I received an ARC of this novel from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.

Excellent storyline about a Russian agent turned Philadelphia school teacher; the witness protection program and a couple of strange interconnected deaths add to the mysterious life of the Russian teacher.

I love the ending.

Greg Abimbola is a really interesting character. On the surface a mild mannered British, Russian language teacher. His alter ego is an ex Russian spy in hiding from his old life. When part of his past catches up with him, he ends up trying to please his ex masters, help a friend, assist a Police officer and also stay alive.

I wish I’d read the first book in the series before this one, but it is still a stand alone read. Greg is an interesting character, still proud of his heritage, unusual as it is, just wanting to get on with his life, while things and people conspire against him. He feels drawn to help, but knows he’s not being told the truth by some of the people who come asking for his help. An intriguing read, very well written with some lovely twists.Highly recommended.

Thanks to NetGalley, the author and the publishers for the opportunity to read and review this book.

Adam Oyebanji ‘… recently took the big step of moving east to Edinburgh by way of Birmingham, London, Lago Chicago, Pittsburgh and New York: a necessary detour the traffic otherwise is really, really bad’. Almost – not quite – but almost, I didn’t care whether the book was any good, beguiled by this About the author'.note. ‘Loved it.
The book is good. A great protagonist – a Black, British, half-Russian, who sounds English, teaches Russian and French in America, and has secrets he prefers should remain secret. But s Rendell Locke, Ruskin Bond and Trish Feehan wrote, ‘The past is always with us.’ Caught up again with the GRU, Greg Ambimbola is also inveigled into help with the suicide of a school trustee. With an abundance of understated humour and the well-trained ability to observe, interpret and act, as well as keep a low profile, Greg assists the police, protects someone dear to him, and fends off the past in style.
I’d like to have read the previous volume first but Two Times Murder stands alone.
Thank you, Cannongate Books and Netgalley, for an e-copy in return for an honest review

Two times murder is book 2 of 2. I hadn't read book 1 but that absolutely wasn't a problem. Really clever storyline and characters. Loved it.

The first thing I must point out, and in my opinion it's important, is that this novel is the direct sequel to A Quiet Teacher and I think it’s important that you read the books in order. That way you will avoid spoilers which would seriously damage your enjoyment. Now moving swiftly on. I read, and thoroughly enjoyed A Quiet Teacher by Adam Oyebanji, it's beautifully written and really gets you involved with the characters. I came across the book when searching for something new to read on Amazon and treated myself to a copy. I finished the book and was hopeful that Mr Oyebanji might write more involving the protagonist. As you may or may not know, I review books on Amazon, Good Reads and various other places. I don’t get paid to review but am asked to give an honest review in exchange for the opportunity to read a pre-publication copy of a book. Some weeks after I had finished A Quiet Teacher I was looking on NetGalley to see what was due for publication fairly soon when what should catch my eye but Two Times Murder by Adam Oyebanji and sure enough it was my hoped for sequel!

Two Times Murder continues the story of Greg Abimbola the Teacher of Russian at the prestigious Calderhill Academy. Greg is still teaching at the school and various other characters also appear in the sequel but not to any great extent. This is a sequel but not a re-run of the same story. I will not expound further on the plot or I will run the risk of spoilers and I can’t bear those. Suffice to say that Greg remains true to his character an intelligent man with a history, who likes nice things. I find him fascinating and would like another book but feel in my heart of hearts that that is unlikely. I will however look out for Adam Oyebanji as he really knows how to write, how to engage his readers and keep them engaged.
I loved both of these books they’re different from the normal run of murder mysteries available and that gives them an edge as far as I’m concerned. I honestly can’t recommend them highly enough and hope that you will enjoy them too.
Very highly recommended.

Greg Abimbola is a teacher in Pittsburgh , he’s also good at keeping secrets .
Greg is asked to help the police after an unidentified body is found in the river , Greg has previously helped solve a murder and seems the ideal person to help Sergeant Rachel Lev .
Rachel is pinning her hopes on Greg as her colleagues can’t wait for her to fail .
This is a cleverly written book and Greg the main character makes for a different protagonist.
I did find it a slow burner but it did gain pace .
A different and complex read .
Thanks to NetGalley and Severn House .

Greg Abimbola is many things -- a teacher of Russian at a private school in Pittsburgh; an amateur detective helping the local police; a black man, albeit not a black American, and a former member of Russian military intelligence.

Abimbola in protective custody of the US, has survived an attempt by the GRU to eliminate him. Now, the architect of that effort appears to be dead, but in circumstances that place him far too close. With the help of some of the friends he has made in Pittsburgh, a group as diverse as his own background, Abimbola is pressured into investigating the unexpected death.

Another diverting "Quiet Teacher" story from Adam Oyebanji.

I found this a little slow going. I hadn’t realised that this was the second book in the series and with hindsight, I wish I’d read the first one first - I think I missed lots of back story, so that’s my mistake. It’s definitely worth a read if you enjoy this genre and I’m sure there’ll be more to come.

Very soon after starting to read this book I realised that I would have been better to have read the first in series as a number of things seemed to refer to events in that previous book. It was however possible to gain an understanding of what may have happened previously and I was able to enjoy this as a standalone novel.
The leading character Greg Aminbola a British/Russian of color is to all intentn and purpose a language teacher at Calderhill College in Pittsburgh but behind that quiet person is a very big backstory. Unknown to his colleagues.
Greg becomes involved in the investigations into two deaths while still attempting to stay out of the limelight.. The story becomes quite complex but still manages to move along at a good rate and kept me wanting to keep turning the pages.
The author also manages to add comments on racial bias in the USA and the feeling of white entitlement by an element of the population. All this along side Gregs repressed homosexuality and feelings that he has committed a sin.
There is a lot to applaud in this well written book and its a series which can only continue to improve.

Greg a black Russian teacher ,who likes to dress in a smart manner is hiding a secret. He has a previous history of solving a murder on school premises .He does not want to draw attention to himself but he is approached ,at his apartment, by a Detective Sergeant Rachel Ley to help her after an unknown body has been pulled from a local river. He seems to know something about the identity of the victim but keeps quiet for now. After an argument in a board meeting a school trustee falls to his death from his building . There is a link between the two victims as Greg and Rachel investigate the crimes but Greg is threatened and needs to watch his back if he does not want to become another victim.

I regret not reading the previous book in this series first but I did quickly pick up on the story.
Greg Abimbola tries his best to stay under the radar but there are some things that make it difficult, 1, he is Russian with British citizenship, 2, he has a posh British accent, 3, he wears an eye patch and 4, he is black.
Greg was a former general in the Russian CRU but had escaped and was now working at Calderhill, a private college in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, teaching Russian and sometimes French.
When a body is found floating in a river with two bullet holes it went against the grain for Sgt. Rachel Lev of the local PD to ask Greg for his help to find the killer, Greg had previously assisted her in solving a murder.
Greg suspected that the body was that of Morosov, a CRU agent who had been stalking Greg, most likely to annihilate him.
Greg was in demand, he was also approached by the ex wife of local banker, Alan Mester who had jumped from the balcony of his penthouse apartment, his wife didn't believe that he had committed suicide and pleaded with Greg to help prove it.
Greg was ably assisted in his investigations by assistant custodian at Calderhill, Andrea Valasquez, a girl who was studying for a job in IT. Andrea was a computer wiz and Greg had helped clear her name from a murder rap so she was more than happy to help him, in fact she quite enjoyed it.
This book moves at a fast pace, the characters are diverse, the story has many twists and turns in the complex plot, it touches on espionage, racial discrimination and covert homosexuality. A quite unique and enjoyable story.
Thank you Net Gallery for this ARC, my review is my own.

A fascinating, intriguing and well plotted novel by Adam Oyebanji, the second featuring Greg Abimbola and his secrets.
There's a mystery parts and an intriguing light spy story. I thoroughly enjoyed the novel and was glat to catch up with the characters.
Solid and well plotted, highly recommended
Many thanks to the publisher for this ARC, all opinions are mine

This is a very interesting and riveting crime, two times murder, espionage thriller set in Pittsburgh, USA. It’s well-constructed with mostly short, punchy chapters, dated and timed. Greg, the main protagonist, is a Russian language teacher at a private school. However, he has secrets of his own, which we come to realise. This is the second book in The Quiet Teacher series. I haven’t read the first book. This works well as a standalone. I thoroughly enjoyed this great read. It kept me entertained throughout. A compelling read.

A complex, compact, clever, and topical mystery featuring a most unusual protagonist- a biracial Russian intelligence officer who has defected to the West and is now teaching at a private school in Pittsburgh. It will help I think to have read the first book which lays out Greg's path but Oyebanji does give enough back story to make this work as a standalone. Greg's trying to live his life but the Russians just can't quit him. And having solved a murder at his school and exonerating Andrea the custodian, he's found himself to be the go to guy when a man goes over the balcony of his penthouse and his ex doesn't buy that it was a suicide. Andrea, btw is awesome. This has a depth you might not expect, some of which doesn't come out until the last pages. It touches on academia, bullying, international espionage (great tradecraft) and I'm not going to spoil the rest. It's also got a few softer moments notably because Greg and one of the students as well as with the new Head of School. Thanks to the publisher for the ARC. A great read.

Greg Abimbola is half British, half Russian living in America, but there's a lot more to this high school teacher of Russian and French than first appears. I'd highly recommend reading the first book in this series before this one - I didn't and the first section was rather confusing, referring back to incidents (like the loss of his eye) that meant nothing to me.

But once I was in the swing, it was an exciting read as he tries to appease the American police, the Russian mafia and a rich lady concerning the murders of several men. The clues follow racial prejudice in schools, a rich playboy and his mistresses and a Russian spy, and there are plenty of suspects. The story is told with self-depracating humour and Greg is an appealing hero, albeit a fairly reluctant one.

I enjoyed the book very much. Thank you to NetGalley and Severn House for allowing me access to the ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I'd not read the fist book in this series but it didn't matter most of the time. Greg just wants to be a teacher, but gets dragged back into solving local crimes and evading Russian spies.
I enjoyed this story and will probably get the first book to find out more about Greg.

I almost exploded when I reviewed A Quiet Teacher, the first book in the, um, “Quiet Teacher” series, as to how good it was. Any other month, it would have walked away with the Book Of The Month, but up against stiff competition, I decided to award it elsewhere, because I already had this waiting for me on my Kindle.

It’s a continuation of the previous book but can be read as a standalone. There aren’t any spoilers for the previous book, unless anyone reading that one thought that Greg would be exposed and carted off to Russia at the end of it. No, he’s still living in Pittsburgh, slowly making friends and settling into life.

Again, there are two significant strands here, with Greg dealing with the Morosov situation as well as the “suicide” of a board member of a rival school where his friend is about to take up a post as head of science. It seems the school board was divided on the direction of the curriculum, whether to include, for example, critical race theory.

Oyebanji makes it clear that this is very much set in present-day America, a nation that is divided on a good many issues. None of this is hammered home, and fits naturally into the story, but it gives an extra vibrancy to the story,

There are two mysteries at the heart of this – who killed the board member and what happened to Morosov – and Oyebanji does a beautiful job of weaving the stories together. It has been a while since I’ve been genuinely surprised by the identity of a murderer but when the truth comes out in a fascinating setting for the final exposition, I was definitely caught out.

The series is touted in the blurb as “Agatha Christie meets John Le Carré”. Now, I can’t speak for the Le Carre part, but as for Dame Agatha – clues, a complex plot and compelling characters. Yes, I can go with that.

Like other reviewers I had not read the first book in the Quiet Teacher Mystery series which led to some confusion for me. Black British ex pay Greg Abimbola is a Russian language teacher whilst the book is set in Pittsburgh USA. These facts inevitably provide license for the author to utilise American Russian conflicts in the storyline. A quick read but perhaps not the Agatha Christie style that the preview suggests, more towards John Le Carre.

This is the second novel in a series about Greg Abimbola, a Black British/Russian teacher of Russian and French in a Pittsburgh High School. I think I would have found the book easier to get into if I had read the previous book first. As it was it took me a while to realise that Greg used to in the employ of the Russian Secret Service. There are rather a lot of characters in the book and several story lines which made it a bit confusing. The reader learns that in the first book Greg had solved a murder for which the school caretaker Andrea had been framed. Andrea is now the closest to a friend that Greg, who lives alone, seems to have. I really liked the character of Andrea and her determination to get a job more suited to her considerable intellectual skills. In this book Greg is caught up in solving two murders: his ex Russian employees want to find out who killed one of their own and the other black teacher at the school wants him to find out whether the ex husband of a friend committed suicide or was murdered. At the same time Greg is trying to resolve issues concerning some of his pupils. Of course there are some loose and tangled threads linking the various plot lines. I don't know when Greg ever had time to eat or sleep as he seemed to always be on the run, either for pleasure or for his life! Issues of race, religion and sexuality are raised in the book which take it beyond a spy thriller.
My thanks to the publisher via Net Galley for an ARC of this book which I have reviewed voluntarily.

Blown away by how much I enjoyed reading this book.

The plot stylishly merges the best of Agatha Christie and John Le Carre. The hero, Greg Abimbola, sometimes comes across as being somewhat naive and unsure what is happening in almost every social interaction. However that is not the whole story by a long way.

The Quiet teacher - I really liked when a colleague asked for a favour "as a friend". A friend! Greg was stunned! This was an entirely new concept for him to think about!

I can 100% recommend this book to others. High Quality in creativity, suspense and entertainment - with a degree of mystery. You cannot ask for much more.

The author, Adam Oyenanji is Scottish and is immediately a favourite. I look forward to reading more of his books!