The Thursday Murder Club
by Richard Osman · first published 2020
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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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…by Peter Watts [1] I enjoyed the ideas in these books. The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again [2] by M. John Harrison. Beautiful writing. His descriptions give me vivid dreams if I read before bed. The Thursday Murder Club [3] by Richard Osman. Light reading, amusing, beginning of a series. [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Echopraxia_(novel) [2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/49201192-the-sunken-land... [3] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/54846475-the-thursday-mu...
on “Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?” ↗Richard Osman, who has worked as a screenwriter, producer, and TV host, has a lovely series of novels in the Agatha Christie style called Thursday Murder Club about a group of elderly residents of a retirement community who solve cold cases. One is a retired nurse named Joyce who is constantly fumbling with modernity. After several rejections she ends up with…
on “What Your Email Address Reveals About You: LLMs and Digital Footprints” ↗…that deal with themes of consciousness and first contact with alien intelligence. "The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again" by M. John Harrison Noted for beautiful writing and vivid descriptions. "The Thursday Murder Club" by Richard Osman A light and amusing mystery novel; the beginning of a series. "The Roman Empire in Crisis" by Paul N. Pearson A detailed account of the Crisis of the Third Century in Rome, incorporating…
on “Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?” ↗The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. Not as good as Wodehouse or Pratchett but I found the series amusing and not cynical.
on “Ask HN: Any interesting books you have read lately?” ↗