{"id":2288,"date":"2021-02-25T14:19:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T14:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itmgames.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2288"},"modified":"2021-02-22T14:20:13","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T14:20:13","slug":"the-thursday-murder-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itmgames.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2288","title":{"rendered":"The Thursday Murder Club"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id=\"block-c6f007e0-ffa0-4ee0-95de-fb781bab385e\">I&#8217;ve just listened to The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. I don&#8217;t normally listen to books, but I enjoyed listening to this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-b21a9d2b-54a3-4c83-82ff-f1b9a276e58a\">Joyce is the newest member of the retirement village Thursday Murder Club. She begins the story of how they meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders. The other members of the team are Elizabeth, Ibrahim and Ron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-6c931963-626a-4734-a581-fef54f7cba4d\">They might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves when they find themselves in the middle of their first live case&#8230;..<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-d643922c-801c-4fa2-be87-60aa8b89bb50\">The story flowed well, moving at a cracking pace. There are numerous characters, sub plots and additional murders. Plus there are lots of secrets from the past that suddenly find the light of day. To be fair, I followed most of the explanations and reveals, but did have to replay the final chapter to fully understand all the motives and killers identities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-5cd08ec7-066c-4856-b8e0-1f23e081b7b5\">The Thursday Murder Club is available from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/books\/the-thursday-murder-club-the-record-breaking-sunday-times-number-one-bestseller-9780241988268\/9780241988268?aid=3668\" target=\"_blank\">City Adventurers Solve The Murder<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/0241425441\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=0241425441&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=invittoevent-21&amp;linkId=6ad40f7deaa631f5fb945e07e058d6f9\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;MarketPlace=GB&amp;ASIN=0241425441&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;WS=1&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;tag=invittoevent-21\"><\/a>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-798885d1-8e50-4731-b632-c3ee37c7d21b\">Also available from<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2NkN2jg\" target=\"_blank\"> Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" id=\"block-3d8cb3e3-d3b0-4707-ae12-227d1ed2c1ac\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-a95616a7-ff4b-4990-99b0-1b31f4cd716b\">The Thursday Murder Club 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"block-2b5786ca-e6ea-427c-9215-7e07820dad31\">The second novel in the Thursday Murder Club series by TV presenter Richard Osman is available to pre-order via City Adventurers at <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/uk.bookshop.org\/books\/the-thursday-murder-club-2\/9780241425428?aid=3668\" target=\"_blank\">Thursday Murder Club 2<\/a> and via <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3pMsBcc\" target=\"_blank\">Amazon<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/gp\/product\/0241425425\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1634&amp;creative=6738&amp;creativeASIN=0241425425&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=invittoevent-21&amp;linkId=03b73ff9eb67c8372f4ed4893dd3c323\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-eu.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;MarketPlace=GB&amp;ASIN=0241425425&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;WS=1&amp;Format=_SL250_&amp;tag=invittoevent-21\"><\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just listened to The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. I don&#8217;t normally listen to books, but I enjoyed listening to this one. Joyce is the newest member of the retirement village Thursday Murder Club. She begins the story of how they meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders. The other members&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/itmgames.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2288\">More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Thursday Murder Club<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,225],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-murder-mystery-books","category-mystery-books"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Thursday Murder Club - Solve The Murder<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/itmgames.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2288\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Thursday Murder Club - Solve The Murder\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#8217;ve just listened to The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. 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