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Asbury High and the MisTaken Identities
by Kelly Brady Channick
Series: Asbury High YA Cozy Mystery Series #3
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on September 12, 2020
Genres: YA Mystery
Pages: 269
Format: Kindle
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Also in this series: Asbury High and the Thief's Gamble, Asbury High and the Parcels of Poison, Asbury High and the Kidnapper's Drive, Asbury High and the Arson Avenger, Asbury High and the Captivating Cruise
With the official reopening of Brady’s and their sophomore year beginning, Maddie, Cornelious, Carly and Pilot are ready to shift their focus back to high school. Unfortunately, a month into the new school year many Asburyans find their bank accounts depleted, with no hint of foul play. Even the bank tellers insist that each withdrawal was done in person, with proper identification supplied and correct responses given to security questions.
Pilot, excited at the possibility of working with a cyber-crime, urges the gang to dive in—only to discover there are no traces of wrongdoing online either. Instantly intrigued, the gang decides to investigate the case before their own family’s accounts get hit.
However, with their successful sports teams, the continued growth and organization of the Pitbulls, possible new relationships blooming, dating and unrealized jealousies coming to the surface, the teenage sleuths find themselves more distracted than ever. After piecing together some clues, they wonder if someone in Asbury High is to blame for yet another crime.
Can Asbury’s favorite foursome figure out who is to blame before Asbury itself goes bankrupt?
Asbury High and the MisTaken Identities is the third book in an enticing young adult cozy mystery series that fans of Nancy Drew, The Hardy Boys and Scooby Doo will love.
Asbury High and the MisTaken Identity by Kelly Brady Channick is taking on another mystery with her four teenage sleuths solving crimes and becoming more like the Scooby-Doo gang with each story. The only thing that they are missing is their talking dog.
Can these four sleuths figure out who’s stealing people’s identity and their money?
The Sleuths
Carly, Maddie, Cornelius, and Pilot are starting their sophomore year of high school while hoping for a normal school year where they can enjoy going to classes and doing all their extracurriculars. Sadly, that isn’t to be the case when they stumble across a crime happening in both their town and their school nemesis Mainland’s turf. More on that later. Carly and Pilot are still dating and enjoying spending time with each other. She, Carly, is still into gossiping while being a cheerleader and studying her hardest. Carly and Cornelius also find out something important about Alexis in this installment. Pilot is always going to be our technology-driven guy that doesn’t do sports or anything like that.
Speaking of Cornelius, he is still playing football and basketball while trying to get good grades. Neal is a good guy who is still developing feelings for Maddie, and that is really cute to see that happening. Maddie is still playing soccer and basketball while studying hard and trying to do the book club. She is also babysitting her younger siblings still and whatever job that she can get at certain times. Maddie has multiple suitors that make Cornelius think about his feelings for her.
I love reading about these four sleuths as they remind me so much of Scooby-Doo, and I love how they work in their investigation when they can between everything they are all doing.
The Mystery
Someone in both Asbury and Mainland is stealing people’s identities and their money. How is the thief doing it? Along with how have they not have gotten caught by now? Apparently, it’s now up to our favorite four sleuths to get the job done of figuring out their suspects and motive. Along with how they are getting all of this information not to have gotten caught? All of these are good questions that have gotten answered in this installment. I got two of the suspects but not with how they were getting all of this information to do these heists at the bank.
Five Stars
Kelly Brady Channick has done another great job writing the third book, Asbury High and the MisTaken Identity, to one of my new favorite cozy mystery series. I look forward to reading these every time I see them come up. Ms. Channick has done an awesome job. I can’t wait to see what she does in the fourth book with the quartet’s next summer’s case.
Ms. Channick deserves this five-star rating along with a recommendation to anyone that loves Scooby-Doo and reading about teenage sleuths to give this series a chance. I loved it from the very beginning.
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About Kelly Brady Channick
For as long as she could remember, Kelly Brady Channick loved making up stories and leaving her listeners/readers on the edge of their seats.
Perhaps that’s why she always managed to talk herself out of trouble…
After graduating from NJ’s own Ocean City High School, Kelly accepted a basketball scholarship to Holy Family University, in Philadelphia. As a lifelong athlete, Kelly understands the importance of teamwork and overcoming adversity, something she hopes translates into her books.
Before writing page-turners, she taught first, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth grade — like a dessert menu, she simply had to test them all out. But her favorite job is the one she’s now doing full time: writing. Kelly loves to craft whodunit mysteries, leading readers through various twists and turns filled with red-herrings, hidden clues, and more peculiar characters than a reality show.
Kelly lives in South Jersey with her handsome husband, energetic baby boy, two cookie-stealing dogs, and an awfully smart cat.
Reading this book contributed to these challenges:
- 2020 Cloak and Dagger Challenge
- 2020 Craving For Cozies Reading Challenge
- 2020 Cruisin' Thru The Cozies Reading Challenge
- 2020 Goodreads Reading Challenge
- 2020 New Release Challenge
Thank you so much for reading and reviewing Asbury High and the MisTaken Identities. I’m so excited to hear how much you enjoy the series!