Staged by Elle Cosimano @ElleCosimano @megantusing @BrilliancePub #BusybodiesCollection

the setup…
Lyda is a new real estate agent trying desperately to clinch her first sale. The property at hand is a sad Victorian needing lots of work. Dani, her best friend since childhood, is now a home stager (trained on TikTok), sees a diamond in the literal rough and has workers readying it for the next day’s open house. They leave landscaper Sawyer Mackenzie behind as they run off to do some last minute errands, only to return and find the lothario’s dead body in the master bathroom upstairs!

the heart of the story…
The subject is busybodies and as this is a small town, everyone knows everybody else’s business. There’s the next door nosy neighbor Mrs. Price, Sawyer who was dating Marilee (Lyda’s cleaner) but broke up with her, George the painter whose cousin Tansey was dating him before…well, you get the picture. They’ve all converged at the house around the same time so there’s no shortage of potential suspects and amateur sleuths.

the narration…
Megan Tusing brought just the right airiness to this cozy mystery/comedy. Her storytelling skills were great.

the bottom line…
It’s not a complicated mystery and all the busybodies contribute to solving who killed Sawyer. It was intriguing enough for me to try and figure it out (I was wrong) and it has the author’s signature touch in pairing Lyda and Dani to do the investigation. It was just what I was hoping it would be. Really recommend the audio format.

Book Info

• Release Date: October 15, 2024
• Series: Busybodies Collection #1
• Narrator: Megan Tusing
• Audio Length: 1 hour, 6 minutes
• Publisher: Amazon Original Stories

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(Thanks to Brilliance Audio for my complimentary copy of the entire collection. All opinions are my own.)