Can’t Wait Wednesday – The Other Half by Charlotte Vassell @CharlotteVass1 @PRHAudio @librofm

Can’t-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we’re excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they’re books that have yet to be released. It’s based on Waiting on Wednesday that was hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine.

As soon as I read this book’s description, it jumped onto my shelf! It’s got everything you’d want in this style of mystery. I’ve already gotten it for audio review so it’s coming up soon as it’s scheduled for release on November 21.

Description
You know how they live. This is how they die.

Clemmie is dead. Who killed her? Was it the blithe, sociopathic boyfriend? His impossibly wealthy godmother? The art gallery owner Clemmie was having an affair with? Or was it just a drug deal gone wrong? Or perhaps a byproduct of the bourgeois artifact smuggling ring?

Rupert’s 30th birthday party 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, a single stiletto heel jutting from under a bush. All the party-goers have alibis. Naturally. This investigation is going to be about aristocrats and Classics degrees, Instagram influencers and whose father knows who.

Or is it ‘whom’? Detective Caius Beauchamp isn’t sure. He’s sharply dressed, smart, and thoroughly modern—he discovers Clemmie’s body on his early morning jog. As he searches for the dark truth beneath the luxurious life of these London socialites, a wall of staggering wealth and privilege threatens to shut down his investigation before it’s even begun. Can Caius peer through the tangled mess of connections in which the other half live—and die—before the case is wrenched from his hands? Bitingly funny, full of shocking twists, and all too familiar, The Other Half is a stunning debut from your next favorite crime writer.

Book Info

• Release Date: November 21, 2023
• Audiobook Narrators: Imogen Wilde & Michael Muyunda
• Audio Length: 9 hours, 5 minutes
• Print/Digital Page Numbers: 368
• Publishers: Anchor (print &digital); Random House Audio (audio)

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