True Crime Story

Mystery thriller with a smudge of auto fiction about the reevaluation of the disappearance of a young British university student, as told through various documents of interview transcripts and emails of her friends and family. 
This was a fun page turning mystery that had plenty of twists and turns.   As always I just love the mixed media for mystery books like this and I liked seeing the different points of view of the characters.  The autofiction part has the writer portraying himself in a fictional capacity was an interesting and original addition to the novel.  The characters themselves were complex with their own flaws and qualities that made them compelling to read on.  Despite the page turning effect that made me want to see what happened, the pacing was a problem for me. There was too much superfluous details in the characters' interviews, especially at the beginning, with too much telling (though it was because of the narrative style but I felt other mixed media books I read did that  better in that regard), with an ending I felt was too abrupt and a bit implausible. Some interesting plot elements and twists came way too late for me.  The writing was good but not incredible.  Overall, not a bad crime story but not my favourite mixed media mystery.