Death of an Ex

The Vandy Myrick Mysteries, Book 2

De: Delia Pitts

Narrado por: Bahni Turpin

Delia Pitts expertly writes about family, race, class, and grief in her mysteries. Vandy Myrick captured audiences' 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?

"Narrator Bahni Turpin showcases her award-winning talent...."—AudioFile on Trouble in Queenstown

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Reseñas de la Crítica

“A literary, absorbing whodunit encompassing murder, human compassion, and grief.”–Library Journal (starred review)

“[Vandy Myrick] 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.”–Publishers Weekly

"Pitts works so assiduously to knit Vandy’s detective work together with her self-imposed mandate to heal the most vulnerable members of her community that the healing work continues even after Phil’s murderer is identified."–Kirkus Reviews