“This beautiful, brave woman scared of dying, and this silly, cowardly man afraid of living.”

A widower, a best selling author and a young female bodyguard walk into a bar… or in this case, walk unto a Lear Jet.
In this first installment of a brand new cozy mystery series from author Richard Osman, his classic British humor remains intact.
Money laundering, social media influencing and murder create a plot web, ensnaring some very unlikely characters. Amy Wheeler is a young private security officer with an undisclosed past that makes her very good at her job. She has been tasked to keep beloved author Rosie D’Antonio safe at her South Carolina island residence. Amy’s father in law Steve has retired from police work and is grieving his wife of many years. He is trying to take comfort in his quiet, predictable life when Amy brings him in to help solve some murders having an eerie connection; murders that paint a target on Amy herself. Amy, Steve and Rosie embark on a hilarious and dangerous trek from South Carolina to Ireland, to Dubai and beyond in this clever who dunnit. Perhaps Mr. Osman’s greatest gift is how he writes unseen and under appreciated seniors, a skill honed in his previous works. Fans of The Thursday Murder Club books will be on high alert as to which periphery characters may resurface as the series continues (looking at you Carlos!) and I’m already looking forward to the next installment.

Thank you Net Galley, Penguin Group Viking/Pamela Dorman Books for the early copy in exchange for my honest review!

Fans of Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club will be pleased with his newest series- We Solve Murders. This has his signature wit and gift for crafting lovable characters. It is a globe trotting, fast-paced modern mystery. Be ready for lots of characters, lots of laughs and lots of heart. Out tomorrow 9/17 🕵🏼‍♀️🕵🏼‍♂️

Richard Osman has done it again with this new series comprising of a father and daughter-in-law. Amy Wheeler is a private security agent, she thrives on danger and cant imagine her life without action and adventure. Steve Wheeler is her father-in-law and is a retired police officer that dabbles in local investigative work. The last thing he wants in his life is excitement. He is very close to Amy and he loves to hear about all of her adventures, in fact he talks with her more often than he talks to his own son, Am’y husband. Amy gets involved in a situation while guarding a famous author and the only person she can trust is Steve. Reluctantly Steve finds himself on a plane and getting sucked into Amy’s crazy world as they are desperately trying to solve a murder and keep Amy alive!!

With his trademark humor and cleverness Osman creates another series that is loaded with great characters that are absolutely delightful! The story is filled with tense moments and a great mystery that kept me engaged the entire time. Did I love it as much as Thursday Murder Club? No, but that series has a special place in my heart— this was still so good and I will read every one in the series. So much fun!!

5 ⭐️

Thanks to NetGalley for the advanced copy in exchange for a honest review

Richard Osman is a whiz at not so cozy mysteries and his banter among characters is some of the most entertaining in recent memory. His star has been rising since the first Thursday Murder Club book, and his plotting and his deep dive into characters has become more nuanced and poignant with each release. With this new series, “We Solve Murders,” we begin again, this time featuring a tough as mylar young bodyguard, Amy, her retired reclusive widower father in law, Steve, and a cast of lovable, incorrigible, enigmatic, and sometimes horrific characters. Chief among them is Rosie D’Antonio, the sexy, outrageous celebrity author of a certain age, who has hired Amy through her agency, to protect her from death threats of a very angry Russian oligarch who was too thinly disguised in one of her novels. But it turns out, the person who is most at risk for execution is Amy herself, for reasons unknown to her, and the ruthlessness of her repeated attacks, causes her to doubt the motives of her employer. As the murders pile up and her situation becomes more complex and desperate, Amy reaches out to Steve, a former investigator, for help. Steve, quite reluctantly agrees; the bonds of love triumphing over the near inflexible bonds of routine. And then there’s Rosie, who blithely charges through any bonds of professional and personal propriety with moxie and unstoppable charm. The three of them go off on the hunt, over several continents and lush private jets, with the killer or killers usually ahead of them by several steps. Osman shifts POVs among hitmen kingpins, wanna-be influencers, and air-headed movie stars to great effect. A highlight is his portrayal of Steve, torn between the staid delights of his village home life, and the intrigue of trying something new, and yet familiar, like decoding a case. And then there is his very odd son, Adam, Amy’s husband. Some of the plot twists are a bit too twisty to be believable, and Osman does like to tie up loose ends with too convenient romances, but there is so much to enjoy here, particularly the sassy, ebullient Rosie. I’m not complaining and yes, I am already awaiting the next book.

For those who enjoyed the camaraderie of Joyce, Elizabeth, Ibrahim, and Ron in Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series, you’ll not be let down by the motley crew he’s crafted for We Solve Murders. Though they may be a more jet-setting lot (to be fair to Steve, some only under protest), seeing action in Dubai, Dublin, an undisclosed location on the South Carolina coast, and Hampshire, the familiar banter and jovial humor Osman’s characters bring to unraveling assassination attempts and international money laundering schemes will leave readers feeling like they are wrapped up in their favorite warm quilt while dangling their feet off a cliff’s edge.

I have thoroughly enjoyed Osman's Thursday Night Murder series, and this new novel was a delight as well. Amy works for an elite private security firm, but suddenly discovers that she has become a target herself. Her husband is in Dubai on business, so Amy turns to her father-in-law Steve for help. Steve lives a very quiet life in a small town in England, but he's a retired investigator, and Amy trusts him—something she can say about relatively few people. Buckle up for a romp around the globe, from private islands to Dubai, and St. lucia to Ireland. Amy and Steve, along with Rosie, a flamboyant writer, solve murders!

Hold the front door - it's the launch of a new mystery series by the same author as The Thursday Murder Club books!! This was such a fun read. Quick-paced and witty, with hardly ever a dull moment.

Steve Wheeler and his daughter Amy find themselves in the middle of a murder mystery that spans across the globe. While Amy is busy working for a private security (currently on assignment protecting a famous author on a remote island), things start to get dicey so she calls her dad for backup. But will they be able to solve the murders, protect the author, and stay alive in the process? Dun, dun, dunnnn

Please do yourself a favor and snatch this one up asap!

It's always hard to meet or exceed a high bar and as well as Richard Osman writes his new book, We Solve Murders, the first in what appears to be a new series, does not quite live up to the bar he set in his Thursday Murder Club books. We Solve Murders features Steve Wheeler, a retired detective, and his daughter-in-law Amy, a highly trained private security expert. The book gets off to a slow start, but by the time the story is really underway, the action moves like a whirlwind. There are red herrings, an interesting plot, and lots of jetting off to exotic and not-so-exotic places. But among all this, Osman raises serious questions about what "living," getting way out of one's comfort zone, really means. He also examines, but not terribly deeply, the relationship between Steve and his son Adam. Osman leaves just enough tantalizing threads that readers will want to come back for more.

More like 3.5 stars - Despite the convoluted plot and muddy mystery, the characters are delightful and the dialogue is crisp and witty. I'm a sucker for Osman's prose.

While I enjoyed this book well enough, I never hit the point where I couldn’t put it down. I also never really cared about who was behind the murders and why they were framing Amy for the whole thing.

The thing about this book that I did enjoy was the characters themselves, specifically Steve and his pals from his small town who come in to help, as well as the famous author, Rosie D’Antonio, who happens to be Amy’s client at the time their adventure begins.

When I read the dialogue and some of the very fun conversations between the characters, I could see it all in my head like a movie and I absolutely did love those moments about this book. There’s a great conversation between two characters who are trying to hide things from one another, but the reader knows what’s happening and it’s super fun.

I think this is a series that could get better as more books come out so I will definitely be giving the next one a shot!

Brilliant! Richard Osman can write books, that’s for sure. I love his original series, The Thursday Murders Club, the writing, the characters we have all come to know and love. We Solve Murders has a similar feel, with all the same humor and chaos thrown in. The main characters Amy, the bodyguard, her FIL Steve, an ex police office turned private detective and Rosie the famous Author she is assigned to protect are all fantastic. Rosie stands out as the funny one, while Steve and Amy are subtly so. The minor cast are also all fantastic, even the criminals are a hoot. I don’t want to give anything away, because it’s all just a pleasure to read. Richard Osman, you are brilliant! I will read anything you write. Your number one fan!

We Solve Murders is the first book in the new series by Richard Osman. I’m a big fan of his Thursday Murder Club series so I was hoping this one would be just as good. Luckily I was not disappointed. Amy Wheeler works as a bodyguard. Her father-in law is retired. He keeps an eye on the village happenings while quietly mourning his wife. Before he knows it he winds up globetrotting and working with Amy to save lives. This unlikely crime solving duo and their gang of friends quickly wormed their way int my heart. I found myself laughing along at their antics. Someday maybe there will be a mashup of all of the characters from these two separate series. How fun would that be? Read and enjoy!

I know Richard Osman from his Thursday Murder Club series. This is the first in a new series from the author. Steve Wheeler is a widower, retired cop and sometimes private investigator. He is enjoying his quiet life. His daughter in law, Amy Wheeler works in private security and loves the rush of exciting situations. Their work experiences give the pair something to bond over and a genuine closeness he doesn’t always feel with his son. Amy is currently protecting an older popular thriller writer named Rosie.

The mystery involves the death of an influencer near Amy’s location. When Amy is attacked she and Rosie need help from someone she can trust and calls on Steve. I confess I didn’t love it as much as the Murder Club series. It is still enjoyable but I’m only warming up to Steve and Amy. I will definitely look for the next in the series and then decide if it is something I would want to continue forward with. There is a formula to mysteries and the author is good at writing them. But it is the recurring characters that bring me back for a series. (3.5 Stars)

When a high power bodyguard is being chased all over the world by a high power assassin, the stakes are high and the reader's adrenaline climbs right along with the characters'. Amy has been assigned the job on a tropical island of protecting a hugely popular author whose life has been threatened by a Russian Oligarch. Amy's husband is working in the far east, but she checks in daily with her father-in-law Steve, a retired cop of whom she's very fond. Her life gets complicated when her boss disappears and she receives threats on her own life. Rosie, the octogenarian author, comes to her aid, and they join forces, along with Steve, to uncover the plots that put them in extreme danger. There are plenty of red herrings to keep us and the characters guessing, and the good humor makes the rapid pace all the more fun. Luckily this appears to be the first of a new series by Osman.

Thank you to NetGalley for the advance ecopy of this book. There are many characters who are under threat of being killed for some reason, and many characters trying to prevent the killings and solve a mystery or two. The action is fast paced, and I did prefer these characters to the ones in Thursday Night Murder Club. All in all, this was an averagely adequate mystery.

As a huge fan of the Thursday Murder Club series, I was so excited about We Solve Murders by Richard Osman. This book kicks off a new series, but you get the feeling that our new heroes, Amy, Steve, and Rosie, might just bump into Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim, and Ron at any moment. Readers can expect similarly cozy touches (Trouble the cat, anyone?) and lovable, funny characters -- how unique and special for my favorite part of a murder mystery to be the characters, rather than the mystery of it all. But the plot is fun too, as we've come to expect from Osman. I was surprised by the twists, and I was left with enough questions that I can't wait for the next installment!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the opportunity to read an advanced copy.

I am in the minority here but while I love, love, love The Thursday Murder Club series, I had a tough time getting into this book. I'm not sure why because there is his trademark humor, quirky characters and a mystery, It just didn't grab me like I thought it would. I may give it another try in the future.

A new series! Steve Wheeler, Amy, and Rosie are the three main characters in this book. A retired cop, his daughter in law who is also a bodyguard to the rich and famous, and a popular author! When Amy is set up as a patsy in a murder investigation, Steve knows he must get back into it to save her. I really enjoyed the pace of this book and of course the humor. The characters, as expected from Osman, are really well developed. A great read anyone will enjoy but his fans will devour this one!

At first, I thought I wouldn't like this book as much as the Thursday Murder Club series (especially the opening) but once it got going, there was plenty of action and quirky characters that I grew to like. I especially like Steven, the father-in-law. The elements are all very similar to The Thursday Murder Club but this story is more of an action story than a quieter murder mystery. I'd still say it's a mystery because we are trying to figure out the identity of the mole and Loubet. Overall, while I still prefer The Thursday Murder Club, I would make room on my bookshelf for this series too.

The fact that this book felt a little formulaic; a little too much like the Thursday Murder Club series by this same author it did not lessen my enjoyment of this new franchise. The main characters are very well developed, and very likable and the plot is tight and well written. Amy works for a company that provides security protection to wealthy clients, and when the book opens she is sitting pool side in the Carolinas with a famous author who is being threatened by an assassin. Meanwhile she is also making sure that her recently widowed Father-in-Law is staying active in his tiny English village. A series of murders set off a wild chase across the globe and lead to attempts on Amy's life. With her Father-in-Law (a retired police detective), the famous author and her Boss in tow the three try to stay one step ahead of the killer while trying to solve the murders. A twisty page turner, this is a fun read.