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The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin
4.5
emotional mysterious fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Great book! Despite loving murder mysteries, I never read this as a kid. Just read it as an adult and it’s definitely a fun little mystery! It’s a good puzzle that introduces lots of tropes of the whodunnit genre, and I think it will be the perfect intro to whodunnits for my own kids in a few years. 

My main complaint: The epilogue telling what happened 5 years and then several years later felt a bit tacked on; I would’ve liked to see a bit more character development along the way to solving the mystery.