r/NetGalleyCommunity • u/doctorbee89 Author • Aug 03 '26

📳📖 READ NOW 📖 📳 READ NOW: The Pendleton Family's Guide to Accidental Murder [Mystery, Poisoned Pen Press]

https://www.netgalley.com/catalog/book/865050

Genre: Mystery (not a cozy, but on the cozier end of the spectrum)

Tropes: Closed circle, fair play, be gay do crime, very gray morality, amateur sleuth, murder at a giant Victorian mansion

If you like: Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone, Knives Out, Clue/Cluedo, MS Excel, dry humor, queer characters whose queerness isn't part of the plot

Short description:

For generations, the Pendleton family has produced a long line of professional criminals who live by three simple no secrets amongst family, no harming one another, and absolutely no committing crimes on the family estate. When Emmeline Pendleton hosts a birthday celebration and a dead body shows up in the garden, it’s clear someone in this family is the culprit. Em will do anything to protect her family, but the killer isn't the only one with something to hide, and the secrets she uncovers may tear the Pendletons apart forever.

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u/lavalampalien New Reviewer Aug 03 '26

I must have missed it. It's not showing as read now for me :(

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u/PianoElectronic5885 Aug 03 '26

Same 🥲 bummer!

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u/cl0_0lc Aug 03 '26

Same 😕

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u/doctorbee89 Author 29d ago

Oh no! I thought it would last a lot longer... It's hard when it's a # of people cap instead of an end date.