A New Lease on Death

Supernatural Mysteries, Book 1

De: Olivia Blacke

Narrado por: Stefanie Kay, Petrea Burchard

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.

©2024 Olivia Blacke (P)2024 Dreamscape Media

Loved this book!

Can't wait for the next one. This was a complete escape and just what I needed. We'll done, Olivia!

Great listen

Story and narrators great! Looking forward to next book. Had me guessing who did it until the end.

Pretty Good

This is an entertaining cozy mystery with engaging characters and an entertaining plot. I look forward to the next book.

Good book

This author is new to me and I definitely enjoyed this book. I felt the plot was well written, the details were interesting, and I really liked the characters! I listened to the audiobook and the narrators did a great job. The only thing I didn't like is the way the book ended ... it is almost like a cliffhanger. Although the main mystery for this story is solved the book ended with a strong possibility of another mystery needing to be solved (& I felt little 'clues' throughout the book that had me wondering about a possible 2nd book). Overall, a good story that kept me engaged until the end!