The Thursday Murder Club

by Richard Osman

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About this book

In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders.

But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves.

Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it's too late?

“After a certain age, you can pretty much do whatever takes your fancy. No one tells you off, except for your doctors and your children..”

― Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club

Count your Coffees!

The best way to describe this book is 'Miss Marple meets The Golden Girls' and it delivers on every aspect of that promise.

Enter four elderly friends, all residents of the same peaceful retirement village, all members of The Thursday Murder Club: octogenarians who discuss cold murder cases. And while they might be plagued by the occasional memory loss, bad hips and the inability to get their heads around modern technology, these four investigators do not hesitate to use their old age to their advantage. After all, who can truly blame a cute little grandma for being meddlesome?

The Thursday Murder Club, the first book in a series with the same title, is first and foremost a cosy read. It comes with cardigans and lemon drizzle cake and reads like a literary visit to your gran. It's also an amusing and funny read that had me chuckling out loud on several occasions. The characters are so relatable yet archetypical that you can't but love them.

As a murder mystery, it does get a bit overcomplicated at times, just for the sake of adding another plot-twist, but that doesn't really spoil the fun of reading this book. Far from realistically true crime, but cosy murder instead.

I found it a very enjoyable, cosy read and I will be picking up the next books in the series as well.

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