Additional Review A - British Quiz-show host and comedian becomes a novelist?
We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
After having so much fun completing my monthly reading challenge last year, I embarked on some other challenges this year. Namely to visit every library my Wake County Library Card gives me access to. This challenge saw me driving to the other side of the city to a somewhat dicey neighborhood with a tiny library tucked into the corner of a strip mall next to a police station. They were holding a kids storytime dance party. While we were there, the librarian boasted of having just bought a bunch of brand new books that no-one had checked out yet. They weren't even on the shelves yet but on a pile on her desk. I immediately recognized the name Richard Osman although I wasn't sure from where. After some googling I found out he created and hosted the show "pointless" in the uk. I wasn't sure what credentials such a career has for writing a crime novel but thought I would give it a try.
Reader, I am happy to announce that game show host is apparently the perfect apprenticeship for writing crime novels because this book was a beauty. I loved it. It's a twisty turny whodunnit worthy of the queen of crime (all hail Agatha Christie), and it has fantastic characters and laugh out loud dialogue too! Just fantastic.
Ok, so I have to admit, I didn't read all of it in print. My library loan expired as I took a week to get round to starting it. So once I had returned it, I borrowed the audiobook instead and finished it off that way. Not quite obeying my rules there. Although I was thinking - maybe I should review audiobooks and kindle books too? Maybe.