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Review of To Catch a Killer by Sheryl Scarborough

This was a beautifully written murder mystery that had a great twist ending. Scarborough ties in the main character’s own past trauma’s and needs to make this narrative believable.

Erin Blake was known as that girl. That girl whose mother was killed when she was a toddler, and she had to survive three days beside the corpse. She was treated as fragile, but Erin’s mother’s murder spurred her onto learn forensic science. Her guardian, her mother’s best friend Rachel, tried to save her from the trauma of the murder she couldn’t remember, but when Erin’s biology teacher, Miss Peters, is killed, she has to solve the murder.

When another of her classmates, Journey Michaels, is blamed for the murder, she wants to set it right. With the help of her friends, Spam and Lysa, they search for clues, and Rachel even brings in her brother, Victor Flemming, a forensic professional to look in.

Erin goes through the frightening scenes of almost being killed with these people and her smarts on her side. All while trying to remember anything about her mother and trying to find her father.

I, as you know, loved this book, though it was a little predictable for me. I am an avid mystery reader, and when I saw a key moment in the story line l was like “it’s them”. So, it gets a lower rating just for being predictable. To a normal person, it would be a good twist ending, but I had no feeling of happiness when I found I was right.

<p style=”text-align: center;”>★ ★ ★ ★</p>
<p style=”text-align: center;”>Four Stars</p>