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.