The Impossible Fortune
by Richard Osman
Buy on AmazonWho's got time to think about murder when there's a wedding to plan? It’s been a quiet year for the Thursday Murder Club. Joyce is busy with table plans and first dances. Elizabeth is grieving. Ron is dealing with family troubles, and Ibrahim is still providing therapy to his favourite criminal. But when Elizabeth meets a wedding guest who’s in trouble, kidnap and death are hot on their heels once more. A villain wants access to an uncrackable code, and will stop at nothing to get it. Plunged back into action once more, can the gang solve the puzzle and a murder in time?
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"A wedding guest asks for help and then promptly disappears, setting off another installment in Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series. The central mystery is entertaining, of course – there’s a car bomb, a safe that can’t be opened, octogenarians trying to understand bitcoin (I mean, same). But the main event will always be Osman’s characters: There’s the core four sleuths – Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim – who are as funny and warm as ever. But one of the things I love about this series is that with every book the world expands more and more – we meet new friends, cops, relatives and criminals (who we will inevitably love) – and get to grow up with them. Because Osman knows that even pensioners have more to learn about love, grief, aging, friendship and cryptocurrency."
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