Death is only the beginning in Olivia Blackes A New Lease on Death, a darkly funny supernatural mystery that introduces an unlikely crime-solving duo. Ruby Youngs 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 neighbors. A dead body on the sidewalk outside. And of course, a ghost. Since Cordelia Graves died in her apartment a few months ago, shes kept up her residency, despite being bored out of her (non-tangible) skull and frustrated by her new roommate. When her across-the-hall neighbor, Jake Macintyre, is shot and killed in an apparent mugging gone wrong outside their building, Cordelia is convinced theres more to it and is determined to bring his killer to justice. Unfortunately, Cordelia, being dead herself, cant 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 couldnt kill. But she also can do everything Cordelia cant, from interviewing suspects to researching Jake on the library computers that go up in a puff of smoke if Cordelia gets too close. As the roommates form an unlikely friendship and get closer to the truth about Jakes death, they also start to uncover other dangerous secrets.
