Recently, I had the chance to listen to Richard Osman give a talk at a local bookstore about his new novel We Solve Murders. The book also marks the launch of a new series for Osman, as he (temporarily, he assures us) puts aside the Thursday Murder Club. One of the themes Osman constantly returned to was that, to him, character is much more important than the plot to a mystery novel’s success. Indeed, unlike many mystery writers, Osman swears he has no solution in […]

The fourth installment of Richard Osman’s hugely successful Thursday Murder Club series find the quartet of crime solving pensioners caught up in the international drug trade. When a friend of theirs turns up shot through the head in his car, Elizabeth, Ron, Joyce, and Ibrahim discover that his antique shop had been used as the drop point for a major shipment of heroin. All Kuldesh had to do was hold the box it was stored in overnight and sell it to the man who came […]