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    On the run with Rosie

    Sep 23, 2024 2 minutes

    WE SOLVE MURDERS

    by Richard Osman

    (Viking, $38)

    If you’re a fan of Richard Osman’s books you look forward to a new novel from him with gleeful anticipation. The books, set in a plush retirement village, are as English as Enid Blyton but with jokes and without the casual racism. Or Beatrix Potter but without rabbits and washerwomen in bonnets and with the

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