Sometimes it takes working with the dead to start living.

Kathy Valence is forty-two, mid-divorce, and pregnant with her ex’s baby. She’s also a modern-day grim reaper employed by S.C.Y.T.H.E. (Secure Collection, Yielding, and Transportation of Human Essences), but frankly that’s the easiest part of her life right now. Or at least it was, until her latest client’s soul goes missing.

When she finally tracks down seventeen-year-old Conner Ortiz, he angrily denies he died of natural causes, despite what his file says. He insists that someone at S.C.Y.T.H.E. murdered him, and he demands Kathy find out who and why.

Kathy has only forty-five days to figure out what happened to Conner and help him move on before the boy’s soul is doomed to roam the Earth as a ghost forever. She’s forced to rely on the help of her retired mentor, her almost ex-husband—and some sneaky moves by Conner himself. This is the wildest case of her career. . .and one wrong move could cost Kathy her job, not to mention her life.

Review:

Unique, lighthearted, and entertaining!

A Grim Reaper’s Guide to Catching a Killer is a well-paced, amusing murder mystery that takes you into the life of Kathy Valence, a middle-aged woman and S.C.Y.T.H.E. employee who, in the middle of a divorce and suddenly pregnant, has her day job go a little off track when a soul she is sent to retrieve goes missing, and someone at the company may have had something to do with it.

The writing is light and witty. The characters are inquisitive, impulsive, and endearing. And the plot is a well-paced, zany whodunit full of amateur sleuthing, red herrings, misdirection, mishaps, suspects, deduction, supernatural phenomena, and a touch of the unexpected..

A Grim Reaper’s Guide to Catching a Killer is the first book in the S.C.Y.T.H.E. Mystery series, and if you’re a fan of cosy mysteries, this novel won’t disappoint. It’s a fun, quirky, entertaining read by Dara, and I look forward to reading whatever she spooks up next.

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