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niks_bookshelf 's review for:
The Influencers
by S.V. Leonard
Budding true crime blogger and amateur sleuth Maggie Shaw is thrust into the limelight when there's a murder at The Influencer of the Year awards and she launches her first ever real life murder investigation.
Hosted on a luxurious yacht sailing along the River Thames, the awards ceremony hits the headlines for all the wrong reasons when star attraction Stella Knight is discovered dead in her cabin and was found to have been poisoned. Surrounded by potential suspects Maggie teams up with top influencer Reiss Rose to investigate the fellow guests.
Maggie's investigation soon runs aground when the yacht moors back in London and the police arrive. Determined to solve the case herself (and subsequently grow her following) Maggie with Reiss in tow continue their enquiries despite the warnings from the police to not get involved.
For me, I found once the plot left the yacht it lost a sense of urgency, it removed the element of a locked room mystery and being trapped with a murder. From that point on the story routinely cycled through a number of different suspects, all with solid enough motives for murder but it is not until the epilogue that the real killer is revealed and this will leave me questioning all thrillers I read from now onwards! Appearances can be deceiving!
Hosted on a luxurious yacht sailing along the River Thames, the awards ceremony hits the headlines for all the wrong reasons when star attraction Stella Knight is discovered dead in her cabin and was found to have been poisoned. Surrounded by potential suspects Maggie teams up with top influencer Reiss Rose to investigate the fellow guests.
Maggie's investigation soon runs aground when the yacht moors back in London and the police arrive. Determined to solve the case herself (and subsequently grow her following) Maggie with Reiss in tow continue their enquiries despite the warnings from the police to not get involved.
For me, I found once the plot left the yacht it lost a sense of urgency, it removed the element of a locked room mystery and being trapped with a murder. From that point on the story routinely cycled through a number of different suspects, all with solid enough motives for murder but it is not until the epilogue that the real killer is revealed and this will leave me questioning all thrillers I read from now onwards! Appearances can be deceiving!