Getting Away with Murder by Shari Lapena

 Ted and Jill decide to murder Ted's brother to collect his estate valued at $45 million.  All the characters were greedy and mostly unlikable.  

Book was a disappointment.

2.5 stars.

The Lost Summer by Wendy Corsi Staub

 Three teenage friends agree not to tell when a fourth friend wants to disappear from her family.  They spend years wondering if she is alive and well, or whatever happened to her.  When the grown women meet up years later, the truth is revealed.

4 stars.

My Last Innocent Year by Daisy Alpert Florin

While at college, Isabel's "friend" sexually assaults her.  She then begins an affair with an older, married professor.

3.5 stars. 

Ms. Mebel Goes Back to the Chopping Block by Jesse Q. Sutanto

 Rich man wants to divorce his wife of 40 years because he's in love with their 24 year old chef.  Wife, Mebel, decides to go to cooking school in the hopes of winning him back.  While there, she discovers the parts of her self she's kept tamped down her entire life.

3 stars.

Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan

 Set in 1985 Ireland, Bill Furlong discovers a young woman locked in a shed on the grounds of the local convent.  She's a victim of the Magdalen laundry run by the Catholic Church.

Okay, so sad story, but almost all of it was about Bill and his life and not about the victims.  I seriously do not understand the hype around this book.  That this was shortlisted for the Booker prize is incomprehensible to me.

1.5 stars.

Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart

 A portrait of young Hugh "Shuggie" Bain growing up with an absentee father and an alcoholic mother.  Very sad.

Never would have picked this up based on the title.  It was part of a Goodreads challenge.

4 stars.

A Deadly Episode by Anthony Horowitz

 Hawthorne investigates when an actor is murdered on the set of a movie based on one of his books.  He and Horowitz discover the actor had many enemies, but which was mad enough to kill him.

4 stars.