Murder Is Revealing by Michelle Corbier

An amateur sleuth uses her knowledge of crime novels to solve her friend’s murder in Michelle Corbier’s Murder Is Revealing, an engrossing mystery about shady business deals and dishonest scams.

Widower Dr. Myaisha Douglas started seeking solace in writing after her husband’s death; she’s a prominent member of the Greensboro Women of Color Writing Group, as well as a local physician. When a college friend, successful realtor Candace Knight, becomes financially involved in the group and announces that she’s published a novel completely out of the blue, Myaisha is pretty suspicious. However, events are about to take an even stranger and darker turn: Candace is killed in her office, and Myaisha is determined to figure out who did it.

Corbier deftly manages a large cast of characters in this well-paced novel about the stakes of learning the truth about our alleged friends. The novel impressively lays out this complicated dilemma through the fantastic, authentic character of Myaisha, who wants to uncover Candace’s connections to fraud, while also mourning their supposed friendship, which seems to have been based on fabrications.

The book builds to a genuinely startling conclusion – a shocking twist ending that surprises even the book’s cop characters, giving the book all the elements of a perfect mystery, and making it a superlative first entry in a new series.

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