The Dead Guy Next Door by Lucy Score Pages: 540
Genres: Mystery, Romantic Comedy
Setting: Harrisburg, PA
Source: ARC, NetGalley
Also by this author: The Corpse in the Closet, The Blast from the Past, The Body in the Backyard
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A nice, normal life. Is that too much to ask? For Riley Thorn it is.
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 a neighbor…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 the 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.
The Dead Guy Next Door
Why have I not heard of this before now?!? This series is hilarious! The heroine, Riley, is a psychic who doesn’t want to be, working in a job she hates, and paying an ex-husband she hates even more. Nick is a PI who lives like exactly the way he wants it-uncomplicated and unattached.
Nick and Riley’s meet cute pulls her into the impending death of her neighbor. I loved the building romance between Nick and Riley because it was very natural. They certainly are opposites and I loved it. The mystery is great, but the hijinks are just hilarious. Finding out who murdered her neighbor and why was just part of it; then they had to figure out how to stop it! Add in the hilarious elderly roommates, Riley’s “unique” family, and a by the book cop who hates Nick and you have a mystery romance with delightful humor! Seriously, I cannot recommend The Dead Guy Next Door enough!
- POV: 3rd
- Tears: no
- Trope: murder mystery, opposites attract, dysfunctional family
- Triggers: none (I mean, attempted murder, and murder but that’s really it)
- Series/Standalone: series
- Cliffhanger: View Spoiler »
- HEA: View Spoiler »
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The Stephanie Plum series (without the love triangle), Hannah Swenson series by Joanna Fluke (but with more romance)…then you will probably like The Dead Guy Next Door!
I’ve read both Stephanie Plum and Hannah Swenson. They both had love triangles. But mostly I stopped reading Stephanie Plum because it was ridiculous and I didn’t find it funny any more. Hannah I liked a little more but the constant attention to the two men was wearing. Anyway, this sounds good. I like psychics and I like cops.
The Stephanie Plum books got very repetitive after awhile. I never thought the Hannah Swenson books were that engaging. I forgot about those having a love triangle! It has been awhile since I read one. The Riley Thorn series is just so great!!
This sound cute. I can imagine hilarious. too. Funny thing is I’m writing a book about a psychic who doesn’t want to be a psychic. Only instead of it being a romance its horror.