He feels that writing a mystery novel gives him the perfect excuse to think up a perfect murder, in case you should ever need one. Opening the new Osman is like sitting down to dinner with treasured friends you know are going to kill you - deliciously! The idea came to him when he had a perfectly pleasant yet uneventful lunch to his mom’s friend in a retirement community. Richard started chatting and found there to be some wit, talent, a sense of mischief, and wisdom of that generation.

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A decade-old cold case—their favorite kind–leads them to a local news legend and a murder with no body and no answers.

This is a fun, thoughtful, offbeat, and engaging mystery novel and a nice change of pace from darker, grislier crime novels. While he was still in school, he got his very first broadcasting experience, working as a regular contributor to Turn it Up, an open-access music show that went on every Sunday evening on BBC Radio Sussex.

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The writing is pithy and fresh, so much so that I kept writing down lines from The Last Devil To Die. Skulduggery and laughs abound as our favorite gaggle of amateur-detective retirees tackle drug runners, dodgy antique dealers, art forgers and Battenberg cake recipes.

Authors he likes include Agatha Christie, Patricia Highsmith, Jeffrey Deaver, Shari Lapena, and Harlan Coben. To read more about the site or if you want a graphic to link to us, see the about page for more details. When Richard was only nine years old, his dad walked out on the family, which created difficulty for the rest of his life.