This was a fun mystery surrounding a family fortune and strange cases of murder. Shenanigan Swift is the youngest child living at the ancestral home and while she isn't sure her name fits her, she does get into a lot of mischief. When all the distant relatives get together for the annual reunion and treasure hunt, Shenanigan is convinced she will solve the mystery of what their great-great-great-etc. aunt did with the family fortune. Only, Great Aunt Schadenfreude is pushed down the stairs and near death, then another uncle is crushed by a large bust from one of the library's traps, and then another poor uncle is shot with a crossbow and dies. Shenanigan, with her cousins and sisters, believes that they can successfully determine who the culprit is and spare the family any more heartache. With a lot of wordplay, humor, hijinks, and more, this is a great middle-grade mystery about family and friendships and how your name doesn't have to define who you are. Reminds me a lot of the Mysterious Benedict Society.

In the Swift family, you are named using the Swift dictionary, and you invariably live up to that name.
When a Swift family reunion is called so the matriarch can make an announcement, everyone is shocked when an attempt is made on her life (and not from a bobby trap in the house) Will the attempted murder be solved? Will the Swift treasure be located? Is Shenanigan doomed to live up to her name, or can she forge her own identity? Lots of questions will be answered but will te mystery be solved. Fun.

This madcap middle grade murder mystery centers around Shenanigan Swift, a young girl in a most unusual family whose members are named after words in a dictionary. The word play around the names is fun and leads to questions about whether character is predetermined by the names chosen for them. There are several gruesome murders (appropriately described for 9-12 years olds but still very violent), a lot of allusions to relationships between various adult characters, and one of the main characters declares themselves to be neither a boy nor a girl. Clever, but not a book for everyone.

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the e-ARC of this book.

I so wanted to like this. I had heard so many great things about this, but it was a slog for me. I felt like it was a long lead up to the action, and didn't grab me the way I'd hoped it would.