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A Grim Reaper's Guide to Catching a Killer by Maxie Dara

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A GRIM REAPER'S GUIDE TO CATCHING A KILLER
By: Maxie Dara


Berkley
October 2024
On Sale: October 1, 2024
Featuring: Conner Ortiz; Kathy Valence
352 pages
ISBN: 0593815793
EAN: 9780593815793
Kindle: B0CRTKKNZP
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Fantasy | Paranormal | Humor

Sometimes it takes working with the dead to start living.

Kathy Valence is forty-two, mid-divorce, and pregnant with her ex's baby. She's also a modern-day grim reaper employed by S.C.Y.T.H.E. (Secure Collection, Yielding, and Transportation of Human Essences), but frankly that's the easiest part of her life right now. Or at least it was, until her latest client's soul goes missing.

When she finally tracks down seventeen-year-old Conner Ortiz, he angrily denies he died of natural causes, despite what his file says. He insists that someone at S.C.Y.T.H.E. murdered him, and he demands Kathy find out who and why. 

Kathy has only forty-five days to figure out what happened to Conner and help him move on before the boy's soul is doomed to roam the Earth as a ghost forever. She’s forced to rely on the help of her retired mentor, her almost ex-husband—and some sneaky moves by Conner himself. This is the wildest case of her career. . .and one wrong move could cost Kathy her job, not to mention her life.

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A Grim Reaper's Guide to Catching a Killer
A GRIM REAPER'S GUIDE TO CATCHING A KILLER
#1.0 β€’ October 2024
A Grim Reaper's Guide to Cheating Death
A GRIM REAPER'S GUIDE TO CHEATING DEATH
#2.0 β€’ December 2025
A Grim Reaper's Guide to Living Twice
A GRIM REAPER'S GUIDE TO LIVING TWICE
#3.0 β€’ November 2026