How to Have a Killer Time in D.C. (Oliver Popp's Travel Guides to Murder, #1)
Sam Lumley
A young gay autistic travel writer takes a head-spinning detour when murder and romance unbalance his well-planned life and career in this fun, quirky debut mystery. Autism is just another fact of life for twenty-four-year-old Oliver Popp. As long as he sticks to a comfortable itinerary planned well in advance, he gets by just fine as a staff writer for Offbeat Traveler magazine. But a curve ball drops into Oliver’s budding career when his first feature assignment takes him to Washington, D.C. to chronicle the latest tourism trends. His freelance project photographer is Ricky Warner, a gregarious and impulsively adorable shot of adrenaline. If the flirty gay photographer isn’t enough to unbalance shy Oliver from the get-go, there’s also an unsettling chance encounter with old acquaintance, Elise Perkins, and a congressional hearing that’s shaking up both the Capitol and an entrepreneurial billionaire. The unexpected distractions soon collide when a speeding car kills Elise. Funny how she just stared it down like she knew it was coming. Forget the National Mall and Mt. Vernon Square. Oliver and Ricky are game for something much more: solving a mystery and a murder.
Publication Year: 2025
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Thank you NetGalley and Kensington for access to this e-ARC in exchange for an honest review. Oh my gosh, I'm so glad I requested this ARC! The premise sounded good to me, but honestly it exceeded expectations! First, the 'who dunnit' of it all really kept me going until the very end. I did guess correctly, but there was a lot of context clues I had to pay attention to to realize what was going on. Next, the CHEMISTRY between Oliver and Ricky 🥵. Watching their relationship blossom from strangers to kind of friends to maybe something more had me begging for more. I definitely will be continuing this series solely to see what happens to the both of them next. And lastly, the representation was *chefs kiss* AMAZING. The BIPOC people throughout, the queerness, the neurodiversity, just everything was so amazingly well written. I genuinely look forward to reading the next installment of this series, and seeing where adventure takes Oliver and Ricky next!
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