This book has bizarre parallels with How to Find a Missing Girl: It is a feminist young-adult murder mystery The protagonists are a high school girl who wants to be a detective and another girl she’s been friends with for years who wants to be a journalist. (The detective is the POV character in HTFAMG … Continued
The prologue of this book opens with the narrator explaining the rules for murder mystery novels as established by the greats of the genre and advises the reader to bookmark that page so we can check he follows them. He explains that he aims to be a reliable narrator. He then lists the page numbers … Continued
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 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 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
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
