Dead Girls Don’t Write Letters by Gail Giles

Two thumbs up for an eye-catching title. In this succinct, fast-to-read novel, Gail Giles continues her noted style of getting to the point. Reading almost like a short story (I read it in one sitting, unusual for me) this book takes place mostly over one afternoon. Creepy but less dark than some of her works, “Dead Girls Don’t Write Letters” is about Sunny, the seemingly unperfect daughter amidst a family so dysfunctional they make the “Married…With Children” folks look healthy. Sunny’s older sister, the “golden child” has died. Father drinks, mother is a basketcase. But, as in all good mysteries, nothing is quite as it seems. The page-turning quotient here is high and the end is most certainly open to debate. Not a bad way to spend 90 minutes. A good choice for those who like a lot of mystery in compact form.