PC Donna De Freitas has just given a talk to a group of pensioners. Four of them invite her to lunch with them afterwards. There they inform her that they are the Thursday Murder Club. The four members of the club are: Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim.
The Thursday Murder Club has taken on cold case files smuggled out to them by a retired police officer. Not that they ever solved any of them. Now, they have a real case on their hands. One of the developers of their retirement village has been killed by blunt force to the head. They decide to help the police with their investigation.
Elizabeth and Joyce approach PC De Freitas. Unfortunately, she isn’t part of the investigating team. However, Ron and Ibrahim are in the process of convincing DCI Chris Hudson to add her to the team.
Elizabeth has her connections and gathers the financial records of the business partner of the victim. She and Joyce travel to London to visit Joyce’s daughter Joanna, who just happens to be a financial expert. They learned that the business partner mad £12 million upon the death of the victim.
But, then suddenly the business partner is dead. What is going on? And are all the residents of the pensioner village suspects? Because they were all nearby at the time he collapsed from a fentanyl overdose. The Thursday Murder Club has a list of thirty suspects.
On top of these two cases, the Thursday Murder Club has another body on their hands. A set of bones has been found in a grave, however what is unusual about the bones is that they are on top of a very old coffin. Are the bones associated with the death of the two men?
Can a set of amateur sleuths, well into their seventies and eighties solve these mysteries or will the police do all the work? Author Richard Osman has written a charming murder mystery, which was complex, and had some surprises. A thoroughly enjoyable read and hard to put down.
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