The Thursday Murder Club - Richard Osman

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Title: The Thursday Murder Club
Author: Richard Osman
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Rating: 2.5 / 5
# pages: 430
Date read: September 2024

In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders.

But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves.

Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it's too late?


NB: This is not a bad rating! Goodreads translates 2 stars to "It was okay", which it was. I wasn't blown away by it, I didn't particularly like it - but it was okay.

I think part of it is that the book suffered from too much hype. I had had it sold to me as "an amazing read" and it just ... wasn't. I didn't grow to care for the characters, I wasn't really interested in the whodunnit part of it ... the writing style was fine, so it wasn't any great hardship to finish it, but I'm going to just leave it at the one and not bother with the rest of the series.