Felicity Morrow is returning to Dalloway, her prestigious and timeworn boarding school, for her (second) senior year following the death of her girlfriend Alex. The hallowed halls of Godwin house, her home at school, are rumoured to be haunted by the historical Dalloway witches. Felicity is dangerously drawn to their dark magic, although she fears she is cursed by the ghost of Margery Lemont, the most famous of the five Dalloway witches. But, perhaps it is the shadow of Alex instead.
Avery has just moved back into her car, and it’s not the first time in recent memory. But just when she seems to be hitting rock bottom once again, Avery’s life is instantly turned upside down when she inherits billions from the recently deceased Tobias Hawthorne, one of the richest men in the world – and a total stranger Avery has never even heard of.
After a traumatic incident involving a home invasion, Rachel Chavez and her mother move to New York City for a fresh start. However, Rachel doesn’t exactly fit in at Manchester Prep, her elite Upper East Side private school filled with the children of the ultra-wealthy. That is until she attracts the attention of the Mary Shelley Club, an exclusive secret club of horror fans determined to get their thrills by orchestrating their own horror-like “fear tests” on targets, namely their classmates.
Khayyam is a seventeen-year-old aspiring art historian, and in Paris for the summer. Back home her academic and romantic lives are in shambles, and Khayyam is certain her life as she knows it is being pulled out from under her, including her chances at getting into her dream college and her boyfriend – not that he’s ever described himself that way – Zaid. But all that changes when she meets charming Alexandre, the descendant of the famous writer Alexandre Dumas – the French writer who just happens to be the subject of her academic paper that judges so viciously debunked.
Daunis Fontaine is an eighteen-year-old biracial Ojibwe girl who has her future laid out ahead of her: playing hockey, attending the University of Michigan and going on to study medicine. That is before tragedy struck her family in the form of her uncle’s death and her grandmother’s stroke, which have cast an ever-darkening shadow of grief over her mother. But transferring to the local university so she can stay in town isn’t the worst thing, especially with the arrival of the handsome new boy, Jamie. Then everything in the new normal changes when Daunis witnesses a murder, and Daunis must reckon with an even newer normal where nothing is as it seems.
When their mom lands herself in a rehab facility, seventeen-year-old twins Ellery and Ezra are moving in with their grandmother in their mother’s hometown, a small Vermont town with a tragic past that began with their aunt Sarah’s disappearance as a teen. Ellery is a true-crime fanatic who hopes to solve not only the mystery of her aunt’s disappearance but also the murder of the town’s homecoming queen five years ago.
Five years ago, teenager Andi Bell went missing from the town of Fairview and was declared legally dead a few months later, despite her body never being found. Her murderer was allegedly Sal Singh, and everyone in town believes he did it. Now, high school senior Pippa wants to find out what really happened, and hopefully prove Sal’s innocence.
Recently I’ve been reading quite a few books from one of my favourite genres: mystery. Murder mystery, to be exact. So, I thought I’d share some murder mysteries for every type of reader, featuring a variety of mystery subgenres!
Continue reading Murder Mysteries for Every Kind of Mystery-LoverIn Brooklyn in 1998, after Steph is killed, Jarrell and Quadir mourn the loss of not only their best friend but his potential as a musician. So, with the help of Steph’s younger sister Jasmine, they endeavour to release Steph’s music under a new name: The Architect.
Awkward teen Stevie Bell is a true crime fanatic and amateur detective. So naturally, it’s a dream come true when she is accepted to Ellingham Academy, the elite Vermont school that also happens to be the location of the crime of the century: the Ellingham murders.
Sidbookreviews 
You must be logged in to post a comment.