Pepper Brooks, a college student at NWU, seems to have it all: a wonderful roommate in her off-campus apartment named Liv, a cute Boston Terrier named

Literally Dead By Eryn Scott Book Review

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2021-09-27 17:00:03

Pepper Brooks, a college student at NWU, seems to have it all: a wonderful roommate in her off-campus apartment named Liv, a cute Boston Terrier named Hamburger, and a passion for English classic literature. On her way to a talk by a guest speaker, Dr. Davis Campbell, a Shakespeare enthusiast, Pepper finds herself in the middle of a murder mystery when he winds up dead in the office of Pepper's teacher and mentor, Dr. Ferguson (Fergie to Pepper), along with a cryptic Shakesperian note, and the suspects run wild.

This book has a wonderful cast of characters and suspects: “library guy” Alex (Pepper's reluctant crush), Professor Evensworth (Evilsworth to Pepper and her friends), “Naked Newt” the town's quirky entrepreneur with an oddly morbid sense of humor, and Fergie, Pepper's mentor and English professor with a zest for drama and hidden past. Set in a small New England town called Pine Crest, where everyone knows everyone, this book gives you all the fall feels!

I will admit this book reads like a Nancy Drew with a ton of references to her peppered throughout the novel (see what I did there). You may solve the mystery before the whole thing is over, but the characters are so rich and the budding romance with “library guy” Alex will keep you interested until the end.