Avail Yourself Suspect Narrated By Kristin Wolden Nitz Available As Audiobook

will by spending the summer helping at her grandmother's bed and breakfast in Missouri, Every summer at the BampB includes an elaborate mystery weekend, This year Jen's grandmother also hopes to solve the mystery surrounding Jen's own mother who has been missing foryears.


This was a fun fast read, I enjoyed the characters and the location Missouri has wine country!, I also enjoyed the sense of family that the book conveys, The mystery of her mother is also very good Whodunit is the million dollar question in this well plotted mystery.

The only thing I didnt like about this book was that at the end she goes out with her "uncousin" which I thought was really wierd.

Other than that I thought it was an exceptionally well written book that ends the elaborate plot with an unexpected ending.


I would reccomend this book to anyone looking for a mystery, A surprising YA mysteryromance: surprising because except for the mention of cellphones and Dockers, it could have been written in.
And maybe they actually had Dockers in, I don't know, Jen's dad, long divorced from Jen's missing mother Ellen, insists that Jen spend a summer working at the resort hotel run by his mother, really to keep an eye on Jen's Grandma Kay.


SPOILER AHEAD: Dad is convinced his mother is losing it because she has the wacky notion that Ellen is not missing but dead.
Jen tries to get to the bottom of this mystery, Seemingly by coincidence, Grandma Kay is sponsoring a mystery weekend at the resort, but in reality the situation in the fake mystery parallels the situation at the period during which Ellen went missing.
Jen gets to practice her acting talents and her Nancy Drew abilities simultaneously, As expected, there's an old boyfriend, Kent, and an old friend, Mark, who's almost like a relative, and a teenage seductress, Bri, as part of the mix.


The burgeoning relationship between Jen and Mark is Grated and kind of sweet, but Kent and Bri are never sufficiently developed to seem a threat on either end.
I figured out the solution to the mystery pretty early on, but the motive was a bit of a surprise to me.
The best part of the book was the lovely hotel in its smalltown Missouri setting, All in all, a pleasant, oldfashioned cozy adventure without much substance, Though far from a "Wow, that was stellar!" I truly enjoyed it for what it was: a fun, "I don't wanna think toohard, jus twanna be entertained, darn it!" read.
Think old school Clue the movie version based on the game meets Janet Evonovich for teens a secret pleasure kind of cheese.
: A Decades old mystery finally resolved, a love triangle and satisfying twist at the end, Jen's mother disappeared when she was just a child, and while she's considered many possibilities for the disappearance, murder was never one of them.
But when she gets sent to her grandmother's bed and breakfast for the summer, she finds out that her grandmother, who hosts murder mystery games for her guests, has begun to suspect just that and has designed her latest murder mystery game around the details of Jen's mother's life and disappearance in hopes of uncovering the truth.


The murder mystery aspect of this book was intriguing, but some other aspects fell flat.
The side story of a romance was rushed and underdeveloped, the domineering grandmother was irritating more than endearing, and the twist ending resolved a little too easily.
It's not necessarily a bad choice for those looking for a teen mystery, but it's not a spectacular book by any means.
I enjoyed this new teen mystery with a mysterywithinamystery, Here's my full review:

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If you have a free two hours read the book but if not do not waste your time.
The book was decent, far from anything I would rave about,
Also, the cover doesn't fall in line with the book at all! Seventeenyearold Jen has grown up not really knowing her mother.
After her mom ran off when she was just a little girl, the only contact Jen has had with her is short letters that arrived with gifts that arrived for her birthday and the usual holidays each year.
Even that seemed to stop a couple of years ago,

As she is finishing up her junior year in school, Jen comes to the rescue for Grandma Kay, the owner of a bed and breakfast called the Schoenhaus.
In fact, her grandmother has run the place for years and has become quite wellknown for the mystery weekends she runs on a regular basis.
Jen has always enjoyed helping out at the inn, she is not sure that she is thrilled be recruited this summer, particularly when she learns that Grandma Kay is going to use the mystery weekend as a chance to solve the family mystery.


Kay, who was really close to her daughterinlaw, never really wanted to believe that Jen's mom would have wanted to abandon Jen and her father.
Now, Grandma Kay has come to the conclusion that death was the cause of Jen's abandonment, and using the mystery party as an opportunity to refresh everyone's minds about what happened at the time of the disappearance seems like a great way to get to the truth.


To make matters even more complex over the summer, Jen's boyfriend Kent broke up with her right after the prom.
He was concerned that their relationship would not survive the distance that would come between them when he headed off to college in the fall.
This way, they could stay friend, You would think she would want to get away from that situation, but the confusion broadens when she runs into Mark.
Mark is her uncousin they share a Grandma Kay, but not actual genes as they are both part of a blended extended family like so many other kids in the modern world.


The two become closer and closer over the summer as Jen works at the inn and they get quite a few chances to hang out together.
Both insist they are just friends, though, because it would just be weird to be more.
When they are thrust into the starring roles as fiances for the mystery party, everyone including them can't help but admit that there is more going on between them.
Unfortunately, they may not be able to follow up on their feelings when the truth about Jen's mom comes out.
. . and they might not survive the big reveal,

This is a great example of a cozy mystery for teens, which is not really all that common.
The Echo Falls novels by Peter Abrahams are the closest examples in YA literature.
All of the players in the murder mystery party are quickly identified as suspects not only for the game, but also in the one related to Jen's mom.


Some of the suspects are better developed than others, but they definitely help set up an interesting background that seems to fit with the setting.
They were presented in such a way that I, an avid mystery reader, was totally surprised by the conclusion of the mystery.
There is no shortage of developing clues and distracting red herrings to throw the reader off the track.
I think those who were fans of The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin when they were in middle school will fine this to be a pretty interesting step up into the realm of high school reading.
this book was a pretty good book with romance, friendship, truth, mystery, and murder,
i recommend this book but it wasn't one of my favorites
Teenage murder mystery! You don't see many of these, and this one was well done.
There was a little romance, a lot of regular teen life, and the character interactions you would expect from real people who are missing someone important in their life.
I really hope Kristin Nitz writes more like this one! This was such a fun read.
The characters were fabulous, the story was original, and it was thoroughly entertaining, I will definitely be tracking down other books by this author, The murder

mystery weekend was nice addition to the story! It was like a murder mystery within a murder mystery.
Welldone.

My one and only fault was not enough crazy Beverly! I think if I were participating in a Murder Mystery, I would've been Beverly to a T.
Super competitive, interrogating everyone in sight, It'd be fun! I wish we would've gotten the reveal for the mystery weekend, that would've been the topper to a great mystery book.
Alas, we didn't quite get there, but no worries this is still a winner, I think I liked this more while I was reading it and then the more I thought about it afterwards the more issues I had.
Really I would give this,for "I liked it ok", The mystery fell sort of flat for me, I wasn't in love with any of the characters.
. . but there were some elements that were fun and I liked it enough to read the whole thing.
What this book did for me was made me want to join a murder mystery weekend at an inn.
. . that seems like fun.
Oh and two things that were sort of surprises that rubbed me the wrong way.
. . grandma gives our teen heroine wine to drink, . . first time I have ever read that in a YA novel, For some reason this bothers me but reading about teens drinking sneaking it behind the backs of adults doesn't.
And I actually have no issue with this in real life as my parents let me try sips of wine at dinner too so why in a book I'm not sure.

And also our main character texts while driving even though stopped in traffic and admits to promising dad she never would.
just seemed irresponsible on the author's part though other things that seem irresponsible never rub me that way, And I don't believe authors are supposed to protect their readers or anything like that, Very curious about me and my reaction, The book I am reading is called Suspect by Nicole Nitz its genre is Mystery, This book takes place in an old victorian hotel in Missouri, This hotel is a bed and breakfast hotel that is very creepy, The protagonist is Jen. She is a girl in her junior year of high school she spends her summer helping her grandma at her hotel.
The other important characters are Jen's mother Ellen and her grandmother Kay, Jen also has a few friends their names are Kent, Mark, and Bri, This book is mainly about Jen and when her mother runs away she is five years old.
Her mother still sends her stuff so they know she is not dead, But one time she doesn't send Jen something, Kay and Jen think that her mother is dead and was murdered, After a lot of thought Jen thinks that someone close to her might have murdered her mom.
I think the main idea/ theme of this book is to always keep looking and never give up.
I think Jen alway need to have hope that her mom was alive, I personally don't think Jen should have assumed that her mom was dead or murdered just because Ellen didn't send Jen a present or a letter.

I honestly thought this book was okay I didn't really like, While the book was interesting they gave out useless information about the mystery, The book was rather predictable and I knew what was going to happen at the end of the book by the middle of the book.
The author uses some very interesting literary techniques, The author uses mood and it has a very suspenseful tone to the book when the author states " The front door of the Schoenhaus swung open, and it was my uncousin stepped out onto the porch".
Although Jen's cousin stepped onto the porch and that is a good thing, the word swung is a good word to make you scared and think something bad it coming out.
If the Author said opened the door you would have been much less scared, The author also has a good sense in characterization like all of the characters are connected in a special way.
Like ex boyfriends and new boyfriends and best friend that are friend with ex boyfriends, I would recommend this book even though I didn't like it that much, This book would be good for people who like knowing what is going to happen fast.
For example this is good for people who like reading the end of the book before anything.

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