The Thursday Murder Club - Richard Osman || Review

 

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?

I'm probably the last person in the world to read The Thursday Murder Club and i must admit it is because the film is coming out and it looks up my street so i figured i best give it a read before then. Upon starting this, i was certain it wasn't for me and that was that, but within a few chapters i was eating my words and have already ordered the rest of the series on vinted. 

I loved getting to know the “club” spending time learning what each member bought to them. Elizabeth been the strong matriach but also a bit of a mystery. But then spending time reading Joyce's diary gave insight into all of the members, it also gave another view of the happenings and goings on. I really enjoyed the diverse range of personalities that the group contains and almost the life experiences each member brings to the group.

What started as a bit of fun of solving cold cases left behind turns into investigating a real life murder and somehow the Thursday murder club end up smack bang in the middle of it all.

I have really been enjoying cozy mystery alongside thrillers as they just feel softer but just as gripping, and this was certainly that. It was written so that you was laughing along one minute but there was darker, deeper and more sentimental moments that really did get your feelings and were delicately written. 

I think as a reader i am often wary of "celebrity" writers and the story not holding depth, or even having really been written by the claimed author but this was wonderful, and i really enjoyed my time hanging out with The Thursday Murder Club.

An English television presenter, producer, director, and novelist.

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