The Thursday Murder Club

 The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, 382 pages.

Four retirees have a spot of excitement when instead of their normal solving of cold cases they instead get a real live murder right in their retirement community. They will put all their cleverness and pure, concentrated nosiness into the investigation, and are determined to find they answers, even as the case gets twistier and twistier. 

I am extremely late to this party, but I'm glad I finally got around to it! Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim are all delightful, as is the supporting cast. I'm not normally very interested in cozy mysteries, but something about this cast convinced me that the lighter tone was particular in this case. The mystery is also very well put together, to the point that it's hard to believe that this is a debut novel. The twists feel like they make a lot of internal sense, but they were still enough to keep me guessing. My only complaint is that it is sometimes so twisty that I started losing track of which mysteries still had to be solved, to the point that I didn't realize the last mystery wrapped everything up when solved. Despite this minor quibble about the wrap-up, I was definitely charmed, and will be continuing the series.