The Bullet That Missed: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery
by Osman, Richard
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/As New
- ISBN 10
- 0593299396
- ISBN 13
- 9780593299395
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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About This Item
New York, NY: Pamela Dorman Books, 2022. Book. As New. Hardcover. American First. First printing stated on verso of title page; a solid, clean, unread copy in collectible condition; 342 pages.
Reviews
On Oct 30 2022, a reader said:
The Bullet That Missed is the third book in the Thursday Murder Club series by British TV presenter, producer, director, and novelist, Richard Osman. Back in 2013, TV journalist Bethany Waites was about to crack wide open a massive case of VAT fraud when her car went off Shakespeare Cliff. Her body was never found. This is the cold case that Joyce Meadowcroft has selected for Coopers Chase's Thursday Murder Club to next examine.
It turns out that the pretext under which they invite Bethany's colleague, the very well-known journalist/newsreader Mike Waghorn to join them, is totally unnecessary: Mike is very forthcoming, happy to share any skerrick of information he has with these four elderly sleuths. Elizabeth Best, though, is a little distracted by a series of vaguely threatening text messages.
It's after Ibrahim visits a prison to ask an inmate for help that the object of their interest, a woman jailed for the VAT fraud, is murdered. Joyce enlists her daughter to look over the financials, giving the TMC a bit of direction for their investigation. Eventually, in the interests of gaining information, Ron shares a pleasant afternoon of snooker with a crook and a former KGB colonel.
Elizabeth and Stephen are abducted, treated civilly and released; Ron endures a massage; Elizabeth and Joyce attend the taping of a TV game show and Elizabeth does a bit of acting; it becomes clear that Ibrahim's talent is definitely not cracking poetic code, although he's quite good at anagrams; DC Donna De Freitas becomes a TV star.
Joyce dabbles in cryptocurrency; Ron's new lady is called on to use her talents on a body in a freshly-dug grave; Stephen's observational skills make a significant contribution; a money-launderer chooses the wrong mug of tea; Joyce tries her hand at writing crime fiction, though it seems she's better, in this instance, at solving real-life crime.
Osman lays a few interesting trails for the reader and then drags some red herrings across them to keep everyone guessing right up to the reveal. And then adds a few more excellent twists just when you thought you had it all straight. All the regulars appear and Ron's grandson Kendrick even makes a quick but important appearance.
By the final pages there's a significant body count that could have been higher had a certain money launderer got his way. And also, had he not. Also, by the end of this instalment, quite a few rather delightful pairings have formed. As before, there's plenty of humour, some of it quite black, as well as a lump-in-the-throat moment. More of this cast is most definitely welcome.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Hourglass Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 023648
- Title
- The Bullet That Missed: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery
- Author
- Osman, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- As New
- Edition
- American First
- ISBN 10
- 0593299396
- ISBN 13
- 9780593299395
- Publisher
- Pamela Dorman Books
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2022
- Keywords
- Mystery
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.