A is for Apparition. A NEW LEASE ON DEATH introduces Ruby Young, a woman who moves to Boston only to find that her new apartment is haunted by a ghostly apparition named Cordelia Graves.
N is for Neighbors. When the across-the-hall neighbor is murdered, recently deceased Cordelia Graves enlists Ruby’s help to solve the mystery and bring his killer to justice.
E is for Ethereal. Cordelia was never described as light or delicate while she was alive, but now that she’s dead and can pass through solid objects, she’s the very definition of ethereal.
W is for Weird. Long before A NEW LEASE ON DEATH was a book, it was my “weird little ghost story” that I couldn’t wait to tell. And now, I can’t wait for you to read it!
L is for Lazy Landlords. The building super didn’t want the hassle of cleaning out Cordelia’s apartment after she died in the bathtub, so the lazy landlord rented it out to Ruby fully furnished. It was a stroke of luck for a woman who moved to Boston with nothing but a few suitcases of silly T-shirts and didn’t have money to buy coffee, much less a couch.
E is for Empathy. While Cordelia is a little rough around the edges, Ruby is sweet and kind. It’s her empathy that makes her so good at interrogating suspects with compassion, which gets them to open up to her.
A is for Apartment. 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. Noisy neighbors. A dead body on the sidewalk outside. And of course, a ghost.
S is for Supernatural. Unlike my previous cozies, A NEW LEASE ON DEATH is a darkly humorous supernatural mystery.
E is for Examination. Cordelia and Ruby never expected to become detectives, but when the police drop the ball, it’s up to them to conduct an amateur examination of all the clues and suspects to reveal the person who killed their neighbor.
O is for Otherworldly. What’s more otherworldly than a ghost detective and her living roommate solving murders together?
N is for iNvestigation. Fine, I cheated with this one. But since the heart of A NEW LEASE ON DEATH is focused around an iNvestigation into who killed Cordelia and Ruby’s neighbor, Jake, I thought I could get away with fudging this one a bit.
D is for Death. Death is only the beginning in this darkly funny mystery about an unlikely crime-solving duo.
E is for Element. Ruby is certainly out of her element! She’s new to Boston, and has never been on her own before. But is she really living alone, if she has a ghost in her apartment?
A is for Alliance. A grumpy, recently deceased ghost and her new, annoyingly perky living roommate form an unlikely alliance and put aside their considerable differences to solve a series of seemingly unrelated murders in their Boston neighborhood.
T is for Truth. As the roommates form an unlikely friendship and get closer to the truth about the neighbor’s death, they start to uncover other dangerous secrets.
H is for Housemate. When your housemate is a ghost, anything can happen! Find out all the crime-solving antics Ruby and Cordelia get up to in A NEW LEASE ON DEATH.
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.
Paranormal | Mystery Amateur Sleuth [Minotaur Books, On Sale: October 29, 2024, Hardcover / e-Book, ISBN: 9781250336675 / ]
OLIVIA BLACKE (she/her), author of the Record Shop Mysteries, beginning with Vinyl Resting Place, and the Brooklyn Murder Mysteries, finally found a way to put her Criminology degree to good use by writing quirky, unconventional, character-driven cozy mysteries. Olivia is a little nerdy, a lot awkward, and just the right amount of weird. She is a recovering ex-Texan who resides with her husband, Potassium, and Baileycakes, their roly-poly rescue puggle. When not writing, reading, or spending way too much time on social media, Olivia enjoys Amigurumi crochet, scuba diving, collecting tattoos, watching hockey, and baking dog cookies. She wants to be a unicorn when she grows up.
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