Death by Party Run: A Hilarious Feel-Good Cozy Mystery

About Death by Party Run: A Hilarious Feel-Good Cozy Mystery

A new apartment. A packed housewarming party. And a quick trip to the store that goes terribly wrong.

On San Malvino, getting your first place is a milestone worth celebrating. Shiny new keys, cheap furniture, way too many guests, and nowhere near enough drinks. But the festivities take a dark turn when the host steps out to grab another bottle and never returns.

By morning, the party is dead, the apartment is trashed, and no one can keep their story straight. Some guests claim the host slipped out alone. Others swear they saw them talking to someone.

And the clerk at the bodega down the block insists they never made it through the door. When Rafa takes the case, he expects a routine missing persons file. Instead, he uncovers a five-minute walking route riddled with blind spots and a disappearance that defies logic.

He calls Mendoza in, and a chilling realization quickly sets in: someone knew exactly when the host would be vulnerable. While Mendoza tries to untangle a timeline from a night no one remembers clearly, Alex, Reg, and Bombay hit the pavement, retracing a short walk that should have been entirely uneventful. Can the team uncover the truth before the trail goes completely cold?

It's past midnight on San Malvino.