Monday, July 22, 2024

The Dead Guy Next Door by Lucy Score


Started: 5/6/2024

Finished: 7/22/2024

Year: 2020

Pages: 460

Genre: romantic suspense

Grade: B

Reason for reading: library book

Type: paperback

Blurb (from Amazon): "Divorced. Broke. Living with a pack of elderly roommates. And those hallucinations she's diligently ignoring? Her tarot card-dealing mom is convinced they're clairvoyant visions.

"Just when things can't get worse, a so-hot-it-should-be-illegal private investigator shows up on her doorstep looking for one of her neighbors…who turns up murdered.

"Nick Santiago doesn't play well with others. Unless the "others" are of the female persuasion. Wink. He's a rebel, a black sheep, a man who prefers a buffet of options to being stuck with the same entrée every night, if you catch his drift.

"When the pretty, possibly psychic Riley lands at the top of the list of suspects, Nick volunteers to find out whodunit. Only because he likes solving mysteries not because he wants to flex his heroic muscles for the damsel in distress.

"All they have to do is figure out who pulled the trigger, keep a by-the-book detective with a grudge at bay, and deal with a stranger claiming he was sent to help Riley hone her psychic gifts. All before the killer discovers she's a loose end that requires snipping."


Opinion: A decent introduction to Riley and her fake fiancee Nick. Decent mystery. Lots of suspenseful action.

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