A review by effy
Staged by Elle Cosimano

2.5

 
This is the first book in the newest Amazon Original Stories collection, Busybodies. These are short stories that are designed to be able to be read in a single sitting and all of the books in this collection are within the mystery/thriller genre.

In this story, a real estate agent is working on staging a property for her newest open house when the gardener / landscaper is found murdered so she becomes an amateur sleuth to get to the bottom of what happened.

This was a serviceable enough story but I did think the rivals-to-lovers romance between the FMC and another real estate agent felt a bit contrived and unnecessarily took away from the plot.