Pomona Afton Can So Solve a Murder

"Enormously fun, witty, and warm, Pomona Afton is the heiress-turned-underdog that you'll definitely be rooting for."--Kristin Perrin, nationally bestselling author of How to Solve Your own Murder

A spoiled heiress must investigate her grandmother's death in order to gain back her trust fund, all while discovering how to be her own person and maybe even in falling in love in this rom-com meets murder mystery.

When Pomona Afton, Upper East Side hotel heiress, stumbles out of a gala and upon the scene of her grandmother's murder, her first thought is that the society queen won't be missed for her kind, cookie-baking ways. In fact, she was mean, greedy, and paranoid--so paranoid that she secretly slipped a clause into her will mandating that, should she die an unnatural death, all the family assets get frozen. And if the "unnatural death" isn't explained? Those accounts stay frozen.

Practically overnight, Pomona is locked out of her penthouse with no other option than to move in with a roommate: Gabe, the irritable (yet handsome) son of her former nanny. Not only is his apartment cramped, but it doesn't even have a doorman. Or a chef! Pom needs someone to solve this murder, like, yesterday, so she can get her trust fund back.

And Gabe? He needs this murder solved because that's the only way his mother, who toiled for the Afton family for years, will ever get the retirement money she deserves. As Pom's family clams up, blocking the police at every turn, Pom quickly realizes that if she wants her glamorous life back, she's going to have to put on her big-girl Manolos and do it herself...with the help of Gabe, who she's falling for more and more by the day.

Can Pomona Afton (who previously couldn't solve a crossword in the bath on a hungover Sunday) actually solve this murder? And if she does return to her former life of luxury, will it be worth the possibility of losing Gabe?

Author: Bellamy Rose
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 03/18/2025
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.9lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.20w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781668075654


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 12/01/2024 pg. 3
Publishers Weekly 12/16/2024
Booklist 02/01/2025 pg. 34
Kirkus Reviews 03/15/2025

About the Author
Bellamy Rose has never solved an actual murder. When she's not writing about them, she spends her time trying to taste every cuisine in the world, befriending all the animals she meets, and publishing non-murdery rom-coms as USA TODAY bestselling author Amanda Elliot. She lives with her husband and daughter in New York City.