This is my favorite read of the year so far! I loved the balance of the tropes in this book. The characters were lovable and fun. The twists kept me super engaged. Love love love!

Well this one was an adventure and truly starts off with a bang! I’m not at all a thriller type of reader but I’m trying to broaden my bookshelf. First and foremost, what drew me to this book was the romance aspect of it, no surprise there. But the synopsis also sounded intriguing.

Burying a body together, really does strengthen a relationship right?

Overall, I liked the book and was on the edge of my seat trying to figure out whodunnit. It’s a fast paced thriller that keeps you turning the pages. The dual timelines did come off a little confusing in some parts but it added to the build of the story and gets you invested in these characters.

I’m really glad that I decided to give No Body, No Crime a try as it got me out of my comfort reading zone. I would recommend giving it a try especially if you enjoy thrillers.

Thank you Netgalley for the arc.

I reveived an Arc for this book.
I really enjoyed reading it. Mel and Chloe are very interesting characters. And i am always a fan of badass female characters.
They were very sweet together. Even though they did kill a few people.
I did see the twists coming but they were great none the less.

While the timeline jumping was a little confusing sometimes, this was a fun read! I liked how Chloe and Mel balanced each other out. It was unbelievable plot wise but it was an enjoyable adventure romance/thriller.

Mel is tasked with finding Chloe, a girl who ran away from their small town years ago. However, she knows more about Chloe than almost everyone. The night of Chloe’s 16th birthday party starts them both on a path they never saw coming, and it has caused a rippling effect. The reason Chloe left at 18 originated with the events of that night. From the period after the night of her party to when she left, Chloe and Mel forged a relationship, and her friendship with the twins turned a little stagnant. In the present, Mel has finally found Chloe, but it’s not without its own heartbreak. While they are returning home, they are in a plane crash, and they still have to try to escape the forest. It turns out there’s even more going on in their small town than they realized. While this was a darker story, there were many moments that made me chuckle, like with the peacocks.

"Indestructible. Undeniable. Inescapable."

Murder brought them together, before driving them apart. Six years after Chloe's disappearance, Mel is tasked with bringing her ex home. These women might be good at burying a body, but can they bury secrets - and their feelings - too?

Set in a multi-timeline story, Mel and Chloe must navigate miscommunication, secrets, and bickering (yearning) as they try to solve the problems their teenage murder adventure set into motion. Most of the story takes place as the women try to get home after surviving a plane crash, and while there's plenty of flashbacks, I would have liked to read more about how Chloe and Mel bonded while murdering and burying Toby and how that bond blossomed into a romantic connection. Chloe abandoned her girlfriend, friends, and family for six years to protect them, but it's clear that the years spent apart did not diminish the love between Chloe and Mel. Our main characters embody bisexual chaos, and they're badass while they survive the dangers around them. There's plenty of action to keep the momentum of this story going. There's also twists and turns that will keep readers invested!

The real heroes of the story are Doris the peahen and her muster of peafowl. They'll eat a bag of dicks for breakfast.

Thank you Farrar, Straus and Giroux for the eARC via NetGalley!

TW: murder, guns, blood, death, child abuse, violence, substance abuse, addiction, cancer

While reading this one I often found myself trying to work out what would happen next and being pleasantly surprised often. Also the relationship between Chloe and Mel feels well deserved. I love it when couples rekindle their love through a crisis. This gave me Kiss Kiss Bang Bang vibes as far as humor and just the neo noir feel of the entire book.

Thank you NetGalley and FSG books for the opportunity to read this one early!

The last Tess Sharpe book I read was Far From You, published 10 years ago, when the YA sphere looked far different than it does now, and sapphic books were far and few between. We've come a long way since then, and so has Sharpe's writing.

By no means a perfect book (certainly my review copy had some edits needed, including a chapter that accidentally jumped between points of view), No Body, No Crime is a fun thriller and a marked improvement from her debut. With the quick pacing we don't get to spend too much time with anyone, but I still feel like the characters are well-developed enough to jump off the page. I could maybe tell you one thing I remember about each of the characters from Far From You, but No Body, No Crime's characters are certain to stick with me a lot longer, and feel more substantial. You can feel the weight of shared history, even when it has limited screentime — like the relationship between Mel and Nat Parker, which could be its own spinoff series. Sharpe deftly establishes relationships and lets you feel like you got to see them develop just from the place they are now (Mel and Gigi's friendship being a prime example of this).

I don't have much to say about the plot that withholds spoilers, but the time jumps are perfect and the plot strikes a good balance between reveals and relationships. It never feels like Sharpe is holding back too much or too little.

While I haven't read the books that came between her debut and this one, Tess Sharpe will always have a special place in my heart for writing the first book I ever read that actually had the word bisexual in it. Chloe and Mel are such binary stars that you wouldn't know about their attraction to anyone but each other, but still Sharpe makes an explicit point on their sexualities. Thank you again for the bisexual rep Miss Sharpe, it was a lot better this time <3

✨ Adult Sapphic Mystery Thriller
✨ Third Person, Multi POV
✨ 1.5/5 Spice Level
✨ Standalone
✨ Rep: PTSD, bisexual MCs

I recommend if you enjoy…
- fast paced narration
- mystery that unfolds with each chapter
- back and forth time jumps
- first loves that are in deep

Initial Thoughts
I really enjoyed The Girls I’ve Been by Tess Sharpe, so I was super excited to see an adult mystery thriller by Tess! After reading the first couple of chapters, I noticed a lot of aspects I appreciated from my prior read: fast paced narration, backstory given at the relevant times, FMCs who take matters into their own hands, etc..

Plot
Fast paced with plenty of twists and turns (some of which I guessed, some of which I didn’t). I would say this is mystery thriller, but there were definitely some action elements. I could picture everything as if it were a movie playing out as I read. The narration style made it difficult to put down, and I enjoyed how the time jumps felt relevant to the previous chapters versus being out of nowhere (making it easy to make connections).

Characters
The MCs are first loves who never really got closure… what can I say? I was rooting for them. Because they’d been apart for a while, it was interesting to see how they related to each other currently… even with all the added pressures. The side characters were interesting as well though were mainly there to support the narrative rather than being fully fleshed out themselves (not a bad thing, just noted).

Romance
This is not a romance, but there is a romantic sub-plot. I was invested, but don’t expect anything grand. The romance is an important part of the story even if it is not the central plot, ultimately.

Final Thoughts
Super pleased I decided to pick this up! I think I’m a fan of this genre by Tess Sharpe. Since I’ve only read the two, I can’t be certain, but I felt like I knew what to expect and wasn’t disappointed!

PI Mel Tillman takes on the case of investigating the case of her missing former best friend. Chloe Harper has been missing since the night of her sixteenth birthday, six years ago. Mel knows what may have caused Chloe to run because it was a problem that they got into together. Mel finds Chloe and they both are forced to run for their lives.

I had a great time with this book. It was fun and fast paced. I really enjoyed how the story unfolded using a dual timeline. Mel and Chloe are both fun and interesting characters on their own. The relationship between Mel and Chloe was complicated but their chemistry was sizzling! I have seen a lot of people comparing this to Yellowjackets and I can totally see that! Sapphics in the woods after a plane crash? Yes, please! This is my first Tess Sharpe book but I look forward to reading more in the future.

Thank you to Netgalley and Farrar, Straus and Giroux for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

i've always wanted to dive into tess sharpe's work after seeing so much positivity particularly around the book 'far from me', and so naturally i jumped at the chance to read this. a compellingly laid-out plot with dual timelines, slowly drawn out twists and the added joy of being equally compelled by both main characters, i really wanted to love this more, but i just don't think it's something geared towards me as a reader. the same dual timeline that i adore makes for a rough landing, as we're thrown into the deep end of a romance that the story reminds us of the passion and strength of much too often, leaving me feeling more worn out from the repetition than enthralled by their love story. i'm sad i didn't connect with this as much as i hoped, but i look forward to reading more of tess sharpe's work in the future!

This was suspenseful, thrilling, and humorous. Two bisexuals running in the wilderness, caught my attention immediately. The multiple POV and overlapping timelines made this novel feel cinematic. Like a very solid action-adventure film. Even the cover looks like a movie poster. I would've loved more action and some clarification at some plot details which could've extended the book by a couple of chapters, but the twists and premise were executed well.

No Body No Crime is a fun, sexy, sapphic thrill ride. I enjoyed the tension and build between the two main characters as well as the mystery unfolding in the foreground. Thanks to FSG for the gifted copy!

First impressions: I want an entire series of Chloe and Mel and the gang solving crimes. This is the wlw detective world of my dreams!

Chloe and Mel encounter one another on Chloe's 16th birthday, when they're both going after the same person who maybe also winds up dead and they maybe also cover up that they were involved. It ties them together forever, but that's okay because they realize there's more between them than they thought. Being in a small town means they keep their relationship secret, but then at 18 Chloe runs away without a word to Mel about why.

Six years and a lot of drama later, Mel, now a private detective, is on the hunt for Chloe. She finds her, but also finds a mess she could not have imagined, that she has just as much to do with as Chloe. What happens next is a wild and unexpected adventure ride to solve their problems, get out of danger, and maybe clear a future where Chloe and Mel can be together again.

I was completely ensnared by this story, and an action movie was playing out in my head while I read. This desperately needs to be adapted. Not to mention, we've got feral peafowl who come to the rescue, and the peahen in charge is named Doris. I love the mix of violence and hilarity, the fear that's contrasted by the absurd. I'm going to need to read Tess Sharpe's backlist and everything released from now on.

My thanks to NetGalley and MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux for the ARC of "No Body No Crime" in exchange for an honest review.

This is girl power with a vengeance. And a whole lot of good fun to read as two young women, burning for each other since adolescence, take on no less than a malignant family dynasty of men, all of them named variations of Richard. Do I even need to repeat the suitable nickname for this patriarchal collection of creeps? The book does......frequently.

Twenty something P.I. Mel goes on the hunt for the lost love of her life Chloe, who dropped out of sight not long after Chloe's eventful Sweet 16 Party. 'Eventful' is putting it mildly - the girls teamed up to bury the body of scummy, nasty drug dealer and all around odious human Toby.

But wiping Toby off the face of the earth put Chloe in the path of the all-powerful Newell family, a murderous clan of political power brokers, for whom Toby functioned as a minion. And Toby, before Mel and Chloe put him six feet under, stole something from the Newell men.....something they've sent out thugs to pry out of Chloe......or whoever might've helped her.

Action, suspense, and twists follow as Mel finds Chloe living off the grid in the Canadian backwoods. The two women can barely take a breath to rekindle their long delayed passion for each other,, what with the Newell nabobs and their goons hot on their heels at every moment.

As much as I enjoyed this book, I'm not sure what readers will make of the girls' climactic showdown with the hateful Newells. Clever, kind of funny and immensely satisfying? Sure. But convoluted, complicated, borderline silly and hard to swallow? There's a case to be made for that too.

But let's not quibble. I simply got a great summer reading experience out of this one. You can't help but cheer for Mel and Chloe, re-heating their heat while they confound, upend and outwit a basked of writhing snakes who woefully underestimated them.

I often struggle with books that go back and forth between history and the present, but it really worked in this one and didn't frustrate me. The story still flowed and chapters were the right length that I didn't get too impatient, though I could have done without the Rick POVs. I really liked the sapphic romance in this one and twist about their friend.

Tess Sharpe is a master of fun and twisty thrillers that keep you on your toes. I loved The Girls I've Been, and No Body No Crime is a thrilling new adventure with the same brilliant writing.

It's been six years since Chloe disappeared and Mel had to deal with the loss of the love of her life. Now Mel is on her track again but she's not the only one, while the secrets, and the body, they buried so long ago are coming back to the surface.

The two main characters feel engaging and even when they make decisions that don't feel... Like the most thought out choices, it still feels right within what we know of them and it's fully justified within the plot. I wish we got more of their relationship in the flashbacks to make it feel less like a trauma bond and more like an actual relationship but at the same time it would certainly slow down the plot.

Surprisingly enough, a lot of comedic relief came from the villains and that made them a weirdly enjoyable presence in the story.

I really wish this book was longer because it feels like there could have been so much more to this story, but at the end of the day it was still a fun ride.

I really enjoyed this book and I probably would have enjoyed it more, if I hadn't read it after a major reading binge. 3 books in about 5 days.

I was in a bit of a book hangover when I decided to pick this book up. I didn't read this with my normal fervor or speed, but that is not the fault of the book, but its reader. Every time I did pick this up to read a few chapters here or there, I thoroughly enjoyed it! It's a thriller, it's a romance, it's definitely worth picking up.

No Body, No Crime is a story about two girls thrown into each other's lives after one fateful night when they are 16. The story time jumps from the past to the present and is told across multiple POVs, but primarily sticks the perspectives of Chloe and Mel. I initially picked this up because it was comped to "Veronica Mars meets Yellowjackets" and I would say that is accurate. It definitely skews more Veronica Mars than Yellowjackets, but there is a large aspect of remote living and a drive to survive.

The chapters are quick and the story is tight and definitely keeps you wanting more. Twists and turns I did not see coming. I really liked this.

Super fun read! Both Mel and Chloe are fantastic characters. You can feel the tension between them leap off the pages. The plot moves along, there are several twists at the end (great resolution), and the back and forth between character perspectives and times keeps the mystery going.

"Murder either bonds you or breaks you.

Rural PI Mel Tillman knows this well. She's seen her fair share of bloody cases and botched cover-ups. But killing with someone? That is a different kind of mess all together, and Mel's got real experience with it.

No one's heard from Toby Dunne since Chloe Harper's sweet sixteen party--because the birthday girl and sixteen-year-old Mel buried him so deep in the backwoods, no one's ever finding him. Mel loses little sleep over it--Toby had been terrorizing them.

What she does lose sleep over is Chloe, the girl with whom she survived that horrible night in the woods. Chloe, the girl she fell in love with. Chloe, the girl who disappeared and hasn't been seen in more than six years.

Tasked with locating Chloe by her family, Mel can't resist the call of a good chase, or finding the one who got away with her heart (and with murder). When Mel finds an armed and vigilant Chloe living off-grid in a highly booby-trapped patch of Canadian wilderness, she realizes that Chloe had been expecting someone other than her ex to come looking for her. The thing that's kept Chloe going for years is that she's kept Mel safe by running. Now, the truth must come out as they run for their lives once again.

Because when they buried Toby Dunne in the backwoods, they buried something else, too. Something Toby took. And the powerful family he stole it from? They'll do anything to get it back."

Thanks to NetGalley and Farrar, Straus and Giroux for the free ARC in exchange for my honest review. All opinions expressed herein are my own.

Rating: 3.75 stars

Tess Sharpe is a master at writing multiple timelines in a way that keeps you on your toes and ever-invested. You want to fill in the gaps of the past just as much as you're invested in how the characters will get out their current dire circumstances.

In short, this is a story about two girls (now women) caught up in a web of murder, coverups, and survival. And they're so in love with each other it teeters on the edge of danger and salvation.

The story fell slightly short in a for me in a few ways. 1) I don't think the big bads were actually depicted as all that threatening and cunning, certainly not to the extent that would force a woman to be on the run for the better part of a decade. I wish I had been cowering in fear of them because that's what I want to feel from a thriller. 2) The first 70% of the book worked better for me than the last 30%. I think the ending was a little rushed and messy.

But overall, a fun read about murderous bisexual women out for revenge and justice 😈