A New Lease on Death cover art

A New Lease on Death

Supernatural Mysteries, Book 1

Preview

Audible Standard 1-month free trial

Auto-renews at $8.99/mo + applicable tax after 30-day trial. Cancel Anytime
Try for $0.00
More purchase options

A New Lease on Death

Written by: Olivia Blacke
Narrated by: Stefanie Kay, Petrea Burchard
Try for $0.00

$8.99 a month after 30 days. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for $22.92

Buy Now for $22.92

Summary

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
Amateur Sleuth Mystery Supernatural Thriller & Suspense Women Sleuths Feel-Good Fantasy Fiction
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_c

Continue the series

Death at the Door cover art
Death at the Door Written by: Olivia Blacke
The Key to a Killer cover art
The Key to a Killer Written by: Olivia Blacke
All stars
Most Relevant
Nothing better than a good cosy mystery with ghosts! I really appreciated the fact that the paranormal aspects weren't too fantastical and that made the storyline so much more engaging. The characters were well developed and likeable (except for the bad guys, of course), and the evolving relationship between Ruby and her non-corporeal room mate was delightful. The lack of a romantic male lead was a relief for me as too often it makes an otherwise good story cloyingingly mushy and irritating.

I finished the book in two days and am now feeling bereft and lost, waiting for the next in series!

Just what i needed

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.

I made it thru, mainly bc of the narrator. much of it was quite ridiculous - I know it's meant to be a light read but it was too much for me. I won't be looking for more from this author - even tho it was left on a "cliff hanger", I don't care enough to find out what happens next

a lot of eye rolling moments

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.