I love the whacky series featuring senior citizens who local murders called "The Thursday Murder Club" by Richard Osman. He is starting a new series, and its first book is We Solve Murders. Osman writes quirky characters that get into ridiculous problems while trying to solve a tricky murder. He starts with a fresh cast. Steve Wheeler is a retired policeman comfortable with his well-ordered life. His daughter-in-law Amy works as a professional bodyguard for a high-end protection business. A mysterious trail of influencer deaths clusters around Amy. She needs to solve who is behind them and why before she ends up in jail or dead herself. She finds help in the unlikeliest of places. I'm going to like them!
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The Many Lives of Mama Love: A Memoir of Lying, Stealing, Writing, and Healing by Lara Love Hardin was recommended by my sister, and when I started reading it, I thought it was fiction. It begins at a desperate point where Lara uses a stolen credit card to stay in a hotel with her young son. She waits there for her husband to bring heroin for them both to get high. She goes on to explain how their drug use has dismantled her comfortable suburban life as she steals and lies to support their habit. This is about the time I realized it was a memoir. Hardin tells her gripping story of addiction, jail, and recovery.
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I have seen the Netflix series advertised, but I wanted to start with the book. I was surprised that A Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson was a YA book. The mystery: a five-year-old disappearance of 17-year-old popular high school student, Andie, becomes the capstone project for straight-A student Pip. Andie's boyfriend Singh is believed to have killed Andie, then killed himself out of guilt, but her body was never found. The deeper Pip digs, the more things don't add up. When she starts receiving threats to stop looking or else, Pip knows she's onto something. I liked this twisty story. The pace was good. My only complaint is never go to confront a killer alone! There are two other books in the series, and I'm excited to read them.
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