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The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman

22 reviews

elizabeth_henry's review

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Death, Dementia, Grief, Murder, Suicide attempt, Medical content, and Violence

prairieraven's review

adventurous funny lighthearted mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

Super fun book to read, a delightful collection of characters, this book had me pondering, laughing, sad, and pause for reflection. Super entertaining & intriguing, highly recommended for mystery lovers and those looking for a mystery book that is a bit less grim. Perfect for a rainy or Snowy day read. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Dementia, Misogyny, Pregnancy, Sexism, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Physical abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Gun violence, Toxic friendship, Toxic relationship, Violence, Child death, Death, Deportation, Drug use, Emotional abuse, Grief, Murder, Police brutality, Sexual assault, Trafficking, Alcohol, and Car accident

bonsai_delores's review against another edition

adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Contemporary mystery, well written complicated case. Loved how it kept me guessing. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide attempt, Dementia, and Suicide

Minor: Alcohol and Drug use

cedardleland's review

adventurous challenging dark mysterious slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

2.0

Like a lot of detective novels, this is very pro-police. And also commonly for a book with elderly main characters there's a lot of focus on death and grief of loved ones. It was a well-enough-written detective novel but I ended up finding most of the main characters unsympathetic and the implied ethics of the text disturbing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Murder, Suicide, Religious bigotry, Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, Dementia, and Grief

cait_margaret's review against another edition

funny hopeful mysterious medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? Yes

4.25

This was so fun and really engaging. The characters are so wonderfully built up and the plot was twisty without ever being hard to follow (which is especially appreciated since I was listening to the audiobook). I will say, there were chapters where the narration, though third person, was floating amongst several characters and those didn’t always work for me. I much preferred when it was a close third person or else the chapters from Joyce’s perspective, which were probably my favorite.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

mari_books's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? N/A

4.0

On its face the book is a fast paced almost beach read style mystery with a lovely and curious team of elderly detectives. There are lots of elements of mystery and emotional life/ death/ love/ family sentimental moments. Solidly 4 stars. Dinging one star for how anticlimactic the ending was and I think in general the author introduced too many characters it was kind of unneeded and hard to keep track of 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Terminal illness, Suicide attempt, Animal death, Death of parent, Suicide, Dementia, Suicidal thoughts, Mental illness, Death, and Child death

sophieneedsahug's review against another edition

funny lighthearted mysterious relaxing fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child death, Suicide, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Drug use and Dementia

readingthroughinfinity's review

funny lighthearted mysterious sad slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

My folks have both read this and I finally got round to reading it so we can have a little family book club discussion. The premise seemed so good (four pensioners at a sleepy retirement village attempt to solve a murder) and the way the mystery gradually unspooled was enjoyably intriguing, but the pacing was very slow to begin with. I know this was done for world-building purposes and to introduce us to the characters, but sometimes the story felt like it was meandering around the point a little too much. 

Having said that, the four main characters were funny and interesting and I feel like books sometimes write off older characters as insignificant, so it was nice to read a novel where they were front and center. There were times when things the characters said played to/reinforced stereotypes that weren't really necessary, but on the whole this a light-hearted read.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Suicide, Alcohol, Death, Suicide attempt, Dementia, Murder, and Animal death

therobinjoyce's review

lighthearted reflective slow-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

1.25

 Again, I felt like one of the last people on bookstagram to read this book and after all the hype I’d heard about it, I was expecting amazing things from The Thursday Murder Club. Unfortunately, I think the hype for this novel was very unprecedented and encouraged mainly by the fame of Richard Osman.

The book was initially hard to get into with the ever-shifting POVs and slow pacing but after a while, I could see a pattern emerging and it was a little simpler to follow each different narrator. But even then, the story was very long-winded and dragged on far too long.

Each chapter was rather short, which suited me well, but it would take roughly 10 pages of narration to finally read one sentence of information that was pertinent to the plot.

The characters were an unlikely and unusual bunch and could have been written so well but, alas, they all felt rather vanilla and boring to me and I could not connect with any of them. Donna was the only one I didn’t mind reading about but she had far too little “screen time” to keep me interested in the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Animal death, Blood, Child death, Chronic illness, Death, Dementia, Grief, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Racial slurs, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt, Suicide, Terminal illness, Violence, and Xenophobia

lkbooks's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted mysterious reflective relaxing sad fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Dementia, Murder, Suicide attempt, Terminal illness, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Chronic illness, Death, and Xenophobia

Moderate: Alcohol, Fatphobia, Sexism, Body shaming, Misogyny, Grief, and Death of parent

Minor: Miscarriage and Animal death