Why read A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering?

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

'Fantastic' Zoe Ball
'Madly fun and exciting' Lisa Jewell
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Patrick Forsyth

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Best known as a humorist (and linked to the television programme Qi in the U.K.) the author published a very good science fiction book in 2020, The Last Day in which the world stops spinning. So, this was a surprise. It is best described as a caper. A young man seeks out an existence breaking into and living in houses he knows are empty, at least for a while. All goes well until… he crosses paths with others doing the same thing, a dead body is soon involved and the mounting complications make this a page-turner. Yet it also has…

From Patrick's 3 favorite reads in 2024.