It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder

Where did you do most of your reading of this one, and did you have a blanket, a drink, or a holiday candle going while you did it?

What is the most dramatic thing you have ever witnessed at a holiday party, and how does it stack up against the Montgomery Christmas party?

Ella grew up on the staff side of a family that owned the town. When did that gap make you ache for her most, and did any of it echo something from your own life?

This book keeps twinkly lights and genuine dread in the same room. Did the Christmas setting make the mystery feel safer and more comforting, or did it make it creepier?

Small towns remember everything. How did it feel watching a whole town decide who Ella was ten years ago and never update the file?

Which moment in this book felt the most like being handed a warm mug, a small kindness, a quiet gesture, someone showing up? Tell us about the one that landed for you.

By the time you closed the book, had your feelings about Liam shifted from where they started, and what was the moment your heart began to move?

Without giving anything away, what did this story leave you believing about whether people can be forgiven for who they were at seventeen?