Admittedly I usually steer away from reading horror or thriller books because I would rather watch a horror movie. So when my friend suggested a book called The Sorority Murder by Allison Brennan, I was skeptical, to say the least. 

The book starts with a college girl in a sorority named Candace Swain. She disappears from a sorority party and was never seen again. Two weeks later her body was found and eventually, the case went cold.

Three years pass and a college student named Lucas Vega becomes infatuated with her case and tries to solve it for his senior capstone project. While he’s interning at the medical examiner’s office, he finds new details regarding Candace’s death and takes it to the police who couldn’t care less.

Once the police turn his evidence away he starts a podcast revisiting Candace’s life and urging people who knew her and may know anything about what happened to her to come forward. His podcast obtains the interest of Reagan Merritt, a former US marshal. She joins his podcast to share her expertise on what may have happened. 

Tips roll in and support the idea that Lucas and Reagan are in fact onto something. A person calls into the podcast with a tip and eventually ends up dead. Lucas and Reagan uncover some of Candace’s past which could point the blame on her sorority sisters for being involved in her death. Reagan begins to use her ties as a former US marshal to help, which leads to her finding out Lucas has an ulterior motive for trying to solve Candace’s murder.

Inevitably Lucas has to come clean about his real reasoning for his involvement in Candace’s death. But he has to come clean before Candace’s killer silences his voice once and for all.

I found the story hard to put down. I had been in such a slump with my reading before picking up this book. When I did I almost never put it down. I loved Reagan’s character and her relationship with her dad is so heartwarming.

Sometimes I had to put the book down and go on my phone because Lucas annoyed me, he reminded me of my younger cousin at times. I really enjoyed this book. I probably wouldn’t read it again just because at times Lucas could be unbearable but I would give it a 9 out of 10 and I would definitely recommend this book to one of my friends.