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 coursea ghost. Since Cordelia Graves died in her apartment a few months agoshe’s kept up her residencydespite being bored out of her (non-tangible) skull and frustrated by her new roommate. When her across-the-hall neighborJake Macintyreis shot and killed in an apparent mugging gone wrong outside their buildingCordelia is convinced thereΓÇÖs more to it and is determined to bring his killer to justice. UnfortunatelyCordeliabeing dead herselfcan’t solve the mystery alone. She has to enlist the help of the obnoxiously perkyliving tenant of her apartment. Ruby is twentyannoyingand has never met a houseplant she couldn’t kill. But she also can do everything Cordelia can’tfrom 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 deaththey also start to uncover other dangerous secrets.