Back Cover Blurb of The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman:
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?
“Thank you so much for reading The Thursday Mystery Club. Unless you haven’t read it yet and have just turned straight to the acknowledgments, which I accept is a possibility. You must live your life as you choose.”
― Richard Osman, The Thursday Murder Club
Thursday Murder Club was a romp through a retirement community where not everyone survives and discussion of murder is mixed with gossip and tea. This book delivers on quirky characters and cozy mystery with light humor.
Unfortunately, to me it seemed like an advertisement for getting old. Look! Old people can still do things! Like day drink and gossip! I do like the concept of digging into old people’s fascinating tales, I felt like the nature of them being old lead the book to treat their murder and/ or suicide very casually. It did sort of make a sideways point about those getting to live in the classy old folks home as life’s winners, which I suppose is true, but maybe also depressing.
In the end, I finished it gladly, but have not picked up any of the sequels. Maybe next winter I will read another one. Or possibly good as a beach read, but I never actually read at the beach. It has a few to many details and characters for putting down part way through and picking up weeks or months later.
2 replies on “Thursday Murder Club: Book Review”
I recommend you start a new series of blog posts called “Thursday book club: murder review”, in which you tear each and every book you read to shreds.
Perhaps I am too harsh… I did really enjoy this book. As a book that is already on several popular “best” lists, but also reviews indicate that it can polarize readers, it seems more useful to point out what might turn off a potential reader. It was exactly what I was looking for when I read it and I inhaled it in a couple of days.