The Other Half: You know how they live. This is how they die.

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The Other Half: You know how they live. This is how they die.

The Other Half: You know how they live. This is how they die.

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Harry Bosch and the Lincoln Lawyer team up to exonerate a woman who’s already served five years for killing her ex-husband.

The Other Half felt predictable to me from the very beginning. The party, the murder, how the body was discovered, and who discovered it. This feeling never changed for me. This is Made in Chelsea meets Agatha, it has definite shades of the Queen of Crime with tangled webs, plot twists, red herrings and all that jazz. Maybe Caius will become the 21st-century Poirot! The ending is a good blend of the dramatic with the OTT ridiculous, which is great fun and highly entertaining. Methinks this is a winner and a new talent has emerged on the scene, well played Charlotte Vassell. Applause from the sidelines. I will admit that it took a short while until I realised that this novel was going to be somewhat different to the usual style of whodunnit. I find that crime fiction and especially police procedurals tend to be quite serious even if there is some banter between police detectives. Murderers can be so inconsiderate towards the police. I’m really looking forward to all the foaming tweets about closing the park for forty-eight hours.’ And it's Detective Caius Beauchamp who finds Cammie's body during his morning jog. What a coincidence.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? Here comes my favourite himbo,’ said Matt, Caius’s DS. He was looking Caius up and down with some amusement. ‘What are you wearing? I was worried that I would look a bit informal London is a filthy city. A dirty, putrid metropolis. What was he even going to do in Paris? What a ridiculous idea. Héloise didn’t want him. She’d said as much, but in French and therefore much more expressively.

Nell was a complex and interesting character. I didn't understand her love for Rupert, but did commend her for her loyalty and self-awareness. I also liked that she was part of the rich crowd but more relatable. I loved the setting, descriptions of the clothing and glamour, and the overall pretentiousness. The character names alone were pure gold! I really liked the author’s use of “transcripts” to give us the gist of some of the more brutal parts without going into excessive detail. Very clever. It’s something else, isn’t it? Thanks, mate. Oh, could you please get someone from your team to bag everything in the bins?’The detective, Caius Beauchamp was very well done, with his pretentious leanings and conspicuous consumption. I enjoyed him even when he came off as tedious. Beauchamp's DS, Matt, was also a good character. The third officer, whose name escapes me at the moment (which is a shame because she was the only woman in the group), was a good character as well.

I listened to this novel and typically love when each voice is narrated by a different individual, however, I really struggled with the male narrator in this instance. He was hard to understand and his voice was much lower in volume than the female. I felt like I was constantly adjusting the speed and volume and still never quite got it perfect. I really enjoyed this book and it had so many elements I love. Personally, I could have done with a bit more of the rich people and a little less of the investigation, but that could have been related to my dislike of the male narrator. Hampstead Heath Constabulary have closed the park and there are officers stationed at all the exits taking statements. The dogs are going to do a sweep once forensics are done with the immediate crime scene. It’s so much easier when people get killed in their own homes.’MY THOUGHTS: Clever, complex, and witty, there's nothing not to love about The Other Half, including the characters. Some I loved, some I vacillated about, and others I intensely disliked. Detective, you were the one to find the body. I thought you were in France?’ asked Barry, the masked pathologist looming over the open body bag.



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