The Bullet That Missed: (The Thursday Murder Club 3)

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I have been Googling but there's not much there. I got so desperate I even used Bing but the results were the same if a bit slower. - Joyce Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are concerned. A local news legend is on the hunt for a sensational headline, and soon the gang are hot on the trail of two murders, ten years apart. There is lots going on in this book but the story flows wonderfully. As in the other novels there is some great humor and I can’t help but love this group of characters, including the new additions. It's a typically convoluted story that eventually has people happily pairing off, working together, and generally becoming best versions of themselves. (Or are they?)

She pours herself a drink, and takes one final look at the bullet. Really, she has no choice at all. It is an ordinary Thursday, and things should finally be returning to normal. Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are concerned. A decade-old cold case-their favorite kind--leads them to a local news legend and a murder with no body and no answers.

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I feel like this series just keeps getting better and better. The mystery was a little weak in the first book, but it has improved so much over book 2 and this one. And through it all, it has retained its wonderful characters and that tongue-in-cheek British humor I love so much, with its quirkiness and gentle poking fun at the absurdity of life and growing old. The one small gripe I have is that this one might have run a little too long, and occasionally the pacing lagged, just a tiny bit- but of course, there is always something going on and my attention was never divided- it just felt like it took me a while to finish the book, this time around. But that’s a very small quibble. Elizabeth continues to show us not only her grit but also her softer side, as she grapples with her beloved husband’s dementia, and realizes that she now considers Joyce to be her best friend! Once again, I feel it should be stressed that while this series often lands in the cozy category, anyone who loves mysteries or crime fiction will like this series. It’s smart, clever and oh so entertaining!

The Bullet That Missed hits on every front. Its quandaries stymie, its solutions thrill, its banter is worth reciting and its characters exemplify an admirable camaraderie. One can only hope that the Thursday Murder Club’s next outing appears before long.” Has Elizabeth ever led a simple life? She was previously a spook with Britain’s MI5, and when she was looking into a cold case recently, she called on three friends from her retirement village for help. Together, they are the Thursday Murder Club. So, they have set up an interview with her former co-host from “South East Tonight” as a ruse to see if Mike Waghorn, might have some inside information that would help them solve the case. Ron will be interviewed for a piece on “retirement living” and then the gang will invite Mike to join them for dinner and serve him enough red wine to hopefully loosen his tongue. If you're looking for a quiet cozy mystery, this wouldn't be it. It's full of action, mystery, suspects, and questionable acquaintances from Elizabeth's past, beginning to end. There's no shortage of characters, some have been around for a while in the series, others are new, and it does get a little crowded and creates a bit of a muddle to the audiobook voicing. Such a shame! Osman concocts a satisfyingly complex whodunit full of neat twists and wrong turns. But unlike most crime novelists, he ensures his book’s strength and momentum stem not from its plot or its thrills but rather its perfectly formed characters. Once again, the quartet of friends makes for delightful company… Heartwarming and enthralling. ‘They carried a kind of magic, the four of them,’ a policeman muses. That magic is still there in abundance.”

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She writes her message and presses send. He won't reply tonight; it's late. That's probably for the best. She can hear his voice now: 'Who texts at ten p.m.? Millennials and sex pests, that's who.' But the best part is how layered these mysteries are. It’s obvious a lot of thought goes into these plots, and the intrigue is always absorbing. In this novel the gang is trying to solve a 10 year old cold case. A journalist, Bethany Waite, was said to have committed suicide by driving her car off a cliff, however her body has never been found. The Thursday Murder Club meets every Thursday at 11am in the jigsaw room - except for one notable Thursday when they met at 8am, much to Ibrahim's consternation - to solve murders. They manage to do this rather well, although they usually manage to produce a few more bodies along the way. And it doesn't hurt that they have a couple of tame police officers in their outer circle. It can be hard to run a multimillion-pound drugs gang from a prison cell. But it is not, as Connie Johnson is discovering, impossible.

THE THIRD NOVEL IN THE RECORD-BREAKING, MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING THURSDAY MURDER CLUB SERIES BY RICHARD OSMAN Ibrahim Arif is a psychiatrist, still analysing everyone. Ron Ritchie is an old union organiser, always on the lookout for trouble and not afraid of finding it. Joyce Meadowcroft – gentle, naïve, Joyce – is their secretary and diarist. The chapters are short, smart and full of wit, and every character brings flavor to the story. My one and only issue with the book, and the reason for 4 stars rather than 5, is that there was almost TOO much going on, and it created some confusion at times trying to keep all the characters and their connections straight. I’m not sure I’d try this on audio alone, because I found myself needing to look up names and situations a few times, but if you pay close attention you should be fine. Got my copy on publication day (U.S.) and I’ve been glued to it all day! It was certainly worth the wait!

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But Bethany dreams of more, and maybe this is her chance. A dangerous chance, but a chance all the same. Then a new foe pays Elizabeth a visit. Her mission? Kill or be killed. Suddenly the cold case has become red hot. About a decade ago, journalist Bethany Waites died when her car plunged over a cliff. At that time, she was working for a local television show. Before her car accident, Bethany had texted her colleague Mike Waghorn that she was on the precipice of exposing a fraudulent VAT scheme. The simple life is all well and good, but, in this moment, with a murder to investigate, and threatening texts arriving daily, Elizabeth realizes that she has missed trouble.