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Date read: July 21, 2024
Riley Thorn
1. Riley Thorn and the Dead Guy Next Door
2. Riley Thorn and the Corpse in the Closet
3. Riley Thorn and the Blast from the Past
4. The Body in the Backyard - Paperback | Kindle
Lucy Score
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Synopsis (Goodreads):
Her self-absorbed news anchor ex-husband careening back into her life was not on this amateur psychic detective’s bingo card.Thoughts on The Body in the Backyard: Yessss. We're back with Riley, Nick, and THE CREW (said in very shouty letters because Riley's former roommates are something else) and they have the horrible, terrible, COMPLETELY AWFUL (said in very shouty letters because he's a genuinely terrible person) Griffin Gentry as their newest client. Since Griffin is Riley's ex-husband on top of being a utter douchecanoe of a human, Nick is super not pleased with this case.
Not only does Griffin Gentry show up unexpectedly at Riley Thorn’s door—the real shock is that he’s begging her for help. Riley’s hot private investigator boyfriend Nick Santiago refusing to take the job is…well, less of a surprise.
Too bad for Nick that his octogenarian business partner overrules him and takes the lead on Griffin’s case. But when a dead body makes it clear someone really is out to get Riley’s ex, the mile-long suspect list means all hands on deck at Santiago Investigations. Even the wrinkly, retired ones.
It’s only a matter of time before Griffin brings the danger directly to their doorstep. And with Riley and Nick busy interviewing suspects, that leaves their elderly roommates to wreak havoc in the surveillance department. Can Riley block out the chaos to focus her psychic visions long enough to narrow down the list of suspects? Or will Griffin Gentry’s bad karma be the downfall of them all?
On the plus side, Nick gets to fantasize about all the ways they could abandon their morals and leave Griffin to fend for himself. Not going lie, Nick has a lot of fantasies about that. But since he's a basically decent human and Riley keeps guilting him into sticking around, Nick does not, in fact, leave Griffin to deal with his issues himself.
On Riley's end, she's a good enough person that she doesn't want to see Griffin end up as the next homicide story on the news. So she grits her teeth and deals with Bella's female face-blindness and Griffin's obsession with his own reflection and does her best to keep him from getting whacked. Given Griffin's (and Bella's) complete lack of situational awareness along with even the tiniest drop of common sense, it's a pretty big job.
But Riley has her spirit guides on her side, her hunk of a honey guarding her back, a dog with gut issues when he eats human food to keep her centered, and her chaos-gremlin former roommates to muck things up in the most unimaginable way possible at every turn. In other words, the Riley Thorn special.
MAN, these books are fun!
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