The "good" guys were definitely as bad as the bad guy in this one.
Tasia and Eleni help their mother run a boarding house in Odessa, business however has not been kind to them recently and when a stranger with a terrifying scar on his face shows up at their door one stormy night against their better judgment the girls agree to let him a room. When their mother returns later that evening she informs them that another murder has taken place, the 5th in a series that has plagued their little community recently. Now the girls are even more terrified of their strange new lodger and as his behavior grows more and more peculiar the girls set out to prove that he's the murderer even if they have to put their own lives at risk.
So I'm not going to give that first sentence away but seriously the girls, Eleni in particular, were kind of sociopaths. For a good portion of the book, I figured Eleni was the murderer. She was seriously cold-blooded. I kind of even wanted her to be, her sarcasm went too far even for me sometimes. It felt less like sarcasm and more like she had no emotions and she really pushed Tasia to do some pretty horrible things.
I really don't believe I have any complaints, it's super fast-paced given the length but overall the author does a good job of building up tension at just the right spots. And it was a surprisingly complete story. I was really afraid that since it was only 110 pages long there would be some serious plotholes but there really only ended up being a few and they didn't affect the overall story. Definitely recommend it for someone who just wants a really quick, well-written, mystery.
And as always thank you to Booksirens for the free eArc!
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