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The Dysfunctional Family's Guide to Murder

by Kate Emery

A family mystery with everyone under suspicion

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A family mystery with everyone under suspicion

During a vacation at a remote farmhouse, 14-year-old Ruth finds herself investigating the murder of her step-grandmother, GG. Her familiarity with detective fiction shapes her approach, but the suspects are her own relatives—including Ruth and her sort-of-cousin Dylan. As they investigate, buried family secrets and possible motives complicate the case, while the family remains gathered under one roof. The setup combines a contained whodunit with family tensions and the challenge of weighing what Ruth knows about mystery stories against the people she knows in real life.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Teens and young adults interested in contemporary YA mysteries.
  • Fans of whodunits involving family suspects and hidden secrets.
  • Readers who enjoy a teen detective with a mystery-fiction enthusiast’s perspective.

Themes

Family secretsSuspicion and motiveMurder investigationMystery fiction and real-life crime

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Book overview

In this hilarious, contemporary YA whodunit, a mystery-loving teen finally gets a chance to solve a real-life crime. But solving a murder is complicated when all the prime suspects are related to you...

14-year-old Ruth was expecting a few fights on her family's vacation at their remote farmhouse. But she wasn't expecting a murder. And "death by typewriter" wasn't quite how she thought her step-grandmother, GG, would meet her end.

As an avid reader of mystery novels, Ruth is more than a little excited to have a real mystery to solve. (Though she's sad about GG. Obviously.) And she's read enough Agatha Christie that catching a killer should be a breeze... right?

With her annoyingly hot sort-of-cousin, Dylan, as the Watson to her Holmes, Ruth soon begins to uncover long-buried family secrets, finding that each of her relatives--her dad; her aunts and their partners; even, in the interest of fairness, Dylan and herself--had reasons to want GG gone.

But are any of them capable of murder? As tensions rise with everyone stuck in the house together, Ruth will have to dig deep to find out... before the killer strikes again.
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