Title: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
Book Beginning quote:
Joyce.Well, Let's start with Elizabeth, shall we? And see where that gets us?
Friday56 quote:
After a certain age, you can pretty much do whatever takes your fancy. No one tells you off, except for your doctors and your children.
Summary:
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?
Review: I am fairly sure I was the last person on earth who had not read The Thursday Murder Club prior to this past week. My husband and I listened to it on a recent car trip and enjoyed it very much. Don was pretty critical of it at first, in terms of the mystery and the details that would lead us to figure who the killer, before I helped him realize the book was really about the members of the Thursday Murder Club. And since it is the first book in the series, we had a lot of characters to meet and get to know. As the story progressed the reading experience increased for him and for me, since I got to enjoy the book without having to stop the audiobook to explain stuff to him that he missed. Ha!
Now we are both ready to move on to the second book in the series. Can't wait.
At the end of the audiobook, an author interviewed Richard Osman. I may have enjoyed that just as much as I enjoyed the book. It was fun to take a peek into the life of this famous comedian from UK. I was familiar with him from his role on the game shows: Pointless and Taskmaster. He was very funny in both of those roles and as I listened to the book I kept imagining Richard Osman during his writing sessions. I could just picture him thinking up the witty statements and quirky characters. In the interview he said he didn't set out to write a funny or humorous novel, but a murder mystery which just happens to have a few funny things happen in it.
If you are one of the last people who hasn't read this book, too, let me recommend it to you.
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