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2 months ago | 
audible.com | Marie E. Benedict |Agatha Christie |Richard Osman |Zadie Smith
I am obsessed with audiobooks. I don’t mean that I simply enjoy them and that they’ve become a regular part of my already voracious reading routine. I mean that I have audiobooks playing constantly throughout my day, that I’ve developed the habit of long walks wearing my headset, and that I volunteer to drive far distances so I can extend my listening times.
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
inkl.com | Richard Osman |Marina Hyde
Licence fee well spent … Claudia Winkleman, host of The Traitors. Photograph: Euan Cherry/BBC/Studio Lambert January is almost over, but regrettably that means that so too is The Traitors. Watching the Beeb’s televised take on wink murder has become a bright spot in this gloomy portion of the year for many, but at 8.30pm tonight it all ends with a tantalisingly setup finale.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
l8r.it | Richard Osman |Sarah J. Maas |Freida McFadden |Colleen Hoover
In 2024, Fiction achieved its highest sales since accurate records began, surpassing the previous peak by an impressive £50 million. This remarkable performance helped the overall British book market remain steady year-on-year, despite challenges in the Non-Fiction sector and declining revenues for many big-name authors.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
aboutamazon.co.uk | Freida McFadden |Sarah J. Maas |Colleen Hoover |Richard Osman
Amazon has revealed the bestselling and most read books of the year for 2024. Freida McFadden’sThe Housemaidtopped the bestsellers list, followed by Colleen Hoover’s BookTok sensation It Ends With Uswhich was released as a film adaptation this year. The ongoing success of these titles also reflects one of the dominant trends in contemporary publishing: the power of social media to drive book sales.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
pantagraph.com | Richard Osman |Alexander Smith |Jesse Q Sutanto |Leonie Swann
A wave of mysteries feature sleuths who are more likely to pore over clues while clicking away at their knitting than to race down an alley after a maniac. Here are five current series featuring older detectives with gumshoes who, like Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple and “Murder She Wrote’s” Jessica Fletcher, are lifelong learners. Because these characters have so much character, the books often de-emphasize crime solving and pump up humor and human interaction.
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Nov 7, 2024 | 
bismarcktribune.com | Richard Osman |Alexander Smith |Jesse Q Sutanto |Leonie Swann
A wave of mysteries feature sleuths who are more likely to pore over clues while clicking away at their knitting than to race down an alley after a maniac. Here are five current series featuring older detectives with gumshoes who, like Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple and “Murder She Wrote’s” Jessica Fletcher, are lifelong learners. Because these characters have so much character, the books often de-emphasize crime solving and pump up humor and human interaction.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
theindependent.com | Richard Osman |Alexander Smith |Jesse Q Sutanto |Leonie Swann
Everything old is old again in Richard Osman’s latest comic mystery, “We Solve Murders.”It’s not part of Osman’s “The Thursday Murder Club” series but is his fifth book to feature detectives who are old enough to collect pensions and read Modern Maturity. And it’s part of a wave of mysteries with sleuths who are more likely to pore over clues while clicking away at their knitting than to race down an alley after a maniac. Many current series feature older detectives, so it’s a legit trend.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Christina Lynch |Kathy Reichs |Richard Osman
Ever wished for “Black Beauty, Private Eye”? Wish no longer. The author says it all in the closing acknowledgments: this is “a book about a pony who solves a murder.”Twenty-five years after 12-year-old Penelope Marcus rode into the woods with Frank Ross, the owner of High Rise Farms, newly revealed evidence suggests that she bashed him to death.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Max Collins |Kathy Reichs |Richard Osman
“I’ve always been a softie,” the eponymous protagonist confides in his once-again partner in sex and crime. Yeah, right. Retired contract killer Quarry—don’t call him a hit man—gets pulled back into the ring by someone who’s stirred up even more trouble than he has: his adult daughter. Like her father, Susan Breedlove has written a string of true-crime books, but they’ve been much more successful than his.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Elizabeth Hobbs |Kathy Reichs |Richard Osman
Forget about solving all these crimes; the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine’s survival. Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. A week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it’s been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been.
