Riley Thorn and the Dead Guy Next Door by Lucy Score [Review]

Riley Thorn and the Dead Guy Next Door (Riley Thorn #1) by Lucy Score
Format: ebook
Source: borrowed through Kindle Unlimited
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Date read: March 21, 2021

Riley Thorn
1. Riley Thorn and the Dead Guy Next Door - Paperback | Kindle
2. Riley Thorn and the Corpse in the Closet
3. Riley Thorn and the Blast from the Past
4. The Body in the Backyard

Lucy Score
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

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.

Thoughts on Riley Thorn and the Dead Guy Next Door: Oh, yes. The reluctant psychic and the PI who's reluctantly attracted to her. And by that, I mean Nick is attracted, but doesn't think Riley is a one-time deal and he doesn't plan on playing house with ANYONE. Much less someone who runs headlong into danger and keeps him on his toes and knows things she shouldn't be able to know.

Not that Riley advertises the knowing things part. In fact, she tries her level best to pretend she knows NOTHING about the weird thing she sees. In fact, what weird things? She's totally normal. Totally.

You know, until she's not. Until she's vision-ing her next door neighbor's murder. Oh, yeah, and seeing steamy trysts with the hunky PI who wants to pretend they're in a relationship so he can help her figure out who killed next door neighbor. HA. These two. I like them. They're so willfully blind to the thing happening between them. It's so satisfying when those ones fall.

Anywho. A quirky cast of characters, midnight vigilantes, dudes who take their clothes off in the middle of the night because who needs clothes when sleeping, amirite?!?!, and a psychic who'd like to be anywhere else but in the middle of a whacked-out dangerous situation. Did I enjoy my time with Riley and Nick? YES, I DID!