The Other Half: A Novel

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Random House, Aug 6, 2024 - Fiction - 368 pages
You 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

Section 9
176
Section 10
179
Section 11
204
Section 12
249
Section 21
336
Section 22
355
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About the author (2024)

CHARLOTTE VASSELL is a British writer living near London. She studied history at the University of Liverpool and Art History at SOAS, University of London, before training as an actor. She has also worked in advertising, executive search, and as a purveyor of silk top hats.

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