If you like your SVH books lite on the Elizabeth and heavy on Jessica doing silly things until something Serious happens, you'll probably like this one. After getting herself into trouble at their internship at the Sweet Valley News, Jessica doesn't manage to leave work until 10pm. As she walks to the Fiat, she sees a guy carrying a green blanket. It isn't until an arm dangles from the bundle that Jessica realizes someone's been murdered. Steven's friend, Adam, is blamed for his girlfriend's death, but Jessica knows he didn't do it. And thus the first thriller is born.

Some people complain that the thrillers ruin any realistic aspect the SVH books had. Ha! Trust me, by this point Regina Morrow has already been held hostage and cured of her deafness; reality flew the coup long before this.

This isn't my favorite of the thrillers, perhaps because the only things tying Adam to the murder are painfully stupid. And I get that you have to go with what you're given, but still. Only an idiot, or someone really smart pretending to be an idiot, would kill their rich girlfriend and leave her body in their own car, along with the evidence, and then call the cops. Oi.

Bonus points for Lila's Watchman. That's just 80's fantastical. ( )

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