The Other Half: A NovelYou know how they live. This is how they die. Clemmie is dead. Who killed her? Was it the blithe, sociopathic boyfriend? His impossibly wealthy godmother? The gallery owner with whom Clemmie was having an affair? Or was it the result of something else entirely? Rupert's 30th birthday party is a black-tie dinner at the Kentish Town McDonald's—catered with cocaine and expensive champagne. The morning after, his girlfriend Clemmie is found murdered on Hampstead Heath, a single stiletto heel jutting from under a bush. All the party-goers have alibis. Naturally. This investigation is going to be about aristocrats and Classics degrees, Instagram influencers and whose father knows who. Or is it 'whom'? Detective Caius Beauchamp isn't sure. He's sharply dressed, smart, and thoroughly modern—he discovers Clemmie's body on his early morning jog. As he searches for the dark truth beneath the luxurious life of these London socialites, a wall of staggering wealth and privilege threatens to shut down his investigation before it's even begun. Can Caius peer through the tangled mess of connections in which the other half live—and die—before the case is wrenched from his hands? Bitingly funny, full of shocking twists, and all too familiar, The Other Half is a stunning debut from your next favorite crime writer. |
Contents
Section 1 | 23 |
Section 2 | 58 |
Section 3 | 72 |
Section 4 | 77 |
Section 5 | 134 |
Section 6 | 144 |
Section 7 | 148 |
Section 8 | 166 |
Section 13 | 270 |
Section 14 | 274 |
Section 15 | 277 |
Section 16 | 286 |
Section 17 | 294 |
Section 18 | 295 |
Section 19 | 323 |
Section 20 | 330 |
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