This was a really really enjoyable murder mystery in my humble opinion. I read the audiobook, narrated by Nineka Okaye, who did amazing accents and a wonderful job.
Marchfield Square is a group of two story flats squared around a little park/garden. Although such a locked gate living area in its neighborhood could be quite posh, Celeste, the widowed landlady, is more concerned about who she rents to (usually) than their income so there is an array of tenants, including a couple Celeste regrets renting to. Everyone knows there’s something very wrong with the guy in a nearby apartment, that he seems to have criminal visitors and he beats his wife. When he is shot, the wife seems like the likely culprit. But is she? Celeste does not think so. She enlists Lewis, a standoffish not very nice but more just oafish police procedural writer writer who has to work at a job he hates because two of his three novels were not best sellers,. She also enlists Audrey, a woman who cleans for a living and is astonishingly good at that. Her roommate is a criminal lawyer. Audrey is pleasant, observant and seems to be a good partner for Lewis, Celeste thinks. It is only because Audrey is strong as well as pleasant that this works at all.
There are a variety of possible murderers and lots gets in the way to muck up Audrey and Lewis’s work. Meanwhile, they cannot ignore their fellow tenants as they dig deep into London organized crime to find the victim’s cronies. This introduces us to a fun and varied cast of characters. This mystery ticked off all boxes for me and the audio version was fabulous. Plot, Characters and writing all delightfully assembled into a really good book.
This is a review of the audiobook.
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