Blurb:
Death is only the beginning in Olivia
Blacke's A New Lease on Death, a darkly funny supernatural mystery
that introduces an unlikely crime-solving duo.
Ruby Young's new Boston apartment comes with all the usual perks. Windows
facing the brick wall of the next-door building. Heat that barely works. A
malfunctioning buzzer. Noisy neighbors. A dead body on the sidewalk outside.
And of course, a ghost.
Since Cordelia Graves died in her apartment a few months ago, she's kept up her
residency, despite being bored out of her (non-tangible) skull and frustrated
by her new roommate. When her across-the-hall neighbor, Jake Macintyre, is shot
and killed in an apparent mugging gone wrong outside their building, Cordelia
is convinced there’s more to it and is determined to bring his killer to
justice.
Unfortunately, Cordelia, being dead herself, can't solve the mystery alone. She
has to enlist the help of the obnoxiously perky, living tenant of her
apartment. Ruby is twenty, annoying, and has never met a houseplant she
couldn't kill. But she also can do everything Cordelia can't, from interviewing
suspects to researching Jake on the library computers that go up in a puff of
smoke if Cordelia gets too close. As the roommates form an unlikely friendship
and get closer to the truth about Jake's death, they also start to uncover
other dangerous secrets.
My review:
A New Lease on Death is a new twist on the ghost as an investigative
tool. I really enjoyed the camaraderie between Cordelia and Ruby. The mystery was
intriguing and leaves us with more to learn. I thoroughly enjoyed watching Ruby
and Cordelia’s relationship grow as they solve Jakes murder. Bring on the next
installment.
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