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The Key to a Killer: A Ruby and Cordelia Mystery

by Olivia Blacke

A ghost’s unresolved murder becomes a shared investigation

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A ghost’s unresolved murder becomes a shared investigation

Ruby Young and her ghost roommate, Cordelia Graves, have already worked together on murder cases—but the question of how Cordelia died has remained between them. When clues point to foul play and Cordelia begins recovering memories of her final day, the friends turn their attention to her own death. The investigation asks them to reconstruct Cordelia’s last days and identify the killer before that person can escape justice. With a living sleuth and a ghost at its center, the mystery also gives their friendship a personal stake: solving the case means confronting the history that brought Cordelia to Ruby’s Boston apartment.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers who enjoy mysteries featuring women sleuths and murder investigations.
  • Readers interested in a detective partnership between a living woman and a ghost.
  • Readers who like a personal connection between the sleuths and the case they investigate.

Themes

Friendship across life and deathMemory and the pastJustice for the murdered

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Book overview

A woman and her ghost roommate investigate their most personal case yet in Olivia Blacke's The Key to a Killer, the next book in the Anthony Award winning Ruby and Cordelia Mysteries.

When Ruby Young discovered that her Boston apartment was haunted, she did what any reasonable person would do: befriend the ghost. Their relationship overcame a shaky start--Cordelia Graves never wanted a roommate in life, she certainly didn't want one in death. After working together to solve a few murders, the two are close friends, but there's a lingering question neither of them have been able to answer: what led to Cordelia's death?

Lately things have been adding up that suggest foul play. And when Cordelia's memories of that day start to come back, the roommates can't ignore it anymore: Cordelia was murdered. Ruby and Cordelia are going to have to piece together what Cordelia's final days looked like--otherwise a killer could go free.

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