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The Girl I Used to Be
by April Henry
The story is a thrilling murder mystery, narrated by Olivia, formerly known as Ariel.
At the age of three, her parents were killed, and Ariel was abandoned at a Walmart. She was raised by her maternal grandmother until her passing when Ariel was seven. She spent years in foster care, then came a brief stint of being adopted adoption, then returned to foster care due to her behavior. You know - witnessing a murder and losing the only parent you had can do that to a child…
In current day, Olivia/Ariel is seventeen and working at a grocery store deli, her world is turned upside down when her father's jaw is found, revealing that he was also a victim rather than the murdered everyone suspected him to be.
Olivia returns to Medford, for her father's funeral, where she meets her grandmother's best friend and the suspects in her parents' deaths. She tries to keep her identity a secret to investigate without drawing attention from the murderer who left her alive. Despite her efforts, she is recognized by some of the locals, and while getting to know the suspects, she learns everyone seems guilty and have some form of motive for killing her parents.
This really was a good book. I figured out who the murderer was shortly before Olivia/Ariel did.
At the age of three, her parents were killed, and Ariel was abandoned at a Walmart. She was raised by her maternal grandmother until her passing when Ariel was seven. She spent years in foster care, then came a brief stint of being adopted adoption, then returned to foster care due to her behavior. You know - witnessing a murder and losing the only parent you had can do that to a child…
In current day, Olivia/Ariel is seventeen and working at a grocery store deli, her world is turned upside down when her father's jaw is found, revealing that he was also a victim rather than the murdered everyone suspected him to be.
Olivia returns to Medford, for her father's funeral, where she meets her grandmother's best friend and the suspects in her parents' deaths. She tries to keep her identity a secret to investigate without drawing attention from the murderer who left her alive. Despite her efforts, she is recognized by some of the locals, and while getting to know the suspects, she learns everyone seems guilty and have some form of motive for killing her parents.
This really was a good book. I figured out who the murderer was shortly before Olivia/Ariel did.