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Riley Thorn and the Dead Guy Next Door

by Lucy Score

🌶️🌶️🌶️moderate·spoiler·Riley Thorn #1
Available on Kindle Unlimited

Why Read This?

You'll laugh out loud while rooting for an unlikely couple to solve a murder and find love.

Synopsis

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.

At a Glance

4.13 ★ Goodreads
Spice Level🌶️🌶️🌶️moderate
Endingspoiler
PairingM/F
Romance Pacingmedium burn

Top Tropes

fake datingforced proximityhidden identity

Mood

mysteriouslightheartedhumorousromanticadventurous

Book Details

Goodreads Rating

4.13 ★

Page Count

519 pages

Published

2020

Primary Genre

Contemporary Romance

Pairing

M/F

POV

Dual POV

Romance Pacing

Medium Burn

Cliffhanger

spoiler

Audiobook

Available

Yes

Format

Standard

Narrator

Natalie Duke

Narrator Count

Single

Narration Style

Single

Tropes

RomanceMagicActionAngstWorld
Theme Constellation

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Mood & Vibe

Mood

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Characters

FMC: reluctant hero sign in to unlock

Spice Details 🌶️

playful / fun sign in to unlock

kidnappingmurderviolencestalking

World & Setting

contemporary sign in to unlock

Reading Context

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