I received an eARC of this book from NetGalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

The first chapter of this book is a funny but terrifying way to hook the reader--Amber has just been kidnapped from her university's apartment complex and is now in the lair of a serial killer. Spoiler alert: she survives thanks to the help of Ski Mask, aka the sardonic Grace, who then leads her on a wild ride through Las Vegas to catch a killer. The subject matter is dark but buoyed by Amber's snark and the side characters she meets along the way. I wish more of Amber's past and cons had been explored, but I also appreciate the cuts to make this a shorter, tighter book.

This is a fun read if you have even a passing interest in true crime podcasts. (I'll end with an aside: there's a red herring moment later in the book that made me genuinely doubt our narrator and the information she'd learned, which is impressive.)