Another fab audiobook outing with The Thursday Murder Club, this time in the company of Fiona Shaw rather than Lesley Manville.
VAT fraud, regional TV stars, investigative journalists, romance and relationships.
Keep them coming, Richard Osman!
Publisher page: The Bullet That Missed – Richard Osman
The myth of Medusa from a female perspective. Excellent.
Author page: Stone Blind – Natalie Haynes
More of a modern WhoDidWhat than WhoDunnIt.
Martin, an underdog – and not a plucky one, engineers protection for himself at public school by becoming the best friend of one of the most popular boys there, Ben, and thence into the circles of the posh, privileged, powerful and – peripherally – political.
As we follow the friendship, the boy’s / mens’ other relationships and the fall out from Ben’s 40th Birthday Party, the plot is revealed from a pair of perspectives – Martin’s and that of his wife, Lucy.
I enjoyed this more than Magpie.
Author page: The Party – Elizabeth Day
Marisa, Jake, Kate, Annabelle and Chris.
A plot that twists and turns through a modern tale of relationships and family, pregnancy and infertility, motherhood and mental health.
Author page: Magpie – Elizabeth Day
Back to 1st Century AD Rome and some Flavia Albia sleuthing, this time into an unpaid bar bill which soon develops into a much more complicated case.
I found it hard keeping track of all the characters in the two warring families, partly because there are a lot of them but mainly because of how Roman personal names work; siblings and parents / children all share some of the same names.
Author page: Fatal Legacy – Lindsey Davis