What I'm Reading: THE IMPOSSIBLE FORTUNE by Richard Osman
The fifth installment in the Thursday Murder Club series
The Thursday Murder Club is back, but things have changed a bit. It’s a year after the events of LAST DEVIL TO DIE, and Elizabeth doesn’t quite have her groove back. But the gang is busy with their own lives. Joyce’s daughter is finally getting married. Ron is settling in with his new girlfriend. And Ibrahim is counselling Connie Johnson, who’s just been released from prison and still harbors a grudge against Ron. Donna and Chris play smaller roles this time, but both show up at key moments.
At the wedding, the best man, Nick asks Elizabeth for help finding the person who placed a still-undetonated bomb under his car then disappears. Feeling the pull of her old self, Elizabeth agrees to help and begins to find her way through her grief.
The beauty of this series about a motley group of septuagenarians living in a quaint retirement community is that with each installment, the main characters change and grow. The mystery, involving car bombs and a hidden fortune in BitCoin, is top-notch, but the characters are the heartbeat of the story. Osman employs his usual wit, with one of my favorite self-referential bits ever when Ron gets into two separate side conversations about who was the best James Bond. Perfect!
THE IMPOSSIBLE FORTUNE is available now.
Have you watched the Netflix series? What did you think?