Why You'll Love This
When your ex turns up dead in the town that knows all your secrets, grief and suspicion become impossible to untangle.
- Great if you want: mysteries rooted in race, class, grief, and community tension
- The experience: measured and emotionally layered — more introspective than action-driven
- The writing: Pitts weaves personal loss into the investigation without softening either
- Skip if: you prefer fast-paced plots over character-driven emotional depth
About This Book
When Vandy Myrick's ex-husband turns up dead, she's pulled back into a relationship she thought she'd closed the chapter on — and into a town that never quite lets anyone escape their history. Set in Queenstown, New Jersey, Death of an Ex moves through layers of grief, race, class, and complicated love with the kind of emotional honesty that makes the mystery feel secondary to the human stakes underneath it. Vandy isn't just solving a case; she's reckoning with the version of herself she left behind, and that tension gives every scene a charge that a straightforward whodunit rarely achieves.
Delia C. Pitts writes with a precision that rewards close attention — her sentences carry weight without calling attention to themselves, and her portrait of a small Black community where everyone knows your name and your business is rendered with warmth and clear-eyed specificity. The second installment in the Vandy Myrick series deepens what the first book established, giving returning readers more texture and new readers enough grounding to feel fully at home in Q-Town from the opening pages.
