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Mercer, Jaymes

 
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Synopsis

Everyone dies with unfinished business. Delia Marsh died with a one-star review.



Delia Marsh kept receipts. Literal ones — a labeled folder for every tax year since 2016. So when her business partner hands her a coffee that tastes like a Christmas candle and her heart stops mid-pitch, she does what she always does: she files it.



The afterlife, it turns out, runs on an app.



Welcome to the Waiting Room — beige carpet, smooth-jazz hold music, and a bureaucracy that resolves every death with a five-star rating system. Your funeral gets reviewed. Your killer gets reviewed. And the entity at the top of it all is never named — around here, it's just "Corporate," and Corporate does not read its reviews. Until now.



Delia's official cause of death: "heart complications." Delia's actual cause of death: her business partner, a very good eulogy, and a coffee cup he signed with his own name.



With the reluctant help of a two-hundred-year-old customer success rep who's never once won an argument with the algorithm, Delia sets out to build the case, file the complaint, and leave the review that changes everything — before her killer is elected to city council on a 4.9-star reputation he doesn't deserve.



Perfect for readers who love:


  • Workplace comedy with real emotional stakes

  • Afterlife premises with heart underneath the jokes

  • A satisfying, non-violent justice arc — no cape, no crusade, just receipts

  • Found-family warmth wrapped in corporate-satire bite






Would Not Die Again.

Five stars. Terrible service. The most honest review you'll ever read.

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