Review: The Mystery Writer by Sulari Gentill

The Mystery Writer by Sulari Gentill

Blurb from Goodreads:

When Mia Sinclair-Kroner wakes from a coma, all she can remember are the movies she’s known and loved. Her college friends quickly assemble for a weekend party, in an effort to help her remember. But with old friends come old wounds, and it soon becomes clear that Mia’s accident might not have been an accident at all.

Was it Agnes, driven by her unspoken resentments? Or Zoey, who covets everything Mia has? Have the years apart only fanned the extinguished flame between Ethan and Mia, compelling him to violence? Or did Victor, who moved away, return with an agenda? Or was it Martin, the wealthy husband, who put a country estate between Mia and her past?

As old tensions and new suspicions rise, these friends must wade through their film knowledge, shared history, and everything that’s kept them apart in order to figure out which one of them is trying to end things once and for all.

My Review:

 

This was one of the oddest books I've ever read.  It was way too convoluted in trying to explain a ridiculous conspiracy of writers becoming assassins for a literary agency from the eyes of a budding novelist who gets in too deep.  I kept wanting more because the writing was interesting and I quite liked the characters but it just dragged on and on.  There is a lot of violence in this book and the ending was not satisfying at all.  I hope you have better luck!

Mystery Writer comes out next week on March 19, 2024, and you can purchase HERE.  

Theodosia Benton stood on her big brother Gus's doorstep, pausing to enjoy the relief of a long journey's end. But the breath she let out was snatched back as bedlam exploded onto the porch in the form of a massive hellhound of some sort. Though not, as a rule, frightened of dogs, Theo was unsure of her welcome, and tired, and still a little overwhelmed by the enormity of what she had done, and so she disintegrated a little, pounding on the door in tears and panic as the dog tried to raise the dead. A few neighbors poked their heads out to investigate what was apparently a murder in progress.

Gus Benton had been entertaining. After a few moments of scrabbling for clothes, he opened the door.