We Solve Murders
A Novel
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4.4 • 982 Ratings
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
“Madcap fun, with an entertaining new cast of characters and Osman’s trademark wit. Delightful!” —Shari Lapena
From the #1 bestselling author of The Thursday Murder Club Series
A brand new mystery. An iconic new detective duo. And a thrilling new murder to solve . . .
Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He still does the odd bit of investigation work, but he prefers his familiar routines: the pub quiz, his favorite bench, his cat waiting for him at home. His days of adventure are over. Adrenaline is daughter-in-law Amy’s job now.
Amy Wheeler thinks adrenaline is good for the soul. Working in private security, every day is dangerous. She’s currently on a remote island protecting mega-bestselling author Rosie D’Antonio, until a dead body and a bag of money mean trouble in paradise. So she sends an SOS to the only person she trusts . . .
As a thrilling race around the world begins, can Amy and Steve outrun and outsmart a killer?
Solving murders. It’s a family business.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
British-TV-personality-turned-mystery-novelist Richard Osman is back with a new series that’s high-octane fun. Amy Wheeler is a private bodyguard for a major international firm, currently on duty on a South Carolina island protecting Rosie D’Antonio, an aging and eccentric thriller author. Amy’s father-in-law, Steve, a retired London cop turned self-appointed private investigator for his sleepy village in the south of England, gets reluctantly pulled into Amy’s case when a mysterious smuggler attempts to pin a series of murders of small-time social media influencers on her. And the two of them—plus Rosie, who hasn’t had such a good time in years—turn out to be a pretty swell team. Osman writes here with just as much laugh-out-loud wit and sincere empathy as in his best-selling cozy Thursday Murder Club series, but the pace is faster and the stakes are higher. This book simply flies past, and every page is an absolute delight.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestseller Osman (the Thursday Murder Club mysteries) launches a promising new series with this sprightly tale of a father- and daughter-in-law who join forces to take down a shadowy killer. At the outset, bodyguard Amy Wheeler is on an island off the coast of South Carolina shielding bestselling novelist Rosie D'Antonio from a Russian oligarch who threatened to kill her after she used his real name in her latest book. While Amy and Rosie discuss the recent deaths of two popular influencers, someone takes a shot at them, and they narrowly escape. Meanwhile, private detective Steve Wheeler—father to Amy's husband, Adam—is in the Hampshire village of Axley searching for a client's lost dog when Amy calls to ask for his backup. He agrees, and as he helps Amy try to determine who tried to kill her (and why), more influencer bodies start piling up, the crime scenes strewn with evidence framing Amy for the murders. Steve and Amy then embark on a globetrotting quest to pin down their adversary that takes them from Ireland to Dubai. Osman pulls off the tricky task of making his leads both zany and human, with a sufficiently brain-teasing mystery to boot. This series is sure to garner a loyal following.
Customer Reviews
New series
Loved Steve and Amy
The twists were a bit predictable
Thoroughly enjoyable
Keep you interested and amused in the building of the characters and plot. Definitely will read more by this author.
We solve murders
I really like the characters in his books. I can imagine myself there with them with his descriptions of what they are doing as they converse. Exciting and humorous. I love all his books.