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. 'A comic delight' Financial Times 'A thoroughly entertaining mix of whodunnit, social satire and a cunningly smuggled-in love story ' Mail on Sunday ' Laugh out loud funny, surprising, shocking , thought provoking ... Loved it.' Matt Chorley, The Times __________ 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. __________ Praise for A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering . . . 'A propulsive plot , an ingenious narrator and lashings of intrigue make this a genuine and thoroughly enjoyable page-turner.' Guardian ' It’s laugh-out-loud funny , proceeding at a pace that makes it almost impossib…