The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

So August was a bumpy month to say the least, but I did achieve my goal of finishing The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman before the movie adaptation hit Netflix. Earlier this year, I read his book We Solve Murders and really enjoyed it. Would I enjoy his most famous work? That was a mystery that didn’t take four senior citizens to solve.

There are three bodies and two murders vexing our Thursday Murder Club, but for me, it wasn’t the mysteries that hooked me. It was the character work. Frankly, I found pieces of the mystery plot lacking just a bit, including the resolution to one of the cases. In the end, it didn’t matter, though. I had so much fun hanging out with the four main characters that I would have read a book where they did almost anything. I’ll definitely be back for the next book in the series. Four and a half outta five stars.

(Fingers crossed the movie is good! The trailer has me a little nervous now that I’ve finished the book.)