Truly Devious: A Mystery: 1 (Truly Devious, 1)

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On Halloween night, Stevie, David, and Nate look around Minerva for a tunnel. They find one under the staircase. Stevie and David go inside while Nate stands watch. Inside, David reveals personal information about himself to Stevie that makes her feel especially guilty about her secret deal with his dad. She knows she should tell him the truth about the deal, but she doesn’t. They kiss. HUNTER IS DEFINITELY ON MY SUSPECTS LIST. I thought it was Dr. Fenton but she's dead now (or at least that's how the book ended) so she can't be a suspect anymore. Right.....? Agatha Christie meets Riverdale in Maureen Johnson’s latest, which offers two gripping mysteries rolled into one. Truly Devious adds a modern flair to that delicious classic mystery novel-reading experience in which every passage seems rife with potential suspects and clues.” — Chicago Tribune There are SO MANY suspicious people in this book, that I think I've just decided to not trust them all. Everyone's a suspect now (minus the crew cuz I really don't think they have anything to do with this). David is also being really suspicious but I don't think he has anything to do with the murders, though I could be wrong. I mean, I didn't think Ellie was evil, but look at how that turned out😕.

TRULY DEVIOUS is about your typical female slueth-in training who is pretty much a carbon copy of Pip from A GOOD GIRL'S GUIDE TO MURDER (except I liked Pip a bit more). Stevie, our annoying MC that overthinks EVERYTHING, decides to go to this boarding school for highschool age kids who are too smart for the public school system because of this kidnapping and murder that happened a long time ago. It's been a cold case for eighty years, and it's one of the most famous kidnappings in the world, but apparently she thinks that she can solve it. Time is an important factor in every investigation. The importance of time in an investigation is discussed in an engrossing manner in this book. and yet, sadly, i will probably just keep reading these, continuing to grow the hate in my heart like a reverse grinch. Johnson deftly twists two mysteries together—Stevie’s investigation is interspersed with case files and recollections from the Ellington kidnapping—and the result is a suspenseful, attention-grabbing mystery with no clear solution. The versatile Johnson is no stranger to suspense, and this twisty thriller will leave plenty of readers anxious for more.” — Booklist I’m giving my four mysterious, exciting, intelligent thriller stars! I cannot wait to read the sixth book! I’m truly devoted fan! I hope we can read more about Nate Fisher in near future!

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There wasn’t much happening and I got bored, the last chapters were good and maybe it is because things finally happened then and we got an explanation to one of the mysteries. I really want to close this series out, but I read the first two books so long ago that I want to reread them and then binge the rest. Let the games begin!! One of the worst things is when witnesses start talking to each other. As soon as you start talking to someone else, the story you have in your head changes. Human memory is rewritten like computer memory. You just get the most updated file."

But another fun thing about this book is that we get to see Stevie interact with all the other kids at this private school, and they are all truly possible suspects. Yet, the reader will also be left guessing how this new murder will correlate with the one from the past that was never truly solved.

Did we miss something on diversity?

That sounds like a great premise and it is but nothing really happens. We meet what felt like every student at the school(its a lot of people) and we get glimpses of the investigation into the mystery that surrounds the school and we get a brand new mystery that Stevie also investigates. It felt like both mysteries were B-Plots though. Truly Devious spends way more time on teen angst then on the murder mysteries that the book is allegedly about.