The Thursday Murder Club
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. 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?
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At the Coopers Chase retirement village in rural Kent, four septuagenarians, the former intelligence officer Elizabeth, retired psychiatrist Ibrahim, union man Ron, and former nurse Joyce, meet on Thursdays to pick at unsolved cases. When the developer's partner is killed, the group has a live one.
Richard Osman has written five Thursday Murder Club novels so far: The Thursday Murder Club, The Man Who Died Twice, The Bullet That Missed, The Last Devil to Die, and The Impossible Fortune. The series continues.
Yes. Netflix released a 2025 film adaptation directed by Chris Columbus and starring Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley, and Celia Imrie.
The Thursday Murder Club was written by Richard Osman, published in 2020 by Penguin Publishing Group.
The Thursday Murder Club is 382 pages in standard print editions, though page counts vary slightly between hardcover, paperback, and large-print formats.
At an average reading pace of about 250 words per minute, The Thursday Murder Club takes most readers 6 to 8 hours to finish.
The Thursday Murder Club is a standalone novel by Richard Osman, not part of a series.
The Thursday Murder Club is available in hardcover, paperback, ebook, and audiobook formats from Amazon, Bookshop.org, ThriftBooks, and most major bookstores.