Book Blurb:
High school junior Virginia Tillis isn’t jetting off to Florida for spring break, so she figures the highlight of her week will be sleeping in . . . until her eccentric Grandma Lainey shows up at her house and invites her merry band of retired actor neighbors to crash the party—along with Felix, Virginia’s new long-distance boyfriend.
When the entire group takes a ride on a murder mystery train run by her grandmother’s old friend Teddy, they expect to solve a fictional crime in theatrical style—until the leading lady vanishes. Did Teddy do away with his co-star? Or is there another culprit on this mystery train?
With a storm closing in and suspects galore, Virginia, Felix, and their golden age crew have to figure out what happened to the missing actress, clear Teddy’s name, and decide if dating someone in a different state is worth the aggravation . . . before they reach the end of the line and spring break is dead in its tracks.
Tropes:
*Netgalley ARC *Cozy Mystery *Teen/YA *closed room situation *forced proximity
*trip gone wrong *Teen romance *Who Dunit? *Amateur detective *Quirky side characters
Thoughts:
Virginia not wanting to go with her mom and her fiance on their trip ends up spending spring break with her grandmother... but her grandma has a surprise they are going on an adventure with her partner and her actor friends... best of all Virginia's long-distance boyfriend Felix is coming along too! Spring Break is looking great.
This is book 2 in the series but can be read as a stand alone, I didn't read book 1 and there are some mentions of book 1 with some spoilers so I would recommend reading them in order.
The group meets up with more of Grandma Lainey's actor friends on their trip and everything starts out as expected on a fun mystery train... until things go off script and now there is an actual missing woman... could this be murder? Will the group be able to figure out what happened?
This was a cute cozy mystery with Virginia and Felix doing their best to help the rest of the group solve the mystery... while occasionally sneaking off for kisses.
Due to being on a train together there could only be so many suspects... but did anyone have the motive? Could it be her soon to be ex-husband? or her current boyfriend who is co-star of this mystery train? Or maybe even the reporter who went to high school with her?
There is an actual detective on the train but since we get the mystery from Virginia's side we don't really know how far along the detective was in the case.
Teddy (the current boyfriend of the missing woman) was obnoxious and self centered he had been in a popular tv show and acted as if everyone should give him a standing ovation any time he came into the room... are you even that concerned your girlfriend is missing?
The pacing was kind of off for me with a lot of places that felt slower where there didn't seem to be any forward progression in the plot.
Have you read this one? What did you think?
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