A Grim Reaper's Guide to Cheating Death
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A LIBRARY READS PICK!
When a determined killer targets her brother, a grim reaper risks everything to save him in this delightful cozy mystery.
Nora Bird works for S.C.Y.T.H.E., which might seem odd for someone as terrified of death as she is. But ever since her parents died in an accident when she was six, she's been obsessed with avoiding risk, and what better place to learn how to cheat death than the company that employs the nation's grim reapers?
The work enables Nora to learn all about the myriad ways you can kick the bucket, which is comforting...until one day, a file crosses her desk with a name she recognizes. Her twin brother’s.
The twins haven’t spoken in six months, but Charlie is all Nora has left. Completely against her cautious nature, Nora steals the file and flees, racing to her brother’s house. She begs him to trust her that his death is imminent, and they hit the road (with his parrot, Jessica, who has plenty to say) in an attempt to evade both death and S.C.Y.T.H.E., whose sole mission of collecting souls has been disrupted by Charlie’s continued existence.
Alas, every time Nora saves him, a new cause of death appears in his file. Someone is determined to take Charlie out, and Nora will have to use everything she's ever learned about death to discover the culprit.
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Dara's witty sequel to A Grim Reaper's Guide to Catching a Killer smartly expands on the universe its predecessor introduced. Nora Bird works as an administrative coordinator at S.C.Y.T.H.E. (Secure Collection, Yielding, and Transportation of Human Essences), assigning grim reapers to collect the souls of the recently deceased. As she sorts through her case files one morning, Nora is horrified to see the name of her twin brother, Charlie. The siblings have barely spoken for months, but with both of their parents dead, the typically risk-averse Nora is galvanized to protect what little family she has left. She scoops Charlie from his apartment and embarks on a road trip in hopes of evading her colleagues. Every time they manage to avoid the death listed in Charlie's file, however, the method changes, leading Nora to believe he's been marked for murder by someone at S.C.Y.T.H.E. She becomes a sleuth, sniffing out clues that point to buried family secrets. A long list of suspects, a dark sense of humor, and surprisingly weighty meditations on mortality carry the day. It's a killer good time.
