Murder She Wrote: By The Time You Read This I'll Be Gone

"Murder She Wrote" has always been one of my favorite shows. Stephanie Kuehn's book "Murder She Wrote: By The Time You Read This I'll Be Gone", a spin-off of said show, instantly had me hooked (by the title alone, let alone the description...and the contents). 

[""Killers walk among us. Statistically, at least one of them knows your name…"

Beatrice Fletcher is obsessed with unsolved murders in her small town of Cabot Cove, Maine like her great-aunt Jessica, the famous mystery writer. But when her best friend Jackson goes missing, this time the mystery is personal.

Then Jackson fails to show up for a late night meet-up, and instead, Bea stumbles upon three students from the elite Broadmoor Academy: overly-friendly and slightly vicious Leisl, her aloof twin brother, Leif, and Carlos, who knows more about, well, everything than he’s letting on. They’re worldly, secretive, and big on playing games like tenace, the hush-hush Broadmoor tradition where anything or anyone can be a clue to future fame and fortune, and players will stop at nothing -- including murder -- to get ahead.

If Bea wants to find Jackson, she too must join the game and play to win. Everyone in Cabot Cove has secrets, and it’s up to Bea to ferret them out before it’s too late in this thrilling modern update of the classic television show."]

I think Stephanie put it best when she said that Jessica Fletcher showed her at a young age that women can be "brilliant, successful, clever, and kind, and that it is far more thrilling to watch a woman solve a murder than be a victim of one." Jessica was a force (as was Angela Lansbury--who passed less than a week after this book came out). She was a teacher before retiring and wrote novels and solved crimes after her husband died, all at a much later age in life, showing that anything is possible at any time. She's just...a role model in so many ways.

And this book only continued on her legacy.

Bea was fabulous and steadfast in her passions and her efforts to protect her friend. It was fabulous and confusing and now I need the next book!

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