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10th Anniversary by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro is to celebrate the book series having been around for 10 years, but also the friendship of Lindsay and Claire.

At the end of the last book, Lindsay had missed calls offering her the lieutenant job that she had had, and then given up.  We were left in suspense as to whether or not she wanted the job, and it turns out that she didn’t want it.  But now she has to get used to having a new boss, who was a new guy in the last book.

Lindsay and Joe get married, which is a good ending for the will they won’t they that has been bubbling in the background.

A teenage girl is found wandering, having recently given birth.  She tells the police that she was abducted, and her baby taken from her.  Meanwhile, Yuki is prosecuting a doctor for killing her husband, but Lindsay is asked by the doctor’s lawyer to talk to her as she’s innocent.

These are formulaic books, that are well paced, getting faster as you go on, shown by the chapters getting shorter and shorter.  The twists and turns are well thought out, and keep you guessing as you go along. 

10th Anniversary was published on 2 May 2011 and is available from Amazon, Waterstones and Bookshop.org.

You can follow James Patterson on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and his website.

I’m afraid I couldn’t find any links for Maxine Paetro for you to follow.

Women’s Murder Club books:

1st to Die   – book 1 

2nd Chance – book 2

3rd Degree – book 3

4th of July – book 4

The 5th Horseman – book 5

The 6th Target – book 6

7th Heaven – book 7

The 8th Confession – book 8;

The 9th Judgement – book 9

My review:

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman is a rolicking good read.  Set in a retirement village, a small group of retirees take over the jigsaw room on a Thursday.  They call themselves the Thursday Murder Club, and they look into cold cases.  One of the founding members was a retired policewoman, Penny, who is now in the hospital on site, as she has dementia.  But the club carries on, with Elizabeth, bossing people around, and with a mysterious background, Ibrahim, a retired psychiatrist, and Ron, known in the newspapers as Red Ron, due to his union ways, and always ready to try to get one over on those in charge.  Joyce is the newest member, and the one who records the story in her journal for us. 

A developer is the first person killed, which starts the investigation for the Thursday Murder Club.  They already have an ‘in’ with the police in the form of PC Donna de Freitas, who came to give a safety talk, and has been charmed and manipulated by the lovely, harmless retirees.  They get her involved in the murder investigation, and so they have a source!

This is a book that everyone was talking about last year, and deservedly so!  It’s got a lot going in, but was a fun read, and I’m looking forward to the sequel, which comes out in September!

The Thursday Murder Club was published on 3rd September 2020 and is available from Amazon, Waterstones and Bookshop.org.

You can follow Richard Osman on Twitter and Facebook.