By Richard Osman

Amy Wheeler works private security, currently protecting best selling Rosie D’Antonio (think Robin Masters in the original Magnum PI – a jet setting, world famous, incredibly connected, insanely rich author). This should be an easy job, but problems are starting to mount up…. Steve Wheeler is a retired police detective, Amy’s father-in-law, has his own PI agency – working on mostly small, quiet cases. And he hates to travel. But than a dead body, a bag of money, and paid killers work to make Steve’s life less quiet. And Amy’s love of adrenaline is going to get a strong work out.

Daughter-in-Law/Father-in-Law dynamic is interesting in this one. It reminds me of two different 80’s TV staples – half odd couple style private eyes (Simon & Simon, Hardcastle & McCormick, etc.) and half Magnum PI (or Murder She Wrote). And dry British humor. The book was fun, if those sound influences sound interesting.

It did suffer a bit from first planned book problems – too many introductions and cute moments that I am sure will come back in subsequent books. The characters all tend to sound the same. And like his other series – Thursday Murder Club – the characters are all so good at what they do, them finding the baddies is never really in doubt…much like an 80’s TV PI show.

387 Pages

3.5/5