Mr. Kiss and Tell (Veronica Mars #2)

  • Author: Rob Thomas and Jennifer Graham
  • Page count: 336
  • Started on: 2026/05/23
  • Finished on: 2026/06/15
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    • ★★★☆☆

Cover art for “Veronica Mars: Mr. Kiss and Tell” by Rob Thomas and Jennifer Graham, showing a dimly lit motel-room door with a hanging key tag and a shadowy figure behind the title text.

This is the second - and so far last - book about a private investigator in a Southern Californian coastal town. The books are based on a TV-series starring Kristen Bell, and are set between the Veronica Mars movie and its 2019 revival season. Mr. Kiss and Tell follows a few months after the events of The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line, with Veronica now working alongside her dad at Mars Investigations.

Veronica is hired by the Neptune Grand hotel to investigate a brutal assault, and the case leads her into the familiar Mars territory of wealth inequality, crime across class lines, corruption at the sheriff’s office, and Veronica’s complicated love for Logan.

I love how this book picks up an annoying loose thread from the TV show: whatever happened to Grace Manning (Meg’s younger sister)? Unfortunately the book’s main plot didn’t grip me very much, and Veronica herself is all over the place - in an annoying way. Wallace and Mac also feel too much like caricatures this time around. The narration by Rebecca Lowman was fine, but a notch below Kristen Bell’s narration in book 1. I really hope that the final season of the TV show (which is set a few years after the events of this book) finishes up the series in style.

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