The World's Greatest Detective and Her Just Okay Assistant

De: Liza Tully

Narrado por: Emma Ladji

A great detective's young assistant yearns for glory, but first they have learn to get along in this delightful feel good mystery.

Olivia Blunt doesn't want to be an assistant detective for the rest of her life. She's determined to learn everything she can from her mentor and renowned investigator, Aubrey Merritt, but the latter is no easy grader.

After weeks of fielding phone calls from parties desperate for the world-renowned detective’s help, a case comes across Olivia’s desk that just might be worthy of Merritt’s skills. On the evening of her sixty-fifth birthday party, Victoria Summersworth somehow fell over her balcony railing to her death on the rocky shore of Lake Champlain. She was a happy woman—rich, beloved, in love, and matriarch of the preeminent Summersworth family. The police have ruled it a suicide, but her daughter Haley thinks it was murder.

Merritt is ever the skeptic, but Olivia believes Haley. Plus, she’s desperate to prove her investigative skills to her aloof boss. But the Summersworth family drama is a complicated web.

Olivia realizes she might be in over her head with this whole detective thing... or she might be unravelling a mystery even bigger than the one she’d started with.

©2025 Liza Tully (P)2025 Penguin Audio

The storyline and characters kept me intrigued and not wanting to stop listening

This story had enjoyable characters, a catchy storyline, and was well read. Also it is quite humorous..I found myself laughing out loud in many parts of the

The Voices in my Head!

I really enjoyed how Liza Tully used the two main characters as different voices. It seemed like the detective was my analytical approach to solving life's riddles, and the assistant was my emotional side. Whenever I found myself trying to solve the case while reading, one of the characters would ask the question I was thinking. It is brilliantly written and kept me on the edge of my seat (or step as I listened to it while walking). It needs to be the start of a series...please!

Good story, but could have been shorter.

Great narrator and good story. The editor should have lopped around two chapters off though.

An engaging mystery

I can honestly say that I enjoyed every minute of this book. The characters were relatable and interesting. The story moved rapidly to a surprising conclusion. Wonderful! The reader Emma Ladji was perfect.

Kept me guessing until the end

I enjoyed this mystery. I’m hoping there will be more books written with these PI’s!

Lots of twists and turns

Loved how we were learning just as the main character was- a new assistant, learning how to investigate and making mistakes. Tons of suspects and lots of twists - plenty of layers to keep you guessing until the final chapters!

just okay, main character is annoying

started off seeming like it was going to be a really fun story but it was not that interesting, the characters were very middle of the road and a bit obvious choices, and the main character was very annoying and kept rattling off on completely irrelevant items

Boring and cliche

Fun premise but poorly written, overly saccharine, and also (spoiler alert) falls into offensive cliches about lesbians. Disappointed.