A quick scan through my Goodreads profile told me this is the eleventh book I have read by the author. I thought her name sounded familiar, but as I scrolled through her long list of titles, I literally had no idea I had read anything else by her, let alone 10 other books (I have been known in the past, and present, to read something because it is quick and easy, and not necessarily something I actually enjoy/want to read, so I can hit my yearly reading goal).

The Sorority Murder is about, you guessed it, the murder of a sorority girl. The lack of imagination in the title is a prelude to the lack of imagination in the storytelling. It centers on a retired US Marshal joining forces with a senior at an Arizona college working on his capstone project by doing a podcast on an unsolved murder. I was hoping for something witty, and different, and fun (like A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder), but this story was pretty boring, especially for something marketed as a mystery/thriller.

The characters were underdeveloped (the former Marshal had a HUGE life-changing tragedy that was completely swept under the rug, the college kid was whiny and super unprofessional and careless, and the sorority sisters were written as meek/stupid lambs being led to the slaughter (proverbial and real).

I’m surprised I finished this one, to be honest, but something in the back of my mind kept telling me it had to get better and that the story was going to take off at some point, and it just did not. Skip it.

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