First in a new series from The Thursday Murder Club author Richard Osman, WE SOLVE MURDERS uses many of the stylings and touches that make all his books very readable.
WE SOLVE MURDERS features two new main characters. Amy Wheeler is a close protection agent, working for a unique security company Maximum Impact Solutions, that, it turns out, is having issues of its own.
Her father-in-law, Steve Wheeler, is a retired police officer doing the odd bit of local investigation work - missing pets and the like. He's a regular at the local pub quiz, loves his cat called Trouble, and has a favourite bench in the park where he can sit and chat to his much missed and loved, dead wife Debbie. (He uses a dictaphone so that people don't think he's lost it completely). He's fond of the quiet life. Amy's life is anything but.
When Amy's assigned to the flamboyant novelist Rosie D'Antonio it sounds like a relatively straight forward job, even if she is being protected from a pissed off Russian oligarch who took exception to one of the characters in a recent book. Around the same time as the former Navy Seal that was hired to act as their private chef / backup protection goes a bit mad, it turns out that a number of "influencers", also client's of Maximum Impact, are dying off. Each time, not that far from where Amy is working, and it's not long before Amy seems to be prime suspect. She and Rosie put up a pretty good fight against the allegations, and somebody trying to kill one or both of them, on their own, but calling in Steve for assistance is the sort of big guns move that nobody would have expected, least of all Steve.
Similar tone to THE THURSDAY MURDER club series, with a lot more action, and some very funny, tongue in cheek lines, WE SOLVE MURDERS is silly, funny, highly entertaining, and a bit of a riproarer, with private planes, AI based email communications (with a reason I'd never even considered for using an AI system), and action, spills and the sort of escapes that only a wealthy, eccentric 80-something year old novelist with an attitude, and the mouth to match could help engineer. Meanwhile Amy's no slouch at a bit of close in combat, and her husband's just far enough removed to not panic too much about what his wife does for a living, but her father-in-law's not so convinced. Particularly when it involves him, makes him miss his cat, and the pub quiz night. Although the Guinness was a nice compensation. Sort of.
We Solve Murders
Steve Wheeler is enjoying retired life. He does the odd bit of investigation work, but he prefers his familiar habits and routines: the pub quiz, his favorite bench, his cat waiting for him when he comes home. His days of adventure are over: adrenaline is daughter-in-law Amy’s business now.
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