We Solve Murders - could someone explain the ending? SPOILER

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I've just finished this. I enjoy the way RO writes (loved Thursday murder club series) but found this a bit hard going.

Too many characters introduced who all seemed similar to each other and I just didn't get the ending. What was the motivation for Micky Moody to kill Amy? I've reread the ending but just doesn't make sense to me.

Anyone read this who can explain please.
Thanks

So glad you have started this thread!

I too found this book hard going compared to the more easy reading Thursday Murder Club series of books.

Tbh, I'm surprised I actually finished it as was close to taking it back to the library mid-way through several times!

Sorry, can't shed any further light on your question though, as found it just as confusing as you 😉

I can’t even remember the ending - it was a very poor book compared to Thursday Murder Club IMHO.

I thought the first TMC was far too long and convoluted, and he was just pressing various buttons at various points eg need heart here, now some humour, now some death. It felt like a cynical exercise in mass appeal rather than something he was actually enjoying creating. That said, I got to the end.

We Solve Murders was absolute bilge. I got a third in. I really tried. It went to charity. It didn’t make sense, it was lazy, it was patronising to the reader, and fuck me it was boring.

Motivation was that she was the one who'd been set up (her blood was left deliberately at the scene of the influencers' deaths) and as she would plead her innocence, easier to kill her to tie up loose ends a. (although logically that would make little sense to an investigator - if the assassin is then hit, why? If made to look like a suicide, why?). Plan B - which he went with - was to dob her in/point out the blood samples to the police (who had everyone looking to arrest her). b

a. See page 234 of the penguin publication in paperback
b. See page 311

Sorry, cannot edit.
I had done a and b in asterisks, forgetting this will bold.
No emphasis in bold. Just annoying.

I have, fwiw enjoyed books 2-4 of murder club but hated the first one.
This one - easy read - but struggling with the idea of hitmen having watched Hit Man on Netflix and discovering it's a lot harder to order hits than fiction would have us believe!

I also struggled a bit with We solve murders.
I did lol once (the Coldplay line, cheap shot but it did amuse).
Not sure why we were supposed to revere the cat (yes, am aware it is RO and IO's fur baby irl but so what? and I say that as a cat person).
Widower and kick-ass DIL. Hmm. She seemed to be doing an awful lot of heavy lifting for her husband. Also, her alluded to backstory as an abused child was a bit dark compared with the tweeness of the rest.
I liked the airport guy Carlos. Mr Bubbles kind of vibe. Rosie was a vibrant albeit unrealistic character (I am in my fifties and feeling it). Trying to work out if she's meant to be a formidable Joan Collins.
Colour me cynical but the whole thing reeked of being written for Netflix - a future series in the making. Even down to casting, RO (same in Murder club) makes sure he has diverse characters. Absolutely nothing wrong with that except it often feels deliberate for future adaptations so the whole enterprise feels contrived. Readership is manipulated.
I do not begrudge RO his success. Fair play to him. But if I get one more email signed your pal, it'll be too soon. He is right that bitterness is not a good look and will end up killing you...but it's really tricky to come across as sincere when you address your readership with fake intimacy.

Mickey Moody wanted to kill Amy Wheeler or have her go to prison to take the blame for the murders of the influencers.

Just coming on to say that I can't get into this book at all, and glad I'm not the only one. I loved all of the Thursday Murder Club books but this doesn't grab me at all - I keep trying but after a page or so I give up.

I'm glad I'm not on my own here. Not a patch on TMC.
The device of having separate action happening all over the shop in different countries was just exhausting and reeked of poor plotting.