Richard Osman has delivered an interesting new mystery novel. The Thursday Murder Club is interesting because it is written from different perspectives and each of those characters speak in a different voice. Osman has captured the essence of each character and their different personality and style very well.
The Thursday Murder Club is made up of four elderly members of the assisted living facility at Cooper's Chase. This is a well equipped retirement community for those over 65 years of age, with many amenities including a restaurant with an extensive list of fine wines and good food. Here the four main characters of our story carry on meetings for their Murder Club in the jigsaw room on Thursday nights. Looking through old cold cases they try to solve unsolved murders for the fun of it, until someone is truly murdered who is connected to Cooper's Chase. Now they make friends with the local police and in a bumbling manner get themselves involved in solving this real murder mystery.
This book gets off to a very slow start and there are myriad of characters that were a little difficult to keep track of. The book is well written and I did enjoy some of the prose, which I will offer my favorite quote here about the seasons, but very much also a double entrendre about aging and life. "Summer is still keeping a lid on autumn , but it won't be long. How many more autumns for Elizabeth? how many more years of slipping on a comfortable pair of boots and walking through the leaves? One day spring will come without her. The daffodils will always come up by the lake, but you won't always be there to see them."
Elizabeth, the leader of the Murder Club is on her way to confront the person she thinks is the killer. As she joins her fellow club partners, Ron, Joyce and Ibrahim, thinking they have figured the puzzle out, Osman writes, " Elizabeth feels affinity with the late summer. The leaves clinging gamely on, the last hurrah of the heat, the odd trick still up its sleeve."
So with one last trick and twist the mystery of Cooper's Chase is solved.
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