The book cover for The Other Half by Charlotte Vassell has the tagline 'You Know How They Love. This is How They Die' at the bottom and the quotes '[A] highly entertaining and satirical whodunnit.' Evening Standard and 'Gripping, funney, enraging and incisive.' Erin Kelly

The image has a black background with the outline of a female face and upperbody on the left. She's wearing one long, dagger shaped earring and the orange clothing she's wearing breaks out into a splash under and around the title which is superimposed across her upper body.

You know how they live. This is how they die...

Rupert's 30th birthday party is a black-tie dinner at the Kentish Town McDonald's—catered with cocaine and expensive champagne. The morning after, his girlfriend Clemmie is found murdered on Hampstead Heath, a single stiletto heel jutting from under a bush.

Who killed Clemmie? Was it the blithe, sociopathic boyfriend? His impossibly wealthy godmother? The gallery owner with whom Clemmie was having an affair? Or was it the result of something else entirely?

All the party-goers have alibis. Naturally. This investigation is going to be about aristocrats and Classics degrees, Instagram influencers and whose father knows who.

Or is it 'whom'? Detective Caius Beauchamp isn't sure. He's sharply dressed, smart, and thoroughly modern—he discovers Clemmie's body on his early morning jog. As he searches for the dark truth beneath the luxurious life of these London socialites, a wall of staggering wealth and privilege threatens to shut down his investigation before it's even begun. Can Caius peer through the tangled mess of connections in which the other half live—and die—before the case is wrenched from his hands? Bitingly funny, full of shocking twists, and all too familiar.

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