Is there an audiobook of We Solve Murders?

Yes. We Solve Murders has an Audible audiobook edition, narrated by Nicola Walker.

How long is the We Solve Murders audiobook?

The We Solve Murders audiobook runs 10 hr 32 min.

Is We Solve Murders on Kindle Unlimited?

No. We Solve Murders was not included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on August 26, 2026.

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Our score

4.5/ 5

Outstanding

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EDITION PUBLISHEDSeptember 2024

Genres

Fiction Mystery Cozy Mystery

Themes

Family rebuilt after lossInfluencer money and where it goesRetirement and the pull of one more caseTrust between people with little else left

We Solve Murders

Name: We Solve Murders
Price: 12.99 USD
Availability: InStock
Author: Richard Osman

Richard Osman

Richard Osman leaves the Thursday Murder Club behind and hands the family business to Steve Wheeler, semi-retired and happy about it, and to Amy, his daughter-in-law, who guards rich clients for a living and has just been framed for killing several of them. We Solve Murders is a globe-hopping cozy mystery that runs on charm and never loses its nerve.

The Review

Our take

Short chapters, most of them three or four pages, handed between characters like a baton. Steve Wheeler is in an English village doing the pub quiz and keeping to a routine he has no intention of breaking. Amy Wheeler is on a private island guarding a bestselling novelist who is having a wonderful time. Then a body turns up, and a bag of money, and two pleasant lives running in parallel stop being parallel. Osman builds momentum before the plot has explained what it wants, which is a neat trick to pull on readers who think they know this author's gears.

The killings come with a pattern. Influencers dead in three countries, each one near a bag of cash, each one a client Amy was paid to keep breathing. That arrangement does something interesting to a reader's suspicion. There is no drawing room and no fixed cast to squint at, so attention drifts to the paperwork instead. Who arranged the transfers. Who knew the itinerary. Who profits from a bodyguard unable to account for her own movements. Reading alibis gives way to reading logistics, and the tension holds because Osman keeps the money legible even while the geography scatters.

Rosie D'Antonio steals the book and Osman knows she does. She is a wildly successful novelist in her eighties with the manners of a woman who has never once been told no, and she treats a murder investigation as research and a social occasion at the same time. The comedy runs on people being decent to each other in ridiculous circumstances, which has always been this author's real subject. The thriller machinery underneath is thinner. Cash crosses borders on the strength of a joke, and the international plotting works better as an excuse for airports than as plausible financial crime. Anyone arriving from Coopers Chase should also expect a change in temperature. This one moves, and it has no village to come home to.

Why you should read

Great if you loved the warmth of The Thursday Murder Club
Great for readers who want comic crime with real stakes
Great if you like odd-couple detective pairings
Great for cozy mystery fans ready to leave the village

What to expect

Very short chapters rotating between viewpoints
Comedy first, procedure second
A globe-hopping plot built around airports
A slower opening stretch while the cast assembles

Osman does not cheat the ending. What matters sits in the open early, dressed as character detail rather than evidence, and the last movement settles the Steve and Amy question as squarely as it settles the murders. A widower who has stopped expecting much. A daughter-in-law with almost no family left. A working partnership neither of them will call what it is. Osman writes that beat without sentiment and without looking away from it, and the murders turn out to have been the pretext all along.

Reviewed by Quinn · How our reviews are written

Our verdict

4.5/ 5

Outstanding

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Where to read or listen

Is there an audiobook of We Solve Murders?: Yes. We Solve Murders has an Audible audiobook edition, narrated by Nicola Walker.
Listen to We Solve Murders free with an Audible trial
We earn from qualifying Amazon purchases.
How long is the We Solve Murders audiobook?: The We Solve Murders audiobook runs 10 hr 32 min.
Is We Solve Murders on Kindle Unlimited?: No. We Solve Murders was not included with Kindle Unlimited when we last checked on August 26, 2026.
How much does We Solve Murders cost?: On Amazon: Kindle $12.99, Paperback $12.12, Hardcover $16.23. Prices as of September 2, 2026 at 12:20 AM EDT and may change.

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Common questions

What is We Solve Murders about?: Short chapters, most of them three or four pages, handed between characters like a baton. Steve Wheeler is in an English village doing the pub quiz and keeping to a routine he has no intention of breaking. Amy Wheeler is on a private island guarding a bestselling novelist who is having a wonderful…
Is We Solve Murders worth reading?: We scored We Solve Murders 4.5 out of 5. Richard Osman leaves the Thursday Murder Club behind and hands the family business to Steve Wheeler, semi-retired and happy about it, and to Amy, his daughter-in-law, who guards rich clients for a living and has just been framed for killing several of them. We Solve Murders is…