He’s a bit of an outsider since his brother Declan is still a suspect in his long time girlfriend Lacey’s murder. Malcolm is dealing with a new step-dad and step-sister after his mother remarries. You would think this would be off-putting to a teenager, but Ellery is a professed true crime fan and wants to find out what happened to her aunt and to a neighbor’s daughter who was found killed. And Echo Ridge has had a lot of missing and or murdered people through the years. Through a long and tedious explanation, readers find out that Ellery’s mother Sadie is a twin as well, though her twin sister went missing. “Two Can Keep a Secret” follows Ellery and her twin brother Ezra as they relocate to Echo Ridge, Vermont to live with their grandmother. Maybe I have read too much Christie, Penny, Rule, and other books to find this one gripping. I maybe laughed in a disbelieving way when the guilty party is finally identified. Even though this is a Young Adult mystery novel, the actual mystery part should make sense and be intriguing. That said, there was not really anything suspenseful in this read. They don’t really care about the victims of a crime, they just want to play amateur sleuths and think they can find the guilty party. I didn’t like the two leads (Malcolm and Ellery) and the whole book really showcases why a lot of true crime fans like Ellery suck.
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