Hot Girl Murder Club, Ashley Winstead: A Review

Ashley Winstead never misses.

I've had this on my radar since she announced the title. The cover drop was STUNNING, and I was thrilled to find this in my inbox. If there's anyone who's moving immediately up my TBR list, it's Ashley.

This might be my favorite of hers yet.

A masterful execution of timeline weaving, POV shift, and crumb dropping, HGMC has everything you want in an edge-of-your-seat read. Hollywood elite doing terrible things. A pop star and her entourage of badass women building a network of support. Missing girls. Cold cases. A detective with a personal stake and a reporter who will stop at nothing to find the truth that matters.

I could not put this down,

What I think I enjoyed best about this story was the real world implications. This isn't your typical revenge plot with the bad guy receiving just desserts. Here, Winstead uses a personal story of grief to observe the shifting, interconnected power dynamics that exist between Hollywood elite and politics, between men and women, between the rich and the disenfranchised. It's a critique on the power of social media, how it can be used to shift public opinion or hide the worst crimes. And, more than that, it explores the morally gray decisions that shape our ideologies, how it is our choices that define us more than the construct of "good" or "bad".

This book will make you question pedestals and keep you guessing what will happen next to the very last page.