Riley Thorn and the Corpse in the Closet by Lucy Score [Review]

Riley Thorn and the Corpse in the Closet (Riley Thorn #2) by Lucy Score
Format: ebook
Source: borrowed through Kindle Unlimited
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Date read: July 9, 2021

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

Lucy Score
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

Summer is heating up for reluctant psychic Riley Thorn and her handsome private investigator boyfriend, Nick Santiago. First, her disapproving grandmother arrives determined to make Riley take her powers seriously or face the wrath of “the Guild.” Then there’s the homicide detective who needs her help figuring out who murdered the well-dressed corpse in the walk-in closet.

Nick’s got his own hands full with a tricky missing person case and his parents who want to know why he didn’t tell them about his live-in girlfriend. Then there’s the fact that he’s still the tiniest bit stressed about Riley almost getting murdered earlier that summer. The last thing he wants is her getting involved in another investigation.

Things go from bad to worse when the body count starts stacking up, the meet-the-parents dinner goes horribly wrong, and their elderly roommate is up to no good…dressed like a mime.

To top it off, Riley is forced to return to Channel 50 on official police business to question her spray-tanned news anchor ex-husband and his new weather girl fiancée.

The trouble comes to a head when Riley receives a warning from the killer: Back off or she’s next. Someone has to solve these murders before she becomes the next corpse.

Thoughts on Riley Thorn and the Corpse in the Closet: I don't know what it is about Riley and Nick, but MAN they make me laugh. From their ongoing bouts with coitus interruptus (seriously, THESE TWO HAVE A TERRIBLE TIME BEING ALLOWED TO FINISH!) to the way Nick is fumbling his way through figuring out how to boyfriend (HAHAHAHAHA) to Riley stumbling into EVERY SINGLE DANGEROUS SITUATION A PERSON COULD STUMBLE INTO (she's extremely talented at getting herself into trouble, friends!) they had me giggling my way through this book.

Bottom line: Riley and Nick are a hoot!

But so are their housemates. And their respective families. And Nick's slightly violence prone bromances with the various dudes who hang around. And I SINCERELY continue to hope Riley's ex gets the most wicked rash a person could get because he is a genuinely terrible, shallow person.

Anywho. There might be a few dead bodies and Riley's grandmother might be slightly terrifying (but then again, so are family dinners at the Santiago residence), but Riley and Nick get things done. Well, except for that one thing. The thing they keep getting interrupted doing. Heh. Yeah, that still amuses me.

In case you couldn't guess, I am 100% behind many more books featuring a reluctant, danger-prone psychic and her slightly OTT protective boyfriend. And their families. And their gaseous dog. And their elderly housemates. *THUMBS UP SO HARD I PROBABLY SPRAINED SOMETHING*