Told in multiple POVs in both the present and past, Twenty-Seven Minutes relies heavily on the characters’ mental health issues to create unreliable narrators and further the suspense of what happened a decade ago. I am always wary of books that use this device in mysteries and unfortunately it didn’t work for me here. I would have liked to see the mystery of the night Phoebe died be shrouded by something other than someone’s deteriorating mental health, especially given that it seems everyone in town believed what was originally told to police on that night so there was no real need to tell this story.


I received an advanced copy through Netgalley in return for an honest review.