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“And if one is never lost in life, then clearly one has never traveled anywhere interesting.” Review Dump 3.

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman

The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman

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Thanks to this group, 2022 was the year in which I discovered Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim, otherwise known as the Thursday Murder Club. The Club has a few other members. Donna and Chris, sometimes Bogdan, and even Alan. And I cannot read about their adventures quickly enough. Why aren’t there 90 books about these people? For the very few who do not know, the Thursday Murder Club is a group of seniors who live in a retirement community and review unsolved murder cases in […]

“At one point he brushed my hand and there was electricity, but I think that was the combination of the deep carpet outside the restaurant and my new cardigan.”

The Bullet That Missed (The Thursday Murder Club, #3) by Richard Osman

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I don’t know how much more I can continue to say about these books, as my love for them is not diminishing but only growing, and the books are so consistent with what I love about them, I don’t want to just be saying the same things every time a new one is published. But I guess I’m going to anyway! Sorry. But not really. Our four septuagenarians are still at it, solving murders on Thursdays, and hopefully things have calmed down after the chaos […]

A Whole Cast of Jessica Fletchers

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

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In The Thursday Murder Club a group of retirees gather weekly to solve puzzles and mysteries – courtesy of a friend who has retired from the police force and who has a pile of unsolved cold cases to amuse and intrigue them. The story is told from more than one viewpoint and the reader is given the choice to read between the lines of some accounts, or to consider the reliability of the narrator. The Club soon evolves from being armchair detectives to the real thing […]

Only murders in the retirement home

Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

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Oh this was so fun! Set in Coopers Chase, a posh retirement home in rural England, four retirees with formidable skills from their former professions (a civil servant/spy, a psychiatrist, a union boss, a police officer) gather every Thursday to try to solve cold case mysteries or files that still nag at them. When one of their members becomes to ill to participate, they introduce a new member, Joyce, whose diary entries form a good chunk of the novel. Returning to a full complement of […]

The One Where I Don’t Like What I Think I Will Like

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

Perfect Prey by Helen Fields

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The Thursday Murder Club (Richard Osman) ** Perfect Prey (Helen Fields) ***½  Somewhere, in a very British and very sedate retirement village, a group of seniors get together in the jigsaw room where they solve unsolved crimes. They’re pushing eighty, they have opinions on which type of cake is better (walnut). They are Ron (former commie rabblerouser, scourge of the Thatcher era), Elizabeth (former detective with a fantabulous past full of the sort of intrigue James Bond could only have dreamed of), Ibrahim (former psychiatrist […]

A Cozy Mystery in a Luxury Retirement Community

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

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I have been on a long streak of not very good books.  Which is why I have not posted a review in ages.  Well, the streak is broken. The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman is a wonderful cozy mystery set in a luxury retirement community.  If his name sounds familiar, that is because Osman is a mainstay on many of the British Comedy Game Shows like Taskmaster and Would I Lie To You.  Lucky for us, it turns out he can write along with […]



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