In this third outing with the Thursday Murder Club, the senior citizen sleuths are digging up the cold case of the murder of Bethany Waites, an up-and-coming TV journalist who was on the verge of uncovering a major scandal when she and her car went off a cliff and into the ocean. As Joyce, Ron, and Ibriham start schmoozing with the local TV anchor to dig into Bethany's last days, former MI6 agent Elizabeth gets a startling ultimatum: an unknown "Viking" tells her she must kill a former KGB agent or he'll kill Joyce. Juggling between the cold case and Elizabeth's secret task, the crew manages to get tangled up in prison visits, snooker games with money launderers, and even Bitcoin.
Just like the first two books in this series, The Bullet That Missed is a fun mystery with fantastic colorful characters. My one concern is that the cast is getting a bit unwieldy, with the four main members of the Thursday Murder Club, their friendly police officers, a Polish henchman who now does Elizabeth's bidding, and more. I fear that if this exponential growth continues, it's going to be more difficult to keep the twisty plotlines straight. That said, it was a fun story, and I'll certainly read the next one in the series.
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