The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman

Title: The Last Devil to Die
By: Richard Osman

Definitely one of the better books in the Thursday Murder Club series, we’re starting to move away from the espionage and international smuggling operations and back to dealing with the murder of a friend of the Thursday Murder Club. We still have drug dealing as a topic, but that’s more a MacGuffin which sets the … Continued

The Bullet that Missed by Richard Osman

Title: The Bullet that Missed
By: Richard Osman

The third book in the Thursday Murder Club series. I did like the mystery in this one. It was clever and had a solution which was both unexpected but made so much sense in retrospect. The side-plot involving Elizabeth and more spycraft stuff, while there was nothing wrong with it, I just don’t think is … Continued

The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman

Title: The Man Who Died Twice
By: Richard Osman

The sequel to The Thursday Murder Club. Good points: the book gives us more of the characters and we get to delve more into them and how they cope with hard times in life. The characters and the way they interact are one of the great joys of this series. Like its predecessor, it’s laugh … Continued

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

Title: The Thursday Murder Club
By: Richard Osman

This is the book that started off the Thursday Murder Club series. The protagonists of this book are a foursome of retirees: Joy, the main point of view character, a widowed nurse. Elizabeth, a former employee of MI6 who can’t talk much about her career, and whose husband is in the early stages of dementia. … Continued