The Thursday Murder Club
Four retirees in their seventies solving actual murders. Osman makes aging funny and the mystery genuinely clever. A rare combination.
Coopers Chase
Richard Osman's 2020 debut novel follows four residents of a retirement village in Kent who meet every Thursday to examine unsolved murders from cold case files. When a local property developer is killed and the case is anything but cold, Joyce, Elizabeth, Ibrahim, and Ron find themselves in the middle of a real investigation, navigating police, suspects, and their own considerable health issues with remarkable skill. The novel is sharp, warm, and very funny about the invisibility of old people in English society. It became the fastest-selling debut crime novel in UK publishing history.
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"Getting old isn't for the faint-hearted, but then, what is?
"Richard Osman
Osman is best known as the co-host of the British television quiz show Pointless. He wrote the novel during lockdown and submitted it without telling his television colleagues, expecting rejection.
The novel broke records for debut crime fiction sales in the UK. The film adaptation has been in development at Netflix with a cast that includes Helen Mirren and Ben Kingsley.