So far I’ve only read one Ashley Winstead book, but I have been wanting to read more for a while. I watch a lot of true crime documentaries with my mother, so I was intrigued when I read what This Book Will Bury Me is about. Today I want to tell you about this book and what I thought.

A big thank you to Netgalley and Sourcebooks Landmark for providing me with an eARC to read and review. This doesn’t affect my opinion in any way.

From the bestselling author of In My Dreams I Hold a Knife and Midnight is the Darkest Hour comes a chilling, compulsive story of five amateur sleuths, whose hunt for an elusive killer catapults them into danger as the world watches.

It’s the most famous crime in modern history. But only she knows the true story.

After the unexpected death of her father, college student Jane Sharp longs for a distraction from her grief. She becomes obsessed with true crime, befriending armchair detectives who teach her how to hunt killers from afar. In this morbid internet underground, Jane finds friendship, purpose, and even glory…

So when news of the shocking deaths of three college girls in Delphine, Idaho takes the world by storm, and sleuths everywhere race to solve the crimes, Jane and her friends are determined to beat them. But the case turns out to be stranger than anyone expected. Details don’t add up, the police are cagey, and there seems to be more media hype and internet theorizing than actual evidence. When Jane and her sleuths take a step closer, they find that every answer only begs more questions. Something’s not adding up, and they begin to suspect their killer may be smarter and more prolific than any they’ve faced before. Placing themselves in the center of the story starts to feel more and more like walking into a trap…

Told one year after the astounding events that concluded the case and left the world reeling, when Jane has finally decided to break her silence about what really happened, she tells the true story of the Delphine Massacres. And what she has to confess will shock even the most seasoned true crime fans…

Review

After losing her father suddenly, Jane loses herself into the true crime forums. I love how This Book Will Bury Me is written as a book. It was interesting that we the readers were being told the story. I can understand how Jane lets her obsession with this world take over as she’s trying to learn how to live in a world without her father.

This Book Will Bury Me is quite long and that does make the pacing feel slow at some points, but I did appreciate getting to know the characters she starts working with and the other aspects of the whole world of amateur investigators. I also thought that this book portrays media very well these days. They seem to be everywhere and want to uncover everything. These days I wonder if they realize how much they hurt people doing that as well.

The writing and story did keep me hooked and I was surprised how fast I finished this almost 500 page book. I personally didn’t see the ending coming and the ending was twisted but in a way I can appreciate. I will say that after reading this I learned it was partially based on a case that hasn’t gone to trial yet. If I’m honest, I’m not really sure how I feel about that.

That being said, I still enjoyed this book and how it was written. I will be looking into this author’s backlist to catch up!

This Book Will Bury Me had an aspect of true crime and I have to say I enjoy that in thriller. If you have any recommendations with true crime, please let me know. It’s something I’d love to read more of!