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3.5

Jane, struggling from her father ‘s sudden death, finds solace in an online group who is dedicated to solving real life crimes. She has had trouble in the past fitting in whether it be a college or in her job and is welcomed into this group with open arms. She finds her niche and the group of four others work together solving crimes the police have trouble solving on their own. Their success of solving high profile crimes is featured on a dateline type show, which makes them a celebrity within the online community that comes with its pros and cons. The next big case comes up that the police are extremely inept at solving and the team jumps on it.

I like the idea of the online community and delving further into what I would consider the armchair detective scene. I personally am a huge fan of dateline as well as follow all the true crime and documentary shows . It was interesting to me to see this behind the scenes, armchair detective theme play out. The crime itself is very closely related to one that is currently in the headlines today. The fictional crime had so many details that were pretty much identical to the true crime that I questioned the reasoning behind why the author chose this route. Some of the details were almost identical to the case itself and became a distraction. I couldn’t discern between what was fact and fiction and found myself on Google several times. Once I got past all of the details of the case I enjoyed where the author went with it. The twists at the end were very good and I did not see them coming. I’ve read a few books by this author and have come to enjoy her writing style..

There is a lot of controversy circulating in regards to this book and the topic that closely resembles the Idaho murders. If this is something that is too soon to be read about then I suggest you skip this book, but I’m glad I I continued on as it did deviate from the headlines once it got going. Again, the author does address all of this prior to the start of the book so it might be a good idea to read that to determine if this is for you or if it will be triggering..

Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher, for my advanced copy in exchange for an honest review