I’ve joined the band wagon and gone and read The Thursday Murder Club!
Thursday Murder – the blurb
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?
Go on then I’ll read it
It was with a resigned reluctance that I started to read Thursday Murder. It had just been SO popular that I didn’t want to read it. But like with most popular books (Normal People, Fifty Shades of Grey) I end up reading them eventually (superb and terrible respectively). There is more than a strong waft of Midsummer Murders about Thursday Murder but the thing is, I like Midsummer Murders (especially if watching with cheese and crackers). So I enjoyed the stereotypes, the side plots and the backdrop of the retirement village – who doesn’t want to retire there!?! It was a strong concept and had some fantastic characters. Never underestimate a pensioner!
More than anything though I appreciated how it made me laugh. Not many books do yet I chuckled at the observations, the unlikely quadlet running rings around everyone they met and Osman’s humor in general. Don’t be fooled though, it is a proper murder story with red herrings, plot twists and reveals.
I’m not afraid to say I loved it – book snobs you are missing out. There’s a second one already in the offing (The Man Who Died Twice) and I can’t wait to meet Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim again to see what they have been up to. Bravo Osman, it’s a treat.