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This Book Will Bury Me by Ashley Winstead
4.5
dark mysterious tense medium-paced

This Book Will Bury Me delivers true crime vibes, mystery and suspense, as well as a true thriller ending. I enjoyed this book from the start, which added to the fun as I often take a bit to settle into a novel. I have read all of Ashley Winstead's books and I'd compare this most closely to In My Dreams I Hold a Knife. However, the cast of characters is more diverse in age and backgrounds and I found the central characters to be much more likeable. 

After Jane's father dies unexpectedly, she drops out of college and starts looking for an escape from her grief. What Jane finds is an online crime solving community that gives her a found family and a mission, to solve crimes that the cops can't piece together. As Jane falls into a group investigating brutal serial murders on college campuses, things seem to come together and not add up all at the same time. 

I think this will appeal to many readers as it is well paced, tense, and full of consistent reveals. Winstead writes with much less social commentary in this book than some of her more recent titles. If you like a book within a book, found family, true crime, well paced thrillers, or any combination of those this is certainly worth adding to your TBR.