Read by Lesley Manville
12 hours 26 minutes
Published September 2020 by Viking Press
Publisher’s Summary:
Four septuagenarians with a few tricks up their sleeves
A female cop with her first big case
A brutal murder
Welcome to...
THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves the Thursday Murder Club.
When a local developer is found dead with a mysterious photograph left next to the body, the Thursday Murder Club suddenly find themselves in the middle of their first live case.
As the bodies begin to pile up, can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer, before it's too late?
My Thoughts:
Both this book and the Netflix adaptation where recommended to me by my dad; it was the last book he ever recommended to me and I would have read it, whether or not I thought it was something that would appeal to me. As you know, my dad was an avid reader; he was also an avid viewer of Netflix movies and series. When he discovered that the book that his care home's book club was reading had been adapted for Netflix, he decided to make it a read/watch combo. I'm glad I took his recommendation on both the book and the adaptation, which stars Helen Mirren, Ben Kingsley, and Pierce Brosnan.
The older I get, the more I enjoy about older people, especially those who are living their best lives, being useful and clever and not just accepting that it's time to sit back and get out of the way. This group of friends combines their skills (and the smarts to get a police woman to work with them) to not only solve the murder, but to save the peace of the retirement village for all of the residents. It's surprisingly funny, I loved the characters, and it was twisted enough that I never saw the ending coming. Which, of course, I know is not that rare, but still
I highly recommend the audiobook; Lesley Manville's reading is marvelous. I also highly recommend the adaptation, which is never weighed down by its all-star cast, who all shine, and stays true to the book.
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