This months book was a 2020 release, The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. 400 pages of mystery crime fiction.

Since the whole point of a mystery is keeping things… well,, a mystery, I will be sure not to be dropping any spoilers.

The Thursday Murder club is about a group of old friends (Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim, and Ron) meet on Thursdays of course, at thier Cooper’s Chase Retirement village for a bit of drinking and to discuss and try to solve old unsolved crimes in the surrounding Kent England for fun.

That is until someone that they all know in the village is murdered.
The local police are slow in catching the murderer, so the club members investigate for themselves. All four members do have at least a little background dealing with criminals in their past professions.

But the club starts running into darker information of other people that they know or have known for quite sometime, and some of this information may connect older unsolved and unknown murders.

I have to say that for me, this book was at times a rough read. They story plot and overall action of the story was good. Good direction and information giving. But the way there was perspective flip flopping at times were just too much.

When book jumped into Joyce’s diary mode though, things usually straightened back out. But the further along and the more extra suspects were brought into the story, the more times I needed to go back and reread whole chapters.
But even then it was a fairly quick read for 400 pages.

The book really did have good plot, good description, and conclusion. At time it really felt like a classic murder mystery with definite modern setting and phrasings. Some om which were funny as I laughed more than once.

I would assume this was written with intent to be on screen. Just the way the different perspectives were handled felt more like a movie than a book.

I would love to give this a higher score than what I did,, but having to back track as much as I did just because the story structure lost me makes me drop it down a bit. But it still was a good book. 3 out of 5.
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman