The Thursday Murder Club

Richard Osman

Having read it

★★★☆☆

To be honest, not a great read. It all felt a little over the top and a little like something submitted for a writing course. A few neat passages and phrases and showing off what kind of characters can be invented and developed, but not a story that held my attention.

I didn’t read all of it and skipped quite a few parts but sort of made it to the end to not really be bothered by what had happened; still, at least its chapters were short!

A good passage

Elizabeth and Joyce settle into conversation. They are very careful not to talk about the Tony Curran case. One of the first things you learn at Coopers Chase is that some people can still actually hear. Instead, Elizabeth tells Joyce about the last time she went to Fairhaven, which was sometime in the 1960s and whose purpose concerned a piece of equipment that had washed up on the beach. Elizabeth refuses to be drawn into details, but tells Joyce it was almost certainly now a matter of public record and she could presumably look it up somewhere if she was interested. The journey passes very pleasantly. The sun is up, the skies are blue and murder is in the air.