Book Review: The Dead Guy Next Door by Lucy Score

Book Review: The Dead Guy Next Door by Lucy Score

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.

Final Thoughts

When I read the synopsis of this book I was really excited to give it a read, but once I started it was such a struggle to make it through.

First off, this book was entirely too long for no reason. I don’t feel like I should have to get 300 pages in before the story even really gets started.

I didn’t really feel a connection to any of the characters, which is probably one of the reasons I struggled so hard to make it through.

There were bits of the story that pulled me in and would connect me back to the story, but it just wasn’t enough for me to love it.

Review: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

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