Kisses and Lies by Lauren Henderson AND Me, the Missing and the Dead by Jenny Valentine

For those of you who have read, Kiss Me Kill Me by Lauren Henderson, I just finished the sequel Kisses and Lies. In the first book, Scarlett gets her first kiss from Dan who dies as a result. As she deals with this death, she discovers that it was no accident, that someone murdered Dan and used her to do it. In Kisses and Lies, Scarlett uncovers the secrets surrounding Dan’s death and with the help of her friend Taylor, she works to discover who really killed Dan. This investigation takes her to Scotland to visit Dan’s family. Once again this novel is Gossip Girl meets Nancy Drew and it is a great mystery. Although the ending suggests that there will be another book in the series, the mystery of who killed Dan is solved by the end of this book.

Me, the Missing and the Dead by Jenny Valentine is a book I picked up because it was short and looked like a quick easy read. It was a quick easy read, but this is also a great book. Lucas Swain is 16 years old and one day he walks into a cab office to get a ride home and there he meets Violet Park. The kicker is that Violet Park is old and dead. He sees the urn holding her ashes on a shelf in the cab office. After some investigation, he discovers that someone had left it in a cab nearly 5 years ago. Lucas feels that it is his mission to discover who she was and where she belongs. To complicate things Lucas’ father disappeared 5 years ago and no one knows if he is dead or if he ran off, but there has been no sign of him for five years. The mystery of Violet Park leads Lucas to the truth about himself and his father. It is a great mystery the way the pieces all fit together