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We Solve Murders

by Richard Osman


Genre
Mystery, Crime, Thriller
Year
2024
Pages
401
Contents

Chapter 14

Overview

This chapter reveals that Rob Kenna, who appears to be a wealthy Dubai DJ, actually makes serious money by brokering contract killings. It also tightens François Loubet's role in the plot: Loubet not only helped build Rob Kenna's business but now wants Amy Wheeler murdered, sharply escalating the threat against her. Rob Kenna quickly treats the hit as a business transaction and prepares to hire a professional already nearby.

Summary

The chapter shifts to Dubai and introduces Rob Kenna, who publicly presents himself as a glamorous DJ with a villa, a gold Ferrari, and a lucrative lifestyle. The narration reveals that DJing does not fully explain Rob Kenna's wealth, because Rob Kenna has built a far more profitable business as a middleman who arranges murders for paying clients.

Rob Kenna's criminal work is described as simple and highly lucrative: clients tell Rob Kenna who they want dead, and Rob Kenna finds the right killer. Rob Kenna does not need motives, only money. Rob Kenna has been in this line of work for only a couple of years, and François Loubet was central to Rob Kenna's rise, because Loubet hired Rob Kenna repeatedly and gave him the credibility that brought in more contracts.

While playing golf in Dubai with Big Mickey Moody, Rob Kenna thinks through a new assignment from François Loubet: Amy Wheeler must be killed. Because Amy Wheeler is a trained professional, Rob Kenna immediately dismisses the idea of using an unskilled local attacker. Instead, Rob Kenna decides that the best option is a capable man who is already in the area and whom Rob Kenna believes can be persuaded for the right price.

Rob Kenna calculates the job in business terms, expecting a commission of about two hundred thousand dollars and planning to pay the shooter fifty thousand. The chapter ends by underlining Rob Kenna's arrogance and volatility: after daydreaming about his comfortable life, Rob Kenna badly hooks a golf shot into the bushes and explodes in anger, throwing his club and shouting while Big Mickey Moody dryly comments on Rob Kenna's bad luck.

Who Appears

  • Rob Kenna
    Dubai-based DJ facade hiding a lucrative business arranging contract killings; accepts Amy Wheeler as Loubet's latest target.
  • François Loubet
    Powerful client who helped establish Rob Kenna's murder-brokering business and now orders Amy Wheeler's death.
  • Amy Wheeler
    Professional operative marked for assassination after François Loubet gives Rob Kenna a contract on her.
  • Big Mickey Moody
    Rob Kenna's golf companion in Dubai, present during Rob Kenna's planning and final outburst.
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