Week 50 Review: Assume Nothing

From Goodreads:

For a brilliant detective and an avid mystery reader, truth really is stranger—and deadlier—than fiction in a suspenseful and wickedly entertaining novel about the games killers play.

Kat McCann was six years old when renowned Austrian detective Alik Lisser solved her mother's murder. And unfortunately proved Kat's father as the culprit.

A decade later Kat is still obsessed with the heroic criminologist. She's also addicted to the bestselling novels inspired by Alik's ingenious deductions—penned by the grande dame of whodunits, who's a bit of a mystery herself. Kat has devoured them all. Even the one based on her father's crime.

When Kat and Alik fatefully cross paths again, a friendship evolves, and Alik is delighted to share the secrets of his success with such an eager and clever girl by inviting Kat to solve a murder of her very own. One that challenges everything Kat believes about the detective, an elusive author, and Kat's notorious past.

Now, as fact and fiction and truth and deception collide, it's all Kat can do to survive the shocking twist ending to her own life story.

My Review:
I loved reading this book! The synopsis sounded really good, to have her mother's murder being solved by a famous detective who had his cases novelised-where her dad was the killer? Yeah, I had to read her story, and it was so good!

I could really see Kat as a person, with her anxiety about crowds, and her love of mystery books, including Carissa Miller, the author that wrote a story on the case of her parents. That her home life is awful because her uncle is abusive and a drunk, but since he's a cop, and it's the 90's, her and her aunt just have to live with it. 

The dynamics between her and Alik where really interesting, because he wants her questioning things, to investigate. Her questions about her father's case, well, he wants her to ask those. Adding in this whole cast, an aunt who was Kat's mom's sister, Dev from the online group on fans of Carissa Miller, and a strange boy at school, this cast was so great, and I really enjoyed how they all dealt with the mystery. 

This went in a wildly different direction then I thought that it would, with the case that she has to solve? Yeah, that was pretty shocking, and I really enjoyed watching as Kat deal with it. It really took her to her limits, but I loved how she dealt with it! 

Loved reading this book, and I would love to read more by Joshua Corin! 

Author: Joshua Corin  
Read: December 9th, 2024 
Source: NetGalley 
Reason Why: Sounded really fantastic, and it's a SAC 2024 Book! 
Publisher: Brilliance Publishing
Published: December 10th 2024

5/5 Hearts

5/5 Books

5/5 Stars