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The Other Half

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'One of the most exciting new voices in crime fiction.' ERIN KELLY 'A fresh, bitingly witty take on the whodunnit.' RED 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? '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 WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐A perfectly horrid cast of over the top characters and an engaging detective. Glorious. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Such a fun, biting take on the thriller genre . . . I loved this book! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Highly recommend if you enjoy Lucy Foley, I raced through this in less than a day!
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    • Publisher's Weekly

      September 18, 2023
      Vassell’s crackling debut skewers England’s current crop of gilded youth. Rich, handsome Rupert Beauchamp, who’s about to inherit a title, throws himself a lavish 30th birthday party in London’s buzzy Kentish Town: it’s an ironic black-tie affair at the local McDonald’s, catered with buckets of champagne and mountains of cocaine. The next morning, while British-Jamaican detective Caius Beauchamp (no relation to Rupert) is out jogging, he happens upon the corpse of Rupert’s influencer girlfriend, Clemmie, in Hampstead Heath. Given that all the party attendees have alibis, the obvious suspect is Nell, a beautiful editor at a literary press whom Rupert has long planned to leave Clemmie for. Nell, however, has grown ambivalent about Rupert and his social circle, so Caius pursues other leads as well. His search takes him through a web of overprivileged suspects on whom the detective casts a half-contemptuous, half-envious eye, and eventually delivers him to the doorstep of a murderous, elite conspiracy. Vassell gleefully plunges into the underbelly of 21st-century entitlement, creating vivid sketches of aimless young Londoners gorging on designer clothes and designer drugs—sometimes at the expense of her core mystery. Still, as a diamond-sharp satirical whodunit in the vein of Liane Moriarty, this succeeds. Agent: Jon Wood, RCW Literary.

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