Book Review – Sweet Little Lies by Karin Nordin
Genre: Mystery
Rating: ★★★★★
Publisher: HQ Digital (2024)
Karin Nordin’s Sweet Little Lies (2024) immediately places readers in a high stakes suspense story that began at a high school homecoming dance.
Fifteen years later, circumstances require Lexi to readdress the trauma that stole her future, destroyed her family, and cut short her sister’s life.
After a jury convicted her ex-boyfriend for her sister’s murder and sentenced him to capital punishment, the case seemed closed.
Days before his execution date, he sent Lexi a message.
This note contained only one sentence, but it was so powerfully shocking that if true, everything she believed about her sister’s murder was wrong.
Lexi can’t go to her parents for help.
Unresolved grief over her sister’s death caused her mother’s addiction struggles.
Her mother said she wished Lexi was dead, not her sister.
Her father’s death certificate should list grief as the cause of his early death, but even the best coroners can’t isolate emotional reasons for a physical death.
Because of her great love for her sister, Lexi must see for herself if his note is true.
First one clue surfaces, then others.
Soon there are four prime suspects that could have murdered her sister.
Reasonable doubt nags at her conscience and leads her to believe that her ex-boyfriend probably didn’t commit the murder, but she’s not sure.
Lexi must decide how much she’s willing to risk for knowing what happened in those last minutes of her sister’s life.
The countdown for her ex-boyfriend’s execution continues, and so does the hunt for truth.
The author writes with such care in her attention to details that readers will feel like they could be one of the murder victim’s classmates or a close family friend.
Plot and pacing compel us to read Sweet Little Lies as quickly as possible to solve the mystery.
I unreservedly recommend that you read this fine mystery.
