The Thursday Murder Club
by Osman, Richard
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- Fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1984880985
- ISBN 13
- 9781984880987
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About This Item
Penguin Books. Fine. 2021. Trade Paperback. No spine crease. Includes exerpt from The Man Who Died Twice and a Readers Guide . 370 pages. A Thursday Murder Club Mystery, No. 1 .
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On Sep 4 2021, a reader said:
The Thursday Murder Club is the first book in the series of the same title by British TV presenter, producer, director, and novelist, Richard Osman. When builder, property developer and drug dealer, Tony Curran is bludgeoned to death in his kitchen, the members of the Thursday Murder Club are inordinately delighted. They are accustomed to discussing cold cases from police files; a real live case is much more exciting!
The Thursday Murder Club meets weekly in the Jigsaw Room at Coopers Chase retirement village, of which they are all residents. Their leader, Elizabeth, is circumspect about her former life but it possibly involved espionage; Ibrahim Arif is a former psychiatrist; Joyce Meadowcroft, who strikes most people as quiet and sensible, was a nurse; Ron Ritchie, an infamous trade-union leader; and their now non-verbal, but never excluded member, Penny Gray was a Detective Inspector with Kent Police. PC Donna De Freitas, ex-London Met, has recently become an unofficial member.
The members, two of whom saw the pair arguing, are fairly certain that the owner of Coopers Chase, Ian Ventham murdered Tony Curran: he had motive, means and opportunity. Donna would love to be involved with the Murder Squad, solving this crime, but is relegated to school visits and home security talks. Until, that is, Elizabeth wields her mysterious influence, and she becomes DCI Chris Hudson's shadow. After all, the Thursday Murder Club needs a reliable information source.
Elizabeth and Joyce manage to track down some interesting facts that point to motive. Before they progress very far with the case, however, there is another murder, during a blockade of the adjoining cemetery, and present are residents, neighbours, members of the TMC, and their two tame cops: a not-inconsiderable suspect pool.
Meanwhile, a set of bones is located where they shouldn't be, and one of the suspects dies, all keeping the police and the TMC busy investigating and second-guessing the conclusions they reach.
Before they manage to solve two (or three?) murders, a trip to a Cypriot prison, a skating rink and a Folkestone florist are made, some evening spadework at a gravesite is done, a disused chapel confessional is brought into play, chess is played and much tea, alcohol and cake are consumed.
The story is told through a narrative from multiple perspectives interspersed with Joy Meadowcroft's chatty journal entries. With its hugely entertaining dialogue, this is a perfect mix of cosy crime fiction and British humour that should probably not be read in the Quiet Carriage of public transport as it is likely to have readers chuckling, snickering and laughing out loud. The follow-up, The Man Who Died Twice, is eagerly anticipated.
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- Bookseller
- Storbeck's (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
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- Title
- The Thursday Murder Club
- Author
- Osman, Richard
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1984880985
- ISBN 13
- 9781984880987
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Date Published
- 2021
- Keywords
- MYSTERY DETECTIVE, FICTION
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction / Mystery/Detective;
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