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A Beginner’s Guide to Breaking and Entering

By: Andrew Hunter Murray
Narrated by: Phil Dunster
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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

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I was fully engaged by this story. I was never irritated by gratuitous or exaggerated violence. There are knives, some guns and the delicious English trope of a blunt object or two but none of the modern desperate violence. The characters are so well written. I listened and was so surprised when it ended I felt a bit blue for a bit. Great story.

Such a wonderful caper

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Phil Dunster’s (sp?) reading was PERFECT! His timing was so spot on! Love this author’s sense of humor and great dialogue. Will definitely look for other books he writes. I have never laughed so hard and so frequently! HIGHLY recommend!

Funniest Book Ever!!!!

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great listen, god me through a all nighter driving on holiday. good characters good storyline warmly recommend

wonderfully quirky

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I'm a Fish fan so bought the book to support AHM. His wit and intelligence shines through, just as it does on the podcast. I also absolutely loved the narration.

Fun read - ahem - listen

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Everything. Such a great story and read so well by Phil Dunster. Can’t wait to read Andrew Hunter Murray’s other books!

Loved the characters. I miss them now that the story is done. Sequel, AHM?

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Phil Dunster’s read of the story with many character voices made this wonderful, quirky book even better. This book was quite funny , which was surprising & had so many twists & turns. Phil Dunster needs to read more books for Audible. Is there anything he can’t do well? A fun listen !!!

Entertaining & surprising plot twists

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Andrew Hunter Murray is a wonderful storyteller and I look forward to reading more from him. The characters are interesting and the plot is enthralling! I didn’t want to turn it off, I was so intrigued to see what happened next!

Great story and narration!

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Thoroughly entertaining. Lovely characters. Enjoyable twisty plot. Exactly what I hoped it would be and then some.
And then, what an exquisite performance by Phill Dunster!

Binge worthy

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Al is an "interloper". He's coined this name for his practice making unauthorized stays in unoccupied mansions. Al might be right to give this kind of "squatting" a new name. He doesn't stay long and he doesn't leave a trace. He ALSO doesn't have a trace of a social life. He's blowing in the wind—one lonely, carefully reconnoitered mansion after another. However, If he really wanted to live an uneventful life, he probably shouldn't have picked such a risky way of finding a pillow to lay his head on.

Al is about to find out just how far the rich have gone to get that big mansion-and keep it. And it's all because he left a coaster out on the coffee table. Somebody else's coaster, on somebody else's coffee table, in somebody else's house.

The rich don't tolerate interlopers. They're playing for keeps. For Al to survive the rich, he's going to need some friends, and interlopers don't have friends.

Interloping is not a crime!

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Okay…a weird lifestyle. People finding friends. A bit of cozy mystery antics. Social commentary. Humor. How the hell can a person put all this into words that do it justice.
This one was a romp, a delight, and made me cackle out loud several times, and smile even more times. Beautiful, beautiful, funny, clever writing

I actually can’t easily summarize why this is one of my new favorite books

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