The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
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. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be
pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves.
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?
Well I'm a bit torn on this one. It's a nice cosy read - think Midsomer Murders meets Miss Marple except Miss Marple has a gang of residents in a retirement village. The group meet once a meet to discuss cold cases but then they're presented with an actual murder.
It all gets a bit silly at times although in a funny sort of way. I just felt the author was trying to be too clever with the plot lines - there are lots of them to keep track of. And characters. It also switches between 1st and 3rd person POVs which didn't really add to the narrative.
I didn't hate the book - I got through it in two days - but I certainly didn't love it. Unfortunately I think some books by well known celebrities don't always get the rejections an unknown writer does.
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This book sounds a bit like the British show we are watching now called New Tricks about retired cops who are called back to help solve cold cases. We are enjoying it though. Thanks for the review, Wendy!
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