Book of Interest: Like a Sister

I can see why there are so many amateur detectives and not just in the fictional world. Because if the detectives and the police continue to ignore the case or don't put much effort into solving it. As well as continuing not to listen to loved ones of the missing or murdered victim, I can see how that would make someone feel like they have no choice but to try to solve it. Such as in this book, Like a Sister by Kellye Garrett.

I think this seems like an interesting mystery with Lena Scott trying to figure out how her sister Desiree died while possible uncovering family secrets she probably didn't want to know about. I do wonder how much reality TV will factor into this mystery since it's mentioned in the description a couple times.

Book: Like a Sister by Kellye Garrett

Description:

In this "tense, twisting mystery", no one bats an eye when a Black reality TV star is found dead—except her estranged half-sister, whose refusal to believe the official story leads her on a dangerous search for the truth.

“I found out my sister was back in New York from Instagram. I found out she’d died from the New York Daily News.”

When the body of disgraced reality TV star Desiree Pierce is found on a playground in the Bronx the morning after her 25th birthday party, the police and the media are quick to declare her death an overdose. It’s a tragedy, certainly, but not a crime.

But Desiree’s half-sister Lena Scott knows that can’t be the case. A graduate student at Columbia, Lena has spent the past decade forging her own path far from the spotlight, but some facts about Desiree just couldn’t have changed since their childhood. And Desiree would never travel above 125th Street. So why is no one listening to her?

Despite the bitter truth that the two haven’t spoken in two years, torn apart by Desiree’s partying and by their father, Mel, a wealthy and influential hip-hop mogul, Lena becomes determined to find justice for her sister, even if it means untangling her family’s darkest secrets—or ending up dead herself.