The One That Got Away With Murder - Trish Lundy

I love twisty murder mysteries, and this one had been on my Goodreads TBR for ages. When I saw that it was at my local library, I knew my time had come!
Lauren is escaping a tragic past, and ends up in Happy Valley (hate the name!), a town with it's own list of tragedies. Two dead girls, both in mysterious ways, and a pair of brothers each haunted by gossip of being guilty. 
Of course, Lauren knows none of this when she starts hooking up with the older brother Robbie. When she finds out, she intends to break it off, but of course everything begins to unravel when yet another tragedy hits....
Now, Lauren, Robbie and his best friend seek to solve the murder of three classmates, while dodging threats, friend drama, and their pasts. 
I'll admit, the murderer was on my maybe list pretty early, but Lundy did a good job leaving you guessing and questioning yourself throughout. But when it came to the reveal...it fell flat. There was no clear motivation, and it felt way too rushed. Hundreds of pages of 'who did it and why' only to end in, like, 2 chapters. Very anticlimactic for all the build up. And the romance between Lauren and Robbie felt unrealistic, and the trauma Lauren was running from could have been solved with a single conversation. 
It was good, but could have been better. 

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