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*2.5* The only thing that kept me from DNF’ing this was the fast-paced nature of the plot, and while I did enjoy several of the twists, the amateurish-quality of the writing kept me from enjoying this even further. For a traditionally published work, there were far too many grammatical errors through......more

I really liked the twists in this, but there were elements that made the overall story not work as well as I’d have liked. Alden is slightly creepy, but I actually really liked his backstory and reasoning for training himself up as an investigator. He’s also a good kid trying to do the right thing.......more

I'm appalled by the sloppy writing I found inside this book. There were typos and varied grammatical errors. I'm not sure whether to blame the author or his publisher, but it read like a self-published book. Some of the errors I found: * One sentence had a space between the last word and the period.......more

This is a great mystery (murder mystery--or is it? 😉) for the middle school group. It's hard to find thrilling mysteries for preteens that involve murder or harder crimes than petty thievery but that are age appropriate (not gruesome, don't contain graphic violence or sexual content, etc.). This one......more

I was hoping for more from this novel, but I didn't quite get there. It was good, and a quick read, but wasn't much of a thriller. There was no point where I couldn't put the book down, or was really surprised by the events. Just a decent read.......more