We Solve Murders by Richard Osman

 

A very engaging novel, maybe less of a mystery than a broader thriller--while there is a murder mystery and it is solved, the road there takes many turns and detours. Delicious phrases fall out of Osman's writing like prizes from a kid's cereal box, and he has a feel for all the characters in the novel. The story is just a bit over-the-top, and the characters kinda tend that way, too, sometimes, though they do manage to remain recognizable as people. If I were looking for another writer of series fiction to read, reading Osman wouldn't be any kind of hardship.