A New Lease on Death, Olivia Blacke
A New Lease on Death, Olivia Blacke
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A New Lease on Death

Author: Olivia Blacke

Narrator: Stefanie Kay, Petrea Burchard

Unabridged: 9 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/29/2024

Synopsis

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.

About Olivia Blacke

Olivia Blacke (she/her) had her first encounter with a ghost when she was only five years old, but her first involvement with an active crime scene wasn't until much later when she accidentally stepped into a chalk outline on a Manhattan sidewalk. Armed with a Criminology and Criminal Justice degree, she finally found a way to channel her love of the supernatural and passion for writing into darkly humorous supernatural mysteries. She is also the author of the Record Shop Mysteries and the Brooklyn Murder Mysteries. She still wants to be a unicorn when she grows up.

About Stefanie Kay

Stefanie Kay has been a performer at heart from a very young age. After years of college theater courses, vocal lessons, plays, and even an improv group, she chose to take the leap into audiobook narration. A mom to two wild boys who devour books like it's their job, she loves crafting and is also a licensed wildlife rehabilitator.

About Petrea Burchard

Petrea Burchard is a talented actor and audiobook narrator whose career covers everything from Second City to Shakespeare to a space pirate in the classic anime Tenchi Muyo. A writer and animal lover, she can never get enough dog cuddles.

Reviews

Goodreads review by PamG

Olivia Blacke has written a darkly humorous supernatural mystery, A New Lease on Death, featuring Ruby Young and Cordelia Graves. Ruby Young has just moved into a fully furnished Boston apartment that comes with noisy neighbors and the ghost of its former owner, Cordelia Graves. When neighbor Ja......more

Goodreads review by JadeLovesBooksss

This was an entertaining read. I love cozy murder mysteries and this was exactly that. A quirky whodunnit with a cast of peculiar characters that kept me engaged. Cordelia is a ghost. She unalived herself (or did she?) in her own bathroom by overdosing on alcohol and pills. Her landlord didn't even......more

Goodreads review by Heathers_reads

I’m starting to get a taste for comedic murder mysteries with witty female characters that are either amateur detectives or good hearted serial killers. “A new lease on death” falls into the amateur detective category and follows room mates Ruby and Cordelia, only Cordelia is a recently departed from......more

Goodreads review by Rachel

Naurrrrrr the cliffhanger! I really enjoyed this book but that ending 😫 it felt a little rushed and i wish it was dragged out a bit more. this was an easy and enjoyable read. I liked the characters and im excited for some unanswered questions to be answered in the next book! I received an advance re......more

Goodreads review by Mlpmom (Book Reviewer)

I couldn't resist picking this up with such an interesting premise, not to mention the small hope that this would be anything like another beloved series with a funny heroine who can see ghosts. And while this didn't (sadly) live up to the series I was hoping it would, it did hold its own in many wa......more

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