A detective agency that wasn't really supposed to become a detective agency has a problem. People are starting to bring them actual cases. Emersyn and Wyatt are only a few weeks removed from their first investigation when a woman walks through the door convinced her brother's death wasn't what everyone says it was. This time their questions lead them into the world of funeral homes, where figuring out exactly what happened means getting much closer to the business of death than Emersyn probably had in mind.
We Are Never Ever Solving This Murder by Sarah Fox
Series: The Wyatt Investigations Mysteries #2
Genres: Cozy Mystery, Romantic Comedy

A fake detective agency. A real murder. And some very real sparks between the amateur sleuths attempting to solve it—unravel the clues in this captivating rom-com mystery from the author of Definitely Maybe Not a Detective.

Emersyn Gray isn’t convinced she’s cut out to be a private detective. She needs the money, but tailing cheating husbands isn’t exactly her dream job—and she’s not sure anyone would actually pay her to investigate anything.

Then a new client arrives at Wyatt Investigations, begging Emersyn and her colleague Wyatt to look into her brother’s death. He was fine until he started working at a local funeral home. Then he became secretive, withdrawn…and dead. The police say accident. His sister says murder. And after losing her own brother a year ago, Emersyn simply can’t walk away.

The deeper Emersyn and Wyatt dig, the more the funeral home starts to look like a front for something sinister. Between buried secrets, suspicious deaths, dangerous undercover work, undeniable chemistry, and an ongoing battle over who’s really in charge, they’ll have to uncover the truth fast—before they end up digging their own graves.

Tropes:😂🔎 Rom-Com Mystery 🕵️‍♀️ Amateur Sleuths 📋 Fake Detective Agency Turned Real 🤝 Coworkers / Partners 💕 Slow-Burn Chemistry ⚰️ Funeral-Home Mystery 🤎 Found Family 🥸 Undercover Investigation

Triggers:💀 Murder & Death 💔 Grief Over a Sibling 🔎 Suspicious Deaths ⚰️ Funeral Home / Death-Care Setting ⚠️ Danger During an Investigation

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I read the first Wyatt Investigations book only a couple of days before picking up We Are Never Ever Solving This Murder, so Emersyn, Wyatt, Theo, Livvy, and the wonderfully nosy residents of the Deco Mirage were still fresh in my mind. I had so much fun with that first book, and Sarah Fox gave me exactly what I wanted from their second investigation.

A woman comes to Wyatt Investigations because she doesn’t believe her brother’s death was an accident. Her suspicions lead Emersyn and Wyatt to a funeral home, and before long they’re investigating deaths, asking questions, and going undercover while trying to figure out whether there’s actually a murderer somewhere in the middle of all of this.

I don’t want to get much deeper into the mystery itself because half the fun is following the clues with them. I had questions about a few of their investigative methods and definitely had moments when I needed to suspend my disbelief. There were times when I thought, “Are we really doing this?” Then I decided to go with it because I was having too much fun with these characters to care.

Emersyn still makes me laugh because I’m not entirely convinced she wants to be a detective. She wants opinions. She wants a say in how Wyatt Investigations operates. She’ll argue about the requirements for becoming a PI. Then she’ll act like the actual detective part is something Wyatt and Theo can worry about right up until she throws herself directly into danger.

The funny thing is that Emersyn does bring something important to their investigations. She’s good with people. She notices behavior and gets a feeling when something isn’t quite right. Wyatt and Theo might be more interested in the mechanics of investigating, but Emersyn can get people talking in a way that matters.

And Theo is absolutely the brains of this operation. He’s seventeen, brilliant with computers, and somehow one of the most capable people involved. I loved him in the first book and loved him just as much here.

The Deco Mirage residents continue to be one of my favorite things about this series. Leona, Bitty, Jemma, Theo, and the others are always around, usually ready to help whether Emersyn asked for that help or not. They support her, drive her slightly crazy, and have become this wonderfully strange family surrounding Emersyn and Livvy.

That found family matters even more because Fox doesn’t forget why Emersyn and Livvy are together in the first place. Emersyn is still grieving her brother. She’s also trying to help her niece grieve her father while figuring out how to give Livvy some stability when Emersyn’s own life isn’t particularly stable. I appreciate that the series doesn’t treat that grief as something she worked through during the first book and can now leave behind. It comes back in ordinary moments because that’s what grief does.

Those scenes give Emersyn a vulnerability that works especially well beside all the ridiculous situations she gets herself into. This is a funny mystery, but the humor doesn’t erase the fact that her life changed completely when her brother died.

Then there’s Wyatt. I wondered during the first book why this wealthy son of a supermodel was so determined to have Emersyn working with him when she didn’t exactly arrive with an impressive list of investigative credentials. By this point, I think part of the answer is pretty simple.

He likes her. Their relationship was probably my favorite part of this book. The first investigation had much more of Emersyn trying to figure out who this strange man was and why he kept turning up in her life. Now they’re friends and partners, and she has to figure out what having Wyatt in her life could actually mean.

The banter is still there, but there’s more underneath it now. Those kisses in the first book changed something, even if neither of them is rushing to put a label on it. I loved the quieter moments when their feelings slipped through all the jokes and investigating.

I am completely invested in this slow burn. There are also plenty of Princess Diana quotes, which continue to make me smile, and the same slightly chaotic humor that made me enjoy the first book so much. If you like mysteries where the relationships between the characters matter just as much as figuring out who did what, this series has that balance.

I would definitely read the books in order. The mystery here is new, but Emersyn’s grief, her relationship with Livvy, everything developing with Wyatt, and the Deco Mirage found family all build directly from the first book.

And after what we learn toward the end? I need book three. There are things happening around this group that I have QUESTIONS about, and Sarah Fox had better be prepared to answer them.