The Thousand-Dollar Tan Line is the first in a hopefully infinite line of Veronica Mars crime novels. Like the recent movie, this book is written for fans. While you don't have to be a die-hard Kickstarting Marshmallow to enjoy it, the book primarily assumes you've seen the TV series and the movie in terms of giving main characters very little background information. 
 This story reads as another film or a double episode as a couple of Spring Breaker disappearances send Veronica all over Neptune working with her entourage to solve the case. The predictability level is about on par with the TV show, so it is not earth-shattering fiction. However, it is more Veronica which is all I wanted. Reasonably, this book should really be more like a 4, but the fact that I lost sleep to finish it pushes it up to 5. 
 Given the writing style as well as the subject matter, I'm kind of surprised my library has put it in adult mystery rather than in the teen annex. It very much seems like young adult fiction. Maybe a 28yo is no longer a "girl detective"? While the writing is a little overly descriptive, I enjoyed that since it seemed almost like a movie script planning a scene for filming. 
 Recommended for all VM fans <3