Watching Ellen investigate... on her own is thoroughly fascinating.
Brett fans, along with readers who liked Richard Roper's How Not to Die
Alone (2019), will love this quirky, warmhearted mystery - Booklist
Starred Review
Introducing an engaging new amateur sleuth, declutterer Ellen Curtis,
in the first of a brilliant new mystery series.
Ellen Curtis runs her own business helping people who are running out of
space. As a declutterer, she is used to encountering all sorts of weird
and wonderful objects in the course of her work. What she has never
before encountered is a dead body.
When Ellen stumbles across the body of a young woman in an
over-cluttered flat, suspicion immediately falls on the deceased
homeowner's son, who has recently absconded from prison. No doubt Nate
Ogden is guilty of many things - but is he really the killer?
Discovering a link between the victim and her own past, Ellen sets out
to uncover the truth. But where has her best friend disappeared to? And
is Ellen really prepared for the shocking revelations to follow?