Death of an Ex
A Vandy Myrick Mystery
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- USD 14.99
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- USD 14.99
Descripción editorial
Delia Pitts expertly writes about family, race, class, and grief in her mysteries. Vandy Myrick captured readers' and critics' hearts in Trouble in Queenstown. She returns in Death of an Ex, where Vandy tries to piece together what brought her ex-husband's life to an end.
Queenstown, New Jersey, feels big when you need help and tiny when you want privacy. For Vandy Myrick, that’s both a blessing and a curse. Now that Vandy’s back in “Q-Town,” her services as her hometown’s only Black woman private investigator have earned her more celebrity—or notoriety—than she figured.
Keeping busy with work helps Vandy deal with the grief of losing her daughter, stitching the seams, cementing the gaps. The memories will always remain, and they come crashing back to the surface when her ex-husband, Phil Bolden, walks back into her life. Promising everything, returning home, restoring family. Until she answers her door to the news that Phil has been murdered. And Vandy decides Phil is now her client.
It’s hard to separate the Phil that Vandy knew from the one Queenstown did. She sees him—and their daughter—in Phil’s son, who attends a prestigious local high school. She sees the layers of a complicated marriage with his wife. She sees all of Phil’s various roles: parent, husband, businessman, philanthropist. But which role got him killed?
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New Jersey PI Vandy Myrick probes the murder of her ex-husband in Pitts's satisfying sequel to Trouble in Queenstown. When Vandy agrees to accompany her former client, prep school teacher Ingrid Ramírez, to an annual homecoming banquet, she doesn't expect to bump into her estranged ex, Philip Bolden (or as she calls him, "Philandering Phil"). Nor does she expect to be so torn up about seeing him shine as the chair of the school's board of trustees and husband of the guidance counselor. The next morning, police find Phil's dead body near Vandy's office, leaving her little choice but to figure out who's responsible. In the 20 years since the couple's divorce, Phil had become the CEO of a successful real estate company; the more Vandy digs into its operations, the longer her list of suspects gets. Vandy, who is marked but not defined by her grief over her daughter's early death, is an uncommonly well-shaded mystery heroine. Throw in Pitts's knack for scene setting and her sharp observations about race and class, and this series seems poised for a long run.
