Riley Thorn and the Blast From the Past by Lucy Score is a one of its kind cozy mystery that also includes romance with a ridiculous & entertaining cast of characters that take you on an adventure where you never know what hilarity is coming next.

I am wondering if this could be considered the sub genre of cozy romantic suspense?! Either way, I gasped, I giggled & I was giddy reading this, which is the perfect reaction to reading a cozy story like this.

Riley Thorn and the Blast From the Past is great for fans of…
🩷 Cozy Mystery
🩷 Romance
🩷 Psychics
🩷 Unique Cast of Characters

I was glad to hear this is going to be a longer series because there are so many fantastic & funny characters with so many places to go. Lucy Score always delivers entertainment mixed with humor & heart. This series is no different & I can’t wait to see what her brain conjures up next.

If you are looking to try a cozy romantic suspense, I highly recommend trying the Riley Thorn series by Lucy Score!

Massive thanks to NetGalley & Bloom Books for the gifted copy, which I voluntarily read & reviewed.

Okay, I did not see the plot twist coming in this book! What served as a major issue in the background of the first two books now comes to a head in book three. The title is totally fitting as we meet several characters from Nick's former life, and who end up playing a major role throughout.

I really enjoyed this book, but out of the three this was probably my least favorite. It was so nice to finally have a book without Riley's ex taking up so much of the story, only to have him come back at the end made me <b>scream</b>. THEN, finding out that he's going to take up a huge role in the next book has me upset. I can't stand him and his girlfriend. They are the most annoying characters of any of her books. 😥 I really hope Lucy can work her magic and I still enjoy the next one.

As for the rest of the book, Riley's grandma doesn't play as big of a role so things are somewhat back to normal, but not any less zany! Our wily elderly neighbors are up to their old tricks of giving everyone heart attacks and our favorite furry friend is tooting up a storm as usual. I love this gang of misfits and enjoy how fun every chapter is!

Not a ton of spice, as we focus more on the plot this time. If you want a spicy mystery, this is not for you and I probably wouldn't recommend this series. ❤️ If you don't mind that, then you must must read it!

Book Review
Riley Thorne Series by Lucy Score includes:
1.The Dead Guy Next Door - features Dickie the neighbour found dead next door
2.Corpse in the Closet- features glitter bombs
3.Blast from the Past - features the mystery surrounding Kellen’s sisters disappearance
4.Body in the Backyard - features Griffin aka asshat ex

What Its Got
✅Meddling, shining star seniors
✅Banter, humour, wit, apt descriptors, visuals that embed themselves on your psyche
✅Psychics
✅Dogs
✅Mansion/flophouse
✅Police chases, breaking rules and procedures
✅Guys flexing their testosterone
✅Girls flexing their badass selves
✅Sneaking and stalking
✅Asshat ex husband
✅Enemies to lover
✅Forced proximity
✅Found family
✅Disability rep
✅ Free spirits and stick in the muds

Cast of crazy characters
MMC- Nick
FMC- Riley
Burt the dog
PIs - Josie, Brian
Mansion - Fred, Mrs Penny, Mr Willicott, Lily
Psychics- Blossom, Wander, Gabe
BFF- Jasmine and Kellen
Channel 50- Griffin, Bella, Chris

Thoughts
📕 I loved way each book starts off the same way- with a current event depicting a crime/victim - Then - the book shifts to the past building up to the present timeline
📕Score’s characters are epic! I want to be Mrs Penny when I grow up- this book is bursting with cocktails and shit disturbers and profound chaos in the BEST way
📕 Nick Santiago can be my protector anyday
📕 this series feels like a TV show Cocktail - think a shot of Superstore, a shot of Murder She Wrote with a bit of a Reality tv chaser mixed in
📕the reader is so swept up in the characters shenanigans and solving the mystery that the romance takes a back seat- until a carefully crafted burst of sexual energy and activity reminds us that our MCs have needs

Overall
Binged all 4 books in 2 days!!! I would easily
Keep reading more books about these characters

Thanks to @netgalley and @sourcebooks for my digital ARCs in return for an honest review. Opinions expressed are
My own!

The Blast from the Past is the third installment in the Riley Thorn trilogy. This book boasts a captivating storyline, well-developed characters, and thrilling action sequences. It is the perfect series to unwind with during the summer months.

Riley Thorn’s adventure keeps going with this third book in the series. After some surprising news was given in the last book, Riley’s boyfriend, Nick is trying to find his ex-partners sister, Beth. While Nick is working non-stop, Mrs. Penny is calling the shots on their assignments. Unfortunately, Riley’s physic abilities are on the fritz which cause the investigation to go haywire.

I really wanted to like this book but I just couldn’t. It seemed all over the place and I couldn’t keep all the characters straight. I do enjoy Mrs. Penny and her shenanigans as well as Nick and Riley’s relationship. I’m debating on if I want to read the fourth book when it comes out. I probably will, just to see where Nick and Riley land. Overall, I would say skip it unless you’re really invested in the series.

I didn’t know this was part of a series when I requested this—and a 3rd installment at that—so I won’t finish it.

After reading the author for the first time, I am at a point of wanting to read the author and everything I read by her I have enjoyed a lot.
This book specifically I didn't know it was part of a tetralogy (and I read this one without reading any of the previous ones), but I still had no problem following the plot. Although I do think it would have been ideal to read the other three books before reading this one (and I will), the author introduces you very well in the universe and you can follow even the romantic plot that comes from the first book. It's also easy, because even though the relationship is already established their plot in the book is introduced here.

The Lucy Score books are so fun to read! I love this series and flew through all of them so fast! These are perfect for summer. Really enjoyed them!

I didn’t quite enjoy this one as much as the other two but this is still a great series. The humor is just the best! I laugh out loud so much and it’s great. My favorite part of this was Mrs Penny. Got to love her. The next book should be an interesting one! So excited to start it!

Thank you to Netgalley, the publishers and the author Lucy Score. I loved every second of this four star novel. I read the first book in the series and if your into a good mystery you will enjoy The Blast From The Past.

I loved this just as much as the first in the series. Lucy Score never fails to make the readers laugh and have good time. This was fast paced and the romance was chef's kiss.

I just love Riley Thorn and company. I found this installment to be maybe a teeny bit less enthralling than the others, but I still highly recommend. I enjoyed that we got a bit more back story on Weber, and look forward to more of his involvement in the future books for sure. I am glad that we solved the Beth mystery. She was a fun addition to the crew, and I hope that we get to see more of her and Tommy in the future. I love how Lucy Score can create such a fun story with mystery but still tie it all together at the end! It was fun, flirty, and I cannot wait to read more about Riley and Nick and their supporting characters.

Thanks to NetGalley and the publishers for an advanced copy of this book. All opinions within this review are my own.

Thank you to NetGalley and SOURCEBOOKS Bloom Books for this ARC!

The 3rd installment of the Riley Thorne series had me laughing so hard. Riley and Nick and the rest of the cast of quirky characters just make me smile. There were so many twists and turns in this book that it really kept me guessing! I am rally enjoying getting lost in this series.

Really recommend this series to anybody that needs a laugh and likes a good mystery mixed in with some romance

Reading the first two books in this series my my cheeks and face hurt because I laughed and smiled so much . This book my stomach hurt because it was so finny. From the banter, the quirky characters, the plot and everything in between was amazingly funny.
I do t know how you do it!!

This was a great book to pass my vacation at the river with. It is, what I would call, Romantic-Suspense Lite. Nothing to tax your brain over, perfect to drop into and out of. With all the interruptions of vacation time, I loved being able to pick up where I left off without losing the thread of the story. This plot thread has been hanging out there since the first book and I liked how Beth/ Sesame just crashed into everyone's life with the answers to her disappearance coming straight from a Hollywood Rom-Com. The humor, senior moments and doggy good times made this a fantastic summer read.

Riley Thorn's grandmother dearest dropped a bomb on her and her sexy private investigator boyfriend and Nick has been on a mission ever since. They have just moved into a derelict fixer upper, and all Nick can focus on is finding Beth, who disappeared without a trace six years ago. Riley is feeling mighty neglected, and She want the old Nick back, not this obsessed model. Nick is even ignoring current cases, and everyone has just about had it with him.

Mrs. Penny and the Senior gang from next door just don't seem to understand boundaries. Like a closed, locked door means they don't want visitors. But Mrs. Penny has some cases and in order to get everyone off his back, Nick agrees to take them on. A bully, a clown thief and a doggy doody bandit. Such fun!

Life gets really weird when Beth Weber shows up calling herself Sesame and looking like she won the lottery, but with a real thin explanation for where she has been for six years. When Riley tries to read her, her psychic abilities go on the fritz which leaves her in psychic limbo. Then a deadly warning is dropped on her doorstep, and it looks like Beth may have been up to no good for those six missing years.

With Halloween fast approaching and with it, Nick's birthday, Riley is bulldozed into a Halloween/Suprise Birthday Party. Believe me, nothing good comes from this situation. But Nick finally has his answers as to what Beth was up to for all those years, and it was indeed no good.

My thanks to the Publisher and Author for providing a complimentary digital Advanced Reader Copy (ARC) of this novel via NetGalley. This is my fair, honest and personal review. All opinions are mine alone and were not biased in any way.

Another fun escape from Lucy Score and the ridiculous antics of Riley Thorn. There Burt and Gabe and all the neighbors in on this adventure, along with an odd smell coming from the closet. There’s a bully that needs to be put in his place, and the whole cast of characters from her previous novels. It’s just a fun wonky escape! Thanks to NetGalley for the read!

The only Lucy Score books I’ve read are the Knockemout series books, which I adored! I know those books have an element of mystery/thriller to them at times with the crime, so I was eager to read a book more centered around that. However, it just didn’t quite hit the same for me! Overall, it was well-written but it didn’t captivate my interest like others.

This whole series is just fun chaos. Nick & Riley, their senior adoptees, crazy families, and Burt- all integral parts of the chaos. The romance seemed to take a backseat in book 3 to what COULD have been a big drama/case, but instead ended up with me just feeling bad for Weber, Nick, and Riley and then being annoyed with said case personas and shaking my head at Nick.

I love any story from Lucy Score and this is no exception! I love that RIley and Nick are settling into their relationship more and more, while weaving intrigue into the story.

Another great addition to the Riley Thorn series. Did find this one a little slow at times. But, it still had a good premise and all of the characters readers have come to love from the series. I know there is one more book in the series coming out in July (and hopefully more after that), which I plan to read. Hoping we will finally find out where Gabe is from, because I am very curious. (Thanks to Sourcebooks and Netgalley for the ARC)