Review

The Thursday Murder Club is a crowd-pleasing crime thriller for readers of a certain age

By Anna Creer
Updated October 6 2020 - 8:57pm, first published October 3 2020 - 12:00am
  • The Thursday Murder Club, by Richard Osman. Viking. $32.99.

British television producer and presenter Richard Osman has been a lifelong reader of crime fiction. The Thursday Murder Club is his debut contribution to the genre and the first of a series centred around four eclectic characters, all approaching 80, who live in a retirement village. It was reputedly acquired by Penguin/Viking in the biggest debut novel deal of the decade.