The Thursday Murder Club

I had a deadline to read this book - The Thursday Murder Club, by Richard Osman.

I’ll tell you more about that tomorrow.

But the long and short of it was I requested it from the library a long time ago, because I had to finish it before July 21st.

It was a few weeks before I finally got the note that the book had arrived, on July 12th.

I went straight to the library to get it before the library closed on Saturday and got to reading.

It was a pretty engaging book, so I had no trouble reading the 30 pages a day I needed to read in order to meet my deadline…and sometimes more, as it sometimes goes in this type of situation.

It’s a book about a group of older folks in a retirement community putting their skills together to solve a series of mysteries, each unfolding from one another, whether they follow procedures the police would approve of or not.

A while back I told you I had enjoyed Man On The Inside, the new Ted Danson show. This book was kind of like a combination of Man On The Inside and Only Murders In The Building, both of which I like very much.

I was surprised to read that for the author this was his first book. He apparently is a TV personality in Britain - I didn’t know of him - but this book is really well-written. It’s got all kinds of misleading red herrings and sometimes in a book that frustrates the heck out of me - I don’t like being tricked.

But in this one I was like, “Oh man, he got me again!”

And I didn’t mind.

I have since learned there are follow-up books furthering these characters’ lives. (I don’t know if I should call them sequels; I’m not sure they are sequels, but follow-up seems appropriate.) I can understand how that can develop - they are really rich characters and there are a lot of them and we really only scratch the surface of some of them in this book.

There’s also a Netflix movie based on the book coming soon. (Movie? Series? I think it’s a movie.)

I don’t know if I’ll read the other books - I’d probably enjoy them, so it’s a maybe, but I have so much I want to read I don’t know if I want to spend too much time in this world.

But I’ll see the movie.