Agatha Christie mysteries are my Sweet Spot. This book takes the tropes from those plots and subverts them for its own ends. It is a very original way to honor Dame Agatha, while winking steadily at the reader from beyond the fourth wall.
Belle is a ghostwriter hired to assist a self help author write a memoir about her troubled past. When that past comes back with a vengeance, Belle is excited to be asked by the female police detective to assist in her investigations. What follows is a twisty mystery where everyone is a suspect.
This is the first book I’ve read by this author. But it won’t be my last. I loved the wink-wink comments to the reader about common mystery novel tropes. Belle is a sarcastic witch of a narrator but it was fun hanging out with her for a while.
If you have read a bunch of mysteries like me, and are somewhat jaded at this point, pick up Sweet Spot. Its mystery is definitely a challenge and the snark is fun to read. 5 stars and a favorite!
Thanks to NetGalley and Kensington Publishing for providing me with an advanced review copy.