Book info

• Title The Thursday Murder Club
• Author Richard Osman
• Year 2020
• Genre Mystery

In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it's too late?

Thoughts

This is obviously a super popular book and one that has seemed to kickstart a whole cottage industry of gentle village-based murder mysteries (including the Marlowe ones I slightly prefer). I’ve kind of been avoiding this for no real reason but finally dipped in to see what all the fuss is about. It’s good, very character driven with subtle comedy and plenty of twists and turns. I did find it a bit sprawling and not sure I totally buy the resulting whodidits, but a good read nevertheless.

Rating: 3 / 5