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Grieve's First Investigation: A Milo Grieve Novel
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ISBN13: 9798176674293
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 24 2026
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.27 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Sep 24 2026
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.40
Height: 0.27 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Every house on that list is beautiful. That's how he knows they don't exist. Milo Grieve is 24, wears more eyeliner than anyone at his company, and writes property descriptions for a vacation rental startup in Pasadena. It is 2005. He drives a 1978 Firebird that won't start in the rain, plays keyboards in a goth band that isn't good, and has spent his whole life reading people without ever once being paid for it.
Then he notices something about 7 listings on his own website. Real owners write bad copy. They tell you about the hot tub and the thread count and how close it is to the outlets. These 7 are all mood and no detail, which means whoever wrote them has never been inside, which raises a question Milo cannot put down: is anybody actually living at these addresses? Asking it costs him more than he expects. A housekeeper quits and stops answering her phone. A street in Altadena turns out to have a gap in it. And a 24 year old with no license, no gun, no training and no business doing any of this finds himself in a county records office at 8 in the morning, learning that the fastest way to catch a liar is to go and stand in front of the building. He has a best friend in a polo shirt, two men on Colorado Boulevard who see everything and say nothing, and a woman from a makeup counter named Carmen AbadÃa who is not impressed by any of it and comes along anyway. Perfect for fans of wry amateur sleuth mysteries, 2000s period detail, found family crime fiction, and anyone who misses The Rockford Files.
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