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This Book Will Bury Me
by Ashley Winstead
After her father’s death, Jane distracts herself by getting involved in a true crime forum. She helps a group of 4 other internet sleuths solve a murder near her home in Florida so they invite her to their private Signal chat to get involved in more cases.
When a trio of sorority girls are murdered in Idaho, they blame the wrong suspect who is then beaten by vigilantes. “Lightly,” a member of the group quits because he thinks “Goku” and “Citizen” are too proud and released info they shouldn’t have. Three more girls in the town are murdered.
The 5 sleuths move to the town in order to continue investigating. Jane thinks the sorority house mother, Lizzie, killed the first girls and a copy cat killed the other three. Goku and citizen get a confession from a man to all the murders. Once that man is arrested, he has an air tight alibi (in jail). Jane and lightly realize Citizen committed the second killings to bring Lightly back to the group.
Citizen escapes the FBI, and Jane moves back to Florida. When Citizen reaches out to Jane she provides him with the location of the FBI safe house where Lizzie is staying. Lizzie and Citizen fatally stab each other.
Jane closes by revealing all this in her book to set the record straight even though she knows she’ll be prosecuted.
The twist was predictable. Red herrings are part of the genre, but still a bit too obvious. The sleuths quit communicating with each other, each following their own leads, once they moved into a house together in Idaho even though they should have been even more collaborative at that point. If they had all shared info with each other, they would have noticed the gaps in Citizen’s work. It would have made more sense if they weren’t all living together and eating dinner every night.