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We Solve Murders by Richard Osman Narrator: Nicola Walker
Series: We Solve Murders #1
Published by Penguin Audio on September 17, 2024
Genres: Mystery, Thriller
Length: 10 hours, 32 minutes
Format: Audiobook
Source: Publisher
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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.
Amy Wheeler thinks adrenaline is good for the soul. As a private security officer, she doesn’t stay still long enough for habits or routines. She’s currently on a remote island keeping world-famous author Rosie D’Antonio alive. Which was meant to be an easy job...
Then a dead body, a bag of money, and a killer with their sights on Amy have her sending an SOS to the only person she trusts. A breakneck race around the world begins, but can Amy and Steve stay one step ahead of a lethal enemy?
I was very excited to see the start of a new series by Richard Osman. His development of characters is smart and a bit funny. Anyway, whether a good guy or a villain, one can’t help but grow to like the characters. They are people either way.
We Solve Murders begins with Amy who is a bodyguard currently, for a famous novelist, Rosie. When things go sideways and bodies start turning up in Amy’s previous clients, she turns to her father-in-law, because he is someone she can trust.
Steve is an ex-cop, retired, and grieving the loss of his wife, Bonnie. He has his comfortable little routine at home, with his buddies in the bar and his cat, Trouble. But Amy is important to him so he will help her even if he doesn’t want to leave home. Plus he is really good at deducing who the villains are and what they are doing.
Rosie is a wild, rich woman and really she’s a hoot. Of course, she comes along to support Amy and Steve. In addition to these three points of view, we get some of the bad guys and assassin’s thoughts who are after them.
With Rosie as a distraction, Amy as protection and Steve’s keen discernment of people, they solve the murders. Well, they all do their part on distraction, protection and discernment really. It’s a smart, hilarious journey and I can’t wait for more.
Narration:
Nicola Walker is quite new to me as a narrator. I have listened to her once previously in a full cast production. I loved her performance for both male and females, with distinct voices for the primary characters. The accents seemed appropriate. I listened comfortably at 1.5x speed.
Listen to a clip: HERE
About Richard Osman
Richard Osman is an author, producer and television presenter. The Thursday Murder Club is his first novel. He is well known for TV shows including Pointless and Richard Osman’s House of Games. As the creative director of Endemol UK, Richard has worked as an executive producer on numerous shows including Deal Or No Deal and 8 Out of 10 Cats. He is also a regular on panel and game shows such as Have I Got News For You, Would I Lie To You and Taskmaster.
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I knew this would be good! Great review, Anne💜 And Nicola Walker is a favorite narrator. She’s an actress and I’ve loved two of her TV shows.
yes thank you. I enjoyed Nicola Walker here. The emotional tones were perfect.
I’ve never read this author, but wow this sounds good! I love that it’s the first in a series. I may need to start it😁
Thanks Tammy. I really enjoy this author and this series is another winner. He creates the most endearing characters.
I’m excited for this one too! I just put a hold on it at my library.
It’s so charming. The author is a genius at smart, odd characters.
Review twins. I devoured this and loved it. His characters are fantastic.
Absolutely!
Love that the new series starter is win. I still need to read his previous series.
They are all amazing. Richard Osman is great with characters.
While I would love another Thursday Murder Club book…I’m so excited to see what new kind of story he has decided to write.
It’s awesome. He just does so well with the characters. And I love a good murder mystery.
I just saw Richard Osman’s episode of Who Do You Think You Are on YouTube and was absolutely delighted. I read Thursday Murder Club and really enjoyed it and have been wanting to read more from him. This looks like a good one.
It’s excellent. He just does his characters so well.
Oooo this sounds like a nice mystery!
It is and plenty of suspects without me guessing who is the villain.
I think I always like the covers for this author even though the books aren’t my type of read. Glad you enjoyed this one!
His books are so fun and charming with endearing characters that I think they are everyone’s kind of books.