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Thirty-year-old Sarah Jones gets caught up solving a murder in her new neighborhood after unknowingly befriending a dangerous con artist (who’s nothing like what she seems) in this playful, twisty mystery from acclaimed author Kathleen West.It feels like kismet when Sarah Jones, newly relocated to Minneapolis after abruptly calling off her engagement, gets invited to join a group of women who share her same very common name. For years Sarah has received all types of correspondence intended for different Sarah Joneses, but now it seems that this mistake has given her the opportunity for an instant community.What starts as a low-stakes meet-up called “The Sarah Jones Project” soon turns sinister when another local Sarah Jones is found dead, under suspicious circumstances, at the base of the downtown Minneapolis bridge. After fielding numerous calls from concerned loved ones ruling out their Sarah as the victim, the surviving Sarahs decide to take matters into their own hands. Aided by the dead woman’s nanny, a newly commissioned (and very handsome and eligible) FBI agent, and a cloistered nun with a complicated past, the motley crew of unlikely friends are determined to get to the bottom of the murder of one of their own.Between a budding romance and best friendship, Sarah feels like she’s in the right place at the right time, right up until the facts of the murder case begin stacking up too close to home. Can their team piece together where the deceptions lead before the killer silences someone else?
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Having a common name isn't always a good thing. Yes people tend to be able to remember how to pronounce it but is that really worth it? The Sara Jones club was created by a high school student as a consequence of bullying another student at school. But as the project was ending a Sara Jones, not a member of the club, is murdered. Now all of the Jones's want to solve the murder. I did like this book. I grew up in Minnesota and always enjoy books set there. It really made me think about identity issues too. It just seem so easy for someone to come up with new identities. And having a common name now doesn't seem like a good thing. I didn't like how all of them keep saying that they couldn't imagine the FBI being a real job. The made them seem like real small town thinkers even though this takes place in the cities. The progression was great and I liked the details of each Sara Jones's characters too.