Review: You've Been Summoned

Publisher: Experiment 42

Pages: 376

Format: ARC

Buy the Book: Amazon

Goodreads:  A suspicious host. A skeptical guest list. A historical manor. Everyone’s hiding something. It's up to you to solve the mystery in this interactive puzzle.

During a long weekend in March, a group of twentysomethings from Virginia meet for an overnight costume party. For their venue, the host has rented the historical Sophomore a place where the most prestigious socialites of the 1940's and ‘50s partied until the celebrity owners mysteriously went missing.

The event began innocently enough: cocktail toasts, elaborate costumes, and exchanged pleasantries. But at the height of the party, Jane Parks notices her twin has vanished from the scene. It isn’t until Jane finds her sister’s body that the real guessing game begins.

That’s where you come in. It’s up to you, detective, to expose a present-day link between the victim, the guest list, and Sophomore Manor’s unsolved history.

Kritters Thoughts:  A unique story in the way that it is presented - through clues, interviews, files and so on.  The reader is being asked to be a part of the investigative team and review the files to find out why a woman went missing and who is responsible.  

There are actually two mysteries within this book, the current storyline as a journalist Jane is attending a party in this mansion in Virginia that her twin Sillian is hosting and Sillian is the one that goes missing.  The other storyline takes place in the past and a set of sisters move into this same mansion in arranged marriages of sorts and things happen.  While I liked the "Clue" nature of this book and the overt use of putting the reader in control of the story, in the end it didn't work for me.  What I wanted was more of the historical storyline and I wanted more about this beautiful home.  

I am intrigued to read this author's other book to see if same author different format would work better for me. 

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Disclosure of Material Connection:  I received one copy of this book free of charge from Netgalley.  I was not required to write a positive review in exchange for receipt of the book; rather, the opinions expressed in this review are my own.