The Thursday Murder Club
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4.0 • 1.3K Ratings
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Publisher Description
Brought to you by Penguin.
THE FIRST NOVEL IN THE RECORD-BREAKING, MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING THURSDAY MURDER CLUB SERIES.
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?
The Times Crime Book of the Month
Guardian Best Crime and Thrillers
'Smart, compassionate, warm, moving and so VERY funny' Marian Keyes
'So smart and funny. Deplorably good' Ian Rankin
'Thrilling, moving, laugh-out-loud funny' Mark Billingham
Richard Osman, Sunday Times bestseller, March 2024
The Bullet that Missed broke the record for the fastest-selling adult fiction hardback ever, September 2022
© Richard Osman 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron live in the peaceful Coopers Chase Retirement Village, where they meet each week to study unsolved crimes. Unfortunately for the sleuthing septuagenarians, local drama is lacking, with one example of recent controversy having been the formation of the Chat and Crochet splinter group, founded for residents who deemed the Knit and Natter class to have too much of the latter. But when a local property developer and all-round bad man is murdered, The Thursday Murder Club finally has something to sink its teeth into. DCI Chris Hudson and new recruit PC Donna De Freitas are also hunting the killer, with both often a few steps behind the foursome’s investigative nous. The clever plotline is complemented by Osman’s sharp humour, and some surprisingly tender moments of loss and longing, mostly courtesy of the diary entries of nosy neighbour Joyce, your new favourite crime-fighting heroine.
Customer Reviews
Mixed feelings
I enjoyed the book but the end was really disappointing to me.
The Thursday Murder Club
A gem of a book and highly entertaining
Refreshing and Charmingly Funny
I’m already looking forward to the next book. I really bonded with the main characters and thought it was a refreshingly modern take on a traditional drama. It’s also made me want to go and see my grandma and ask her loads of questions about her life.