Celebrity writers can be a hit and miss experience, so it was with trepidation that I approached Richard Osman's quintessentially offbeat British character driven crime fiction debut, but I need not h...
2.5 starsThis book was enjoyable, I’m not going to deny that. I liked reading about the quirky characters and their penchant for solving murders. It was an intriguing and funny premise which did in ...
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. The Thursday Murder Club meets every Thursday (hence the name...
Unpopular opinion alert... but I thought that this book was kind of terrible.It has a nice concept...sort of. It's partially set in a retirement village, and we are quickly introduced to a lot of quir...
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard OsmanFour residents of a very nice retirement village enjoy discussing unsolved crimes. They have quite the unofficial paper database because their former fourth o...
Laugh out loud funny! “Always look where the action isn’t, because that’s where the action is.”The Thursday Murder Club is an intelligent mystery about a group of senior citizens who find the...
“The sun is up,the skies are blue and murder is in the air.” Very good. VERY clever!4 elderly friends living in a retirement village have regular meetings where they look at cold cases and see i...
There seems to be an abundance of books this year about older folks and I have loved all the ones I’ve read. “Exit” by Belinda Bauer, “The Postscript Murders” by Elly Griffiths, and now this...
What a totally engaging and entertaining read. I guess it is the so called baby boomers causing this recent influx of books about old folks in the last stages of their lives and still living it to the...
This book turned out to be a perfect weekend read for me. A multi-layered mystery which despite several murders, including cold cases, refrains from being graphic.Senior citizens, who live together on...