By: Richard Osman
Narrated by: Lesley Manville
Series: A Thursday Murder Club Mystery, Book 1
Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Library Loan
Publisher's Summary
Four septuagenarians with a few tricks up their sleeves.
A female cop with her first big case.
A brutal murder.
Welcome to...
The Thursday Murder Club
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together, they call themselves the Thursday Murder Club.
When a local developer is found dead with a mysterious photograph left next to the body, the Thursday Murder Club suddenly find themselves in the middle of their first live case.
As the bodies begin to pile up, can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer, before it's too late?
©2020 Richard Osman (P)2020 Penguin Audio
Characters Like Me
No doubt about it, I am a Boomer. I live in 'over 55' housing, down the street from a rehab facility and two different assisted living facilities (not that I expect to end up in either of them because when the kids pick my nursing home, they will pick something much closer to them). So why is it that these days, I seem to be reading a lot of old fart fiction -- Deacon King Kong, The Reading List, Louise Penny's Inspector Gamache series and when you get right down to it, Papa Poirot. Is this my way of preparing for the future? of starting to deal with the fact that, yup, I'm not as young as I think I am? Oh, gawd, I hope not! In the meantime, I will just continue to make fun of my predilection for the genre.
I really enjoyed the book and it had nothing to do with the fact that main characters were my age. I liked the book because I like the characters themselves; they are people I would want to hang out with. They were good people, aging gracefully. I liked the book because it was a damned good mystery--and would have been regardless of the age of the sleuths. I'm already on the waiting list for book two and looking forward to it.
If you read the audio version, stick around for the interview with Richard Osman.
Another four star read.
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