The Thursday Murder Club

The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, 368 pages

In a quiet, upscale retirement community, while their neighbors knit and do crossword puzzles, four elderly residents gather weekly in the Jigsaw Room to work through police cold cases. But when the builder who was supposed to start an expansion project for the retirement community turns up dead, Joyce, Elizabeth, Ron, and Ibrahim suddenly have a timely case on their hands.

This is a light, fun, and laugh-out-loud funny mystery novel. I truly enjoyed reading it, and particularly loved the club's group dynamics and their investigative methods (one exchange: "You can get anything on the internet, the dark web. I read about it in the Lancet." "How would you even start to get to the dark web?" "Well, I'd imagine first you'd go buy a computer." "Oh! So we should start figuring out who has one of those."). I don't know if this is planned as a series, but I sure hope so. It's simply delightful.

*This book will be published Sept. 22, 2020.