The Thursday Murder Club: (The Thursday Murder Club 1)
Four retirees. One weekly cold-case club. Then, without warning, a very real body turns up on their doorstep. Richard Osman's debut novel takes a premise that could easily tip into cosy cliché and does something altogether more surprising with it. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron are all nudging eighty, yet they're sharper, funnier and more tenacious than most fictional detectives half their age. You'll underestimate them once. You won't do it twice. The story rattles along with genuine warmth and a plot that keeps you second-guessing right to the end. It's funny in a way that actually earns the laughs, rather than simply signposting where they should go. Critically acclaimed by the likes of Ian Rankin, Val McDermid and Marian Keyes, the book sits confidently in the tradition of classic British crime fiction while feeling entirely fresh. The Guardian named it among the best crime and thriller reads of its year, and The Times made it their Crime Book of the Month. Both are fair calls. If you want a mystery with genuine heart, proper comic timing and characters you'll genuinely miss when it's over, this is well worth your time.
- Author: Richard Osman
- Publisher: Penguin
- Genre: Thrillers & Suspense
- ISBN: 978-0241988268
- Pages: 400 pages