This Book Will Bury Me
Ashley Winstead
From the bestselling author of In My Dreams I Hold a Knife and Midnight is the Darkest Hour comes a chilling, compulsive story of five amateur sleuths, whose hunt for an elusive killer catapults them into danger as the world watches. It's the most famous crime in modern history. But only she knows the true story. After the unexpected death of her father, college student Jane Sharp longs for a distraction from her grief. She becomes obsessed with true crime, befriending armchair detectives who teach her how to hunt killers from afar. In this morbid internet underground, Jane finds friendship, purpose, and even glory... So when news of the shocking deaths of three college girls in Delphine, Idaho takes the world by storm, and sleuths everywhere race to solve the crimes, Jane and her friends are determined to beat them. But the case turns out to be stranger than anyone expected. Details don't add up, the police are cagey, and there seems to be more media hype and internet theorizing than actual evidence. When Jane and her sleuths take a step closer, they find that every answer only begs more questions. Something's not adding up, and they begin to suspect their killer may be smarter and more prolific than any they've faced before. Placing themselves in the center of the story starts to feel more and more like walking into a trap... Told one year after the astounding events that concluded the case and left the world reeling, when Jane has finally decided to break her silence about what really happened, she tells the true story of the Delphine Massacres. And what she has to confess will shock even the most seasoned true crime fans...
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Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for an ARC of this book in exchange for feedback. I struggle a bit with where to rate this book. There were times I really enjoyed it and others when it felt like I was reading a completely different book. True crime and internet sleuthing seems to be the trend right now and I’m seeing a lot of books come out with that as a premise. What I liked the most about this book is that it felt like the main character(s) were actually capable of solving the crimes they were investigating and didn’t just accidentally stumble upon a crime that needed solving. There was thought and logic behind how they approached the clues that made this feel a little more elevated than your average thriller. I also liked that the chapters were fairly short and rolled right into one another. It was difficult at times to pull away from the story. That being said there are a few parts of the story that did feel a touch slow and I think could’ve been trimmed more or removed altogether but even they weren’t enough to completely turn me off the book. Now, this books main murder takes place in Idaho and if you’ve paid attention the news in the last 2 years I bet you can guess which crime it’s modeled after so trigger warning if that case upsets you. I agree with other reviews that the murder in this book does resemble that crime a little too closely and I think more could have been done to set the fictional crime apart. That was part of the book that kind of lost me because I had read a lot of what was in the book already just from reading the news. The big plot twist was also easy to see coming if you paid attention to the beginning of the book. It didn’t make it any less satisfying for me but if you’re expecting so huge plot twist you might be let down. Solid 3.5 stars
0A fun read! Some of the big twists were a bit predictable just on the grounds of how books work, but not really to the story's detriment. I didn't call everything, and I still enjoyed the journey.
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