#5Books: Not your average book rec list

I seem to be in a mood for mystery and crime more than usual this week, given the different YA and romance recs I found. Check it out:

There’s the story of a hunting in trip that four friends return from, and any could have killed their fifth. What are they hiding?

The second asks: what do you do when a serial killer doesn’t exist? But you’re convinced that he does? I’m explaining it badly — just go read below.

I found — and I love that I’m typing this — an Australian urban fantasy set in Brisbane. Where a halfling has to save the world. Heh.

The fourth is a mystery of identity — two women’s lives intertwined with a man, who doesn’t seem to exist.

And last, a story about four friends in the aftermath of a school shooting, and a mystery involving the victims’ families that begins to consume them.

This is Our Story: When five friends go hunting and only four return, and any of the four could be the killer… it’s the beginning of an awesome mystery. Then there’s Kate, a summer intern at the DA’s office who is investigating the case, or to be more accurate making it go away — such is small town politics. Of course, Kate and her boss start investigating and so secrets start coming out. Small town politics are the best — they tend to be the juiciest stories, don’t they?

The Killer in Me: How do you find a serial killer that no-one else knows exists? Nina has and his name is Dylan. He has a girlfriend, and he’s devoted to her daughter and he’s perfect. Not a killer. So what convinced Nina that he was? Or is she going crazy? 

Vigil: Urban fantasy in Brisbane, Australia. I’m SO THERE. Verity is half human and half Weyrd. Whatever Weyrd is. Thing is she’s got minimal power but can move between the Weyrd world and the human one, and keep the former from being found out by the latter. So here is this halfling, charged with protecting humanity and stopping the end of the world. In Brisbane. Look, it’s Australian urban fantasy. I need to see what this is like!

I found You: The mystery in this blurb is done just right! Alice finds a man outside her house with no memory. Naturally, that means she’s going to take him home. Lily, in an entirely different town, discovers her husband of three weeks is missing. And then the police tell her he never existed. Did the husband fake his name? He must be the guy Alice found, right? How did he get there?

Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down: I am always unpleasantly surprised that school shootings have made it into novels — I can’t exactly explain why. In this, four students are dealing with the aftermath of a school shooting when the victims’ families start to experience house fires — and Nick, the son of the detective investigating the fires, starts to investigate them too. And, so that’s how the four friends begin to deal with the grief of the shooting and begin to break apart. I think, I want to find an author who make these events, not make sense, but make them easier to bear. I don’t even know if I said the right way. SIGHS. 

Which ones are you looking forward to?