The Other Half

YOU KNOW HOW THEY LIVE. THIS IS HOW THEY DIE.

The night before

Rupert's 30th is a black tie dinner at the Kentish Town McDonald's - catered with cocaine and Veuve Clicquot.

The morning after

His girlfriend Clemmie is found murdered on Hampstead Heath. All the party-goers have alibis. Naturally.

This investigation is going to take Detective Inspector Caius Beauchamp down a rabbit hole of Classics degrees and aristocrats, Instagram influencers and who knows who. Or is it whom? Caius isn't sure - can he pin any of them down long enough to see how the other half live, before anyone else dies?

'One of the most exciting new voices in crime fiction.' ERIN KELLY
'A fresh, bitingly witty take on the whodunnit.' RED
'Brilliantly compulsive . . . I could not stop reading this book.' DENISE MINA
'Sharply witty . . . an enticing blend of frothy social satire and deadly serious detective work.' Daily Mail

©2023 Charlotte Vassell (P)2023 Faber & Faber

Best I can say is I finished it

As others have said, the male narrator is annoying. I had to turn the volume up when the book switched from female to male and back down again. The story is not unique and the mystery who done it seemed irrelevant by the time we reached it. I have no desire to read another book by this author. I gave it a three overall as I did finish it, not bad enough to return.

Terrible...

It's a terrible book, and I would not recommend it. The storytelling is poor, and I had to reread chapters several times. The way the detectives get closer to the truth along the story is not realistic at all. So much of the book doesn't add up.