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It’s always strange to say this about true crime memoirs but this is a gorgeously written book that will live with me forever which I loved. It’s for fans of true crime looking for the focus to be on the victim(s) and our society, without excessive graphic violence descriptions. Cristina Rivera Garza uses her sister’s murder in 1990 to spotlight femicide in Mexico. Twenty-nine years after Liliana Rivera Garza — a 20-year-old architecture student — was murdered, Cristina decides to get the files and follow the investigation, while also adding entries from her sister’s diary to show how a teenage relationship led to her strangulation in her home years later. The book also brings to light many femicide cases in Mexico and protests, shining a light on women trying to fight back against gender-targeted crime and how society has played a role in its existence and protection. If you read true crime memoirs, I highly recommend picking this one up to get to know Liliana and Cristina. Liliana’s diary entries are also a perfect snapshot of a teen girl’s life.

Victoria Villarreal does a fantastic job narrating the audiobook, which I listened to in one day.

(TW mentions rape cases the way the news does/ talks of femicide cases/ mentions case believed to be suicide that was later determined murder/ mentions partner sexual assault, not graphic/ partner abuse/ mentions brief threat of suicide)

This is the first book put out by Gillian Flynn‘s imprint! And if you’ve ever wanted a lesbian nun covered in tattoos who goes full amateur sleuth, here you go! Sister Holiday is not a nun with habits you’d expect from a nun: smoking, cursing, and throwing herself into an investigation. And she won’t have anyone messing with the home she’s finally found, so when an arsonists hits Saint Sebastian’s School, killing a janitor, even the New Orleans heat won’t stop her from finding who’s responsible in order to save the school from being shut down. Being an amateur sleuth mystery, and her not fitting in the perfect nun box, you know she’s going to become a suspect herself…