I was at lunch, this is two or three months ago, and it must have been a Monday, because it was shepherd’s pie. Elizabeth said she could see that I was eating, but wanted to ask me a question about knife wounds, if it wasn’t inconvenient?
I said, ‘Not at all, of course, please,’ or words to that effect. I won’t always remember everything exactly, I might as well tell you that now. So she opened a manila folder, and I saw some typed sheets and the edges of what looked like old photographs. Then she was straight into it.
Elizabeth asked me to imagine that a girl had been stabbed with a knife. I asked what sort of knife she had been stabbed with, and Elizabeth said probably just a normal kitchen knife. John Lewis. She didn’t say that, but that was what I pictured.
But when a local property developer shows up dead, 'The Thursday Murder Club' find themselves in the middle of their first live case.
The four friends, Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron, might be octogenarians, but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves. Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer, before it's too late?
This book has been on my radar for ages, I seen all the amazing reviews etc on Twitter and Instagram, so I know I’d be buying it at some point. But my lovely husband bought me it for Christmas, so it had to be my first read of 2021.
The first thought I had while reading this was it made me think it’s just something my Grandad would do haha! A group of friends in a retirement home diggin up old unsolved murders and trying to figure it out themselves. It’s brilliant, and they are a real bunch of characters. I loved the characters, even though there seemed to be quite a few and I sometimes forgot who was who! But the main group were great. I laughed a few times out loud, and smiled a lot more. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron were the main lot, and were all quiet comical. There was a lot of very slight humour there which I loved, little snippets of something funny. And some rather literal comments too which reminded me of my kids,
The police officers Donna and Chris were good characters, but I wasn’t sure if it would have been that easy for the Thursday Murder Club to have won Donna over and get in on the evidence of the murder enquiry. I guess that’s why it’s fiction though.
The murder mystery, I didn’t guess at all, I kept changing my mind throughout as to who I thought the murderer was, and there was quite a few to choose from!
I did enjoy this and gave it 4 stars, I would recommend it!
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