A Beginners Guide to Breaking and En..., Andrew Hunter Murray
A Beginners Guide to Breaking and En..., Andrew Hunter Murray
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A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering

Author: Andrew Hunter Murray

Narrator: Phil Dunster

Unabridged: 11 hr 8 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 04/25/2024

Synopsis

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Property might be theft. But the housing market is murder.

My name is Al. I live in wealthy people's second homes while their real owners are away.

I don’t rob them, I don’t damage anything… I’m more an unofficial house-sitter than an actual criminal.

Life is good.

Or it was - until last night, when my friends and I broke into the wrong place, on the wrong day, and someone wound up dead.

And now … now we’re in a great deal of trouble.

Featuring crooked houses, dodgy coppers and a lot of lockpicking, A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering is a gripping thriller about what it's like to be young, skilled, unemployed - and on the run.
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Love for A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering. . .

'Fantastic' Zoe Ball
'Madly fun and exciting' Lisa Jewell
‘A joyous read from start to finish. I loved it!’ Clare Mackintosh
'Witty, dazzling and incredibly addictive' Jenny Colgan
‘A bloody brilliant, fantastic book’ Philippa Perry
'It’s laugh-out-loud funny, proceeding at a pace that makes it almost impossible to put down.' Sunday Times
'A comic delight' Financial Times
'Smart, satirical, knowledgable, accurate, punchy, laugh out loud funny, surprising, shocking, thought provoking ... Loved it.' Matt Chorley, The Times
'A propulsive plot, an ingenious narrator and lashings of intrigue make this a genuine and thoroughly enjoyable page-turner.' Guardian
'A thoroughly entertaining mix of whodunnit, social satire and a cunningly smuggled-in love story.’ Mail on Sunday
'Tremendous fun: a quirky, gripping and insightful novel that kept me reading late into the night.' Elizabeth Macneal
‘A giddy, addictive thrill ride of a book - who knew accidental espionage was so much fun?!' Daisy Buchanan
'Legit brilliant, FUN and FUNNY and I couldn’t recommend it more' Stevie Martin
‘Dark, funny, and deeply twisted' Val McDermid

©2024 Andrew Hunter Murray (P)2024 Penguin Audio

About Andrew Hunter Murray

Andrew Hunter Murray is a writer and comedian. He is one of the writers and researchers behind the BBC show QI and also cohosts the spinoff podcast, No Such Thing as a Fish, which, since 2014, has released 250 episodes, been downloaded 200 million times, and toured the world. It has also spawned two bestselling books, The Book of the Year and The Book of the Year 2018, as well as a BBC Two series No Such Thing as the News. Andrew also writes for Private Eye magazine and hosts the Eye's in-house podcast, Page 94, interviewing the country's best investigative journalists about their work. In his spare time he performs in the Jane Austen–themed improv comedy group Austentatious, which plays in London's West End and around the UK. The Last Day is his debut novel.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kate on April 11, 2024

2.5 I'm sorry, but this really wasn't for me. I thought it would be a fun sort of read (going by the cover and blurb) but what I got was an overly complicated, overlong story and I'm still not sure what was going on - and no, I didn't skip any of it. I think the story was about a guy who called himsel......more

Goodreads review by Fran on March 23, 2024

This is a sharp, funny and hugely enjoyable read. Al is an interloper - he breaks into high end houses to stay when the owners are away. All is going well until he meets up with a group doing the same thing and they find themselves caught up in a murder. In an effort to evade capture, they try and s......more

Goodreads review by Shannon on January 27, 2025

Funny and well paced, a good holiday read. I did find some plot points a bit confusing (financial crimes ?? Am I right) and due to the very obvious social commentary in the book, I felt that the millennial vs wealthy boomer stereotypes became a bit over done. Otherwise, an interesting mystery that k......more

Goodreads review by Sophie on August 31, 2024

Very very average. I was intrigued by the blurb and prologue, but was ultimately a struggle to finish. Predictable ending.......more

Goodreads review by Büşra on December 25, 2024

Konu: Zengin muhitlerdeki evlere gizlice girip ev sahibi dönene kadar hiçbir şey çalmadan yalnızca o evde bir süre yaşayarak hayatını geçiren Al’ın girdiği mekanlardan biri bir gün cinayete ev sahipliği yapar. O evde hem kendisi gibi hareket eden bir grup insanla tanışır hem de cinayet şüphelisi ola......more

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Hilarious Daily Mail

Smart, satirical, knowledgable, accurate, punchy, laugh out loud funny, surprising, shocking, thought provoking. Lovely short chapters. Loved it Matt Chorley, The Times

Hugely entertaining…the novel is politically astute, gradually revealing a scam involving property and international money laundering. It’s laugh-out-loud funny, proceeding at a pace that makes it almost impossible to put down. Sunday Times

A propulsive plot, an ingenious narrator and lashings of intrigue make this a genuine and thoroughly enjoyable page-turner Guardian

The plot is corset-tight and lavish with its surprises. An amusing crime caper…a delight Strong Words Magazine

What drives Hunter Murray’s chunky crime thriller along is Al’s idiosyncratic, comic narrative voice. As a result, it’s fun to spend time with him, even when it’s clear he’s not necessarily a great human being Herald Scotland

Filled with humour, shocks, love and hate – and a few handy tips on how to beat the housing crisis… Funny, thoughtful and all-round entertaining Press Association

In the delicious A Beginner’s Guide to Breaking and Entering, a hapless housebreaker and his fellow miscreants must solve a murder before the police arrest them; it’s a comic delight. Financial Times

I was hooked ... as it's filled with hilarious moments Express

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