A01=Olivia Blacke
amateur detective
Author_Olivia Blacke
Boston
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Cordelia
dark humor
debut
dual POV
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female crime writers
female sleuth
first in series
ghosts
Liv Black
paranormal mysteries
Record Shop Mysteries
Ruby
Product details
- ISBN 9781250336699
- Weight: 310g
- Dimensions: 135 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 17 Nov 2025
- Publisher: Minotaur Books,US
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 neighbours. A dead body on the sidewalk outside. And of course, a ghost.
Since Cordelia Graves died in her apartment a few months ago, she’s kept up her residency, despite being bored out of her (non-tangible) skull and frustrated by her new roommate. When her across-the-hall neighbour, Jake Macintyre, is shot and killed in an apparent mugging gone wrong outside their building, Cordelia is convinced there’s more to it and is determined to bring his killer to justice.
Unfortunately, Cordelia, being dead herself, can’t solve the mystery alone. She has to enlist the help of the obnoxiously perky, living tenant of her apartment. Ruby is twenty, annoying, and has never met a houseplant she couldn’t kill. But she also can do everything Cordelia can’t, from interviewing suspects to researching Jake on the library computers that go up in smoke if Cordelia gets too close. As the roommates form an unlikely friendship and get closer to the truth about Jake’s death, they also start to uncover other dangerous secrets.
OLIVIA BLACKE (she/her) had her first encounter with a ghost when she was only five, but her first involvement with an active crime scene wasn't until much later, when she accidentally stepped into a chalk outline on a Manhattan sidewalk. Armed with a Criminology and Criminal Justice degree, she found a way to channel her love of the supernatural and passion for writing into darkly humorous supernatural mysteries. She's also the author of the Record Shop Mysteries and the Brooklyn Murder Mysteries.
