Plano Reads: The Thursday Murder Club

For November’s meeting of the Mystery Book Club, we are reading Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. Join us to discuss this book on Thursday, November 17 at 7pm both at Davis Library and virtually through Zoom. To join us virtually, register here. 

Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

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Description from Libby:

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. 
 
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?

From Publishers Weekly:

British TV celebrity Osman mixes mirth and murder in his exceptional debut, a series launch featuring the four members of the Thursday Murder Club, residents of the Coopers Chase Retirement Village in Kent. Despite their different backgrounds, Elizabeth, Ibrahim, Joyce, and Ron share an interest in solving mysteries. When 26-year-old Donna De Freitas, a police constable who dreams of pursuing serial killers, visits the home to talk to the pensioners about “Practical Tips for Home Security,” the club members arrange for Donna to be assigned to a homicide case they have a connection to by manipulating her boss, so that they can get access to the investigation through a grateful Donna. That way they can take a crack at solving the bludgeoning murder of drug dealer Tony Curran, who operated a building business as a front, and whose killer left a photo of three men, one of whom is Ron’s son, near Curran’s corpse. They use their individual talents, including Joyce’s gift for gathering information unobtrusively, and Ibrahim’s medical knowledge, which enables him to narrow the timing of a second, related killing. Osman’s witty prose is a highlight. Fans of Lynne Truss’s Constable Twitten mysteries will be tickled. 

Richard Osman is an author, producer and television presenter. He started in television producing and hosting several British game shows including ongoing series Pointless, a long running teatime quiz show, and Richard Osman’s House of Games. 

The Thursday Murder Club was his debut novel and was a multi-million-copy record-breaking bestseller around the world. He has since published two more novels in this series: The Man Who Died Twice (2021) and The Bullet that Missed (2022). 

He lives in London with his partner and Liesl the cat.

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