detention together. Simon, the creator of a notorious gossip app at school, was about to reveal devastating secrets about his fellow classmates, but suddenly dies under mysterious circumstances in the detention room. The remaining four students quickly become suspects in what turns into a murder investigation.

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