This debut novel is a unique murder mystery that I found highly entertaining.
Written as a series of documents, emails, and text messages, this epistolary tells the story of a community theater group and a local alpha family and their efforts to help a young child get the experimental drug therapy she needs to combat a brain tumor. The group goes full on with fundraising for the Haywards but soon suspicions arise about where the money is going and if the little girl can be saved. Not everyone in the close-knit drama group is convinced and it seems that the flurry of emails back and forth between the members contains lies and manipulation. When one member of the group ends up dead, everyone is a suspect.
This was a very clever book and I had a lot of fun trying to figure out exactly what was going on. Once you get all the characters straight, you have to read very carefully between the lines as you act somewhat as a detective yourself finding inconsistencies in stories and developing your own theories. The revelations were subtly inserted into the various pieces of information and I loved that I was unable to identify the killer despite all the clues. The tension was palpable and the relationships between the characters quite complicated. I really liked the style of the novel and the way everything played out.
Thank you to NetGalley and Atria Books for this e-book ARC to read, review, and recommend.
This is a standalone and is not part of any series. A debut by this author.
Genre - murder mystery and drama
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