I read over half of the book, and it was a HARD slog, y'all. I was almost going to DNF it but then my mom and I decided to watch the movie based on this book (with Oscar winners Dame Helen Mirren and Ben Kingsley and silver-hotty-with-a-beard Pierce Brosnan). It doesn't happen often, but I have to say the movie was better than the book.
The movie is concise and hits all the important points. The book, on the other hand, gets lost --- so, so lost -- in extraneous non-important fluff and descriptions that do nothing to propel the story. Weeding through all the details to find the story was frustrating and the large cast of octogenarians became hard to distinguish.
I'll admit that I skimmed the last half of the book to 'get 'er done' and despite all its rave reviews, the book itself was a frustrating read, and I'd recommend the movie over the book in this case.
My Rating: 2.5 stars
Author: Richard Osman
Genre: Mystery
Series: Thursday Murder Club 1
Type and Source: Trade paperback, personal copy
Publisher: Penguin
First Published: August 3, 2021
Read: Sept 1-7, 2025
Book Description from GoodReads: In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders.
But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves.
Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it's too late?
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