My Review of Trouble in Queenstown by Delia Pitts

Title: Trouble in Queenstown

Author: Delia Pitts

Published: July 16,2024

Publisher: Minotaur Books

Genre: Mystery/Thriller/Detective

Pages: 311 pages

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Review:

Wow! This was a wild ride but it was AWESOME! 

After a tragedy, a campus officer Vanity turned in her gun, and leaving the force she decided to be a Private Detective. The mayor's nephew Leo hires Vanity because he thinks his wife, Ivy is being stalked. She does her job and on the day that she is supposed to give her report, Leo calls saying he is sick and asks her to deliver the report to his house. When Vanity arrives at the house police officers are going into the house and Ivy is found severely injured and unresponsive along with the man he swears that was stalking his wife is found dead as well. Soon after the news that Ivy passed away on the table, and the investigation is short and determined that Leo was justified in killing the stalker and the stalker was the one who ultimately murdered Leo's wife case closed. 

Soon Sam, Ivy's father, hires Vanity to prove that Leo is responsible for Ivy's death. Slowly Vanity starts to investigate and she realizes that she missed so much the more that she investigates the more she gets into trouble and she and her loved ones are threatened and hurt. 

This story has so much in it. It covers problems family secrets, different ethical backgrounds, and people who use power in a community to hide their secrets! I loved this story and I was hooked from the very beginning! My review does not do this book justice and for that I am sorry but this one was one the better mysteries I've read this year! Soo good! Thank you Minotaur Books and Netgalley for the opportunity to read and review this one! It was an absolute treat! 

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