Having read and loved This Book Kills, I was intrigued to find out if Ravena Guron could write a further book with has much mystery and suspense has her debut novel. Oh my, she sure can! The scene is set - a stately home cut off from its surroundings in the midst of heavy snow storms. A wealthy family that really don’t get on with each other, a housekeeper and her assistant and two young girls whom end up stranded due to the weather, staying at the house over night. No phone signals, power cuts and the death of the wealthy Emily Vanforte, hidden passages, mysterious findings, guns. But, is it all has it seems! For fear of giving the game away, I couldn’t say more. Apart from, this book has more twists, turns and discoveries, than an average murder mystery. Written in such away that we see the story unfold for the main characters over 91 short chapters/extracts, captivating its reader and, arousing suspicions, whilst encouraging the reader to interact and solve the mystery with each page turn. Ravena is certainly writing a name for herself has a great author of Young Adult Fiction stories, but also has a Who-Dunn-it writer for a younger generation. Catch your Death is a fabulous page turner.

Oh my goodness, the twists and turns in this book! It's safe to say that I could never guess what would happen next and I loved it. The pacing of the book was fantastic at keeping me engaged and the multiple narrators added an extra element of intrigue. The setting had me hooked from the beginning, and this story's interactive notepad sections were unique and good check-ins, prompting you to take in all the evidence and information given at intervals. It's top-notch at building tension and with so many hints, clues, and red herrings along the way you can't help but question which (if any) of the characters you can trust... All in all a fantastic, fast-paced read, and a good fit for a YA audience. All the markings of a classic whodunnit with a modern twist.

The absolute level of depth and deception that ran through this book is wild. It was intricate and there was twist after twist.

My thanks to Usborne Publishing for an eARC via NetGalley of ‘Catch Your Death’ by Ravena Guron. In January I read Ravena Guron’s ‘This Book Kills’ and observed that while marketed as YA that it would appeal to mystery lovers of all ages. I would say the same about this second novel. It has a classic locked room murder mystery set-up as three teenage girls find themselves stranded at the grand Bramble Estate during a severe snowstorm and inadvertently stumble into a murder plot. Devi Mistry was on the way to visit her grandmother when the snowstorm becomes too much. She sees a sign for the Bramble Estate and has a vague memory that her grandmother had mentioned it as a hotel so turns into the property. When the door is answered by the posh Emily Vanforte and her daughter, Lottie, Devi realises that she has made a mistake and it’s a family home. While Emily’s husband, Charles, is all for Devi hitting the road despite the raging blizzard, Emily insists that she stays over. Meanwhile Elizabeth (Lizzie) Newton-Hill has been sent by her mother to hand deliver an expensive necklace to Emily Vanforte, who wants to wear it for the lavish family dinner that she is hosting that night. Again, the worsening weather leads to an invitation for Lizzie to stay over. Finally, Jayne Faraway works part time at Bramble and was helping the housekeeper, Mrs. Bromley, with the meal and given the storm she is also staying over. Emily Vanforte locks all three in the West Wing of the mansion ‘for everyone’s privacy’. Then during the dinner with only four others present, Emily keels over apparently poisoned. Alarmed that they are now trapped in a house with a murderer, Devi, Lizzie, and Jayne begin to investigate. No further details to avoid spoilers. The novel moves between various points of view and also includes transcripts from police interviews. The author and publishers give their readers an opportunity to play detective twice in the novel. While this didn’t quite work for me, it was easy enough to skip over. Overall, I enjoyed ‘Catch Your Death’ finding it an engaging mystery with plenty of twists. 3.5 stars rounded up to 4.

Eloquently written, it seems that Guran has taken a page out of the best crime writers' book into how to successfully build tensions. For me as an English teacher I teach my students how to recognise the rising arc and the climax and Guran has used all of these techniques beautifully, whilst adding her own twist. It is not the predictable Freytag's narrative arc that often is not successful in crime thrillers, there are slow rises, dramatic scenes full of tension that seem to be a climax, when the true one lies later. I loved this. I recommended "This book kills" to all of my students and now I know what latest book I will be recommending. This book was brilliant. I received the ARC of Guran's book 'This book kills' and loved it. I did not know the killer and thought I would not guess this killer either. I was correct and that is brilliant. It is brilliant because I want a book that has plot twists and red herrings. 'Catch your death' seems to be a homage to Agatha Christie's 'Three blind mice' in someways but out does Christie on the outcome and with unreliable narrators through the use of witness statements and the constant question of "what would be their motive?" I loved the interactive parts of this ARC which had the read write down who they thought killed the victim and the motive and opportunity. It also asked if the reader thought that the narrator of that chapter was lying or not? Then later on it asked again who killed the second victim and why? I was not fully correct in my first set of notes, which were the following: Devi was lying but not about the conversation, but her interaction with Douglas and that they might have known each other beforehand. Lizzie was the murderer using slow acting poison during the afternoon tea. Perhaps, her Dad did not die of a heart attack but died from the drug that Charles was selling. (Did she mean to kill him instead?) Then again my second set of notes were not fully correct: Jayne is the sibling. Lottie shot the victim after finding out their relationship was fake, for him. I guess you will have to read the book to find out which of my notes are correct. I received a complimentary copy of this book from #netgalley , thank you. Opinions expressed in this review are completely my own.