Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim find an old cold case that interests them, and they’d like to solve it. When they’re on the prowl, they’re going to get their way. Unfortunately for Elizabeth, she’s also dealing with a personal issue when someone from her past threatens her future. She’s reluctant to share this with her friends, but by keeping it to herself…is she putting them in danger? Elizabeth continues to show us not only her grit but also her softer side, as she grapples with her beloved husband’s dementia, and realizes that she now considers Joyce to be her best friend!

Joyce (and her humorous journal entries) continue to fill us in on the details, and she has definitely earned her spot in the Club as she “googles” for answers. Everyone has their favorite character, and mine is retired MI6 Agent Elizabeth Best. The woman is a hoot. Joyce Meadowcroft is a retired nurse, and Ibrahim Arif a renown psychiatrist. The fourth member is Ron Ritchie, a union organizer. The four get themselves involved in a cold case, money laundering, tax evasion scheme that resulted in an unsolved murder. An ex-KGB spy and an eccentric, jailed, drug dealer round out the band of major characters. Ibrahim Arif is a psychiatrist, still analysing everyone. Ron Ritchie is an old union organiser, always on the lookout for trouble and not afraid of finding it. Joyce Meadowcroft – gentle, naïve, Joyce – is their secretary and diarist. As always, each member of the group gets their own little piece of the spotlight, and the dialogue is snappy and often laugh out loud funny.THE THIRD NOVEL IN THE RECORD-BREAKING, MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING THURSDAY MURDER CLUB SERIES BY RICHARD OSMAN Then a new foe pays Elizabeth a visit. Her mission? Kill or be killed. Suddenly the cold case has become red hot. I believe this is the 3rd in the series, but you need not have read the first two to follow this one. The Bullet That Missed was another fantastic installment to the Thursday Murder Club series and (dare I say it?) even better than the first two. These books really do keep getting better and better. There will be no cavalry to save her this time. She has got herself into this mess, and she will have to get herself out of it.

About a decade ago, journalist Bethany Waites died when her car plunged over a cliff. At that time, she was working for a local television show. Before her car accident, Bethany had texted her colleague Mike Waghorn that she was on the precipice of exposing a fraudulent VAT scheme. But the best part is how layered these mysteries are. It’s obvious a lot of thought goes into these plots, and the intrigue is always absorbing. Osman concocts a satisfyingly complex whodunit full of neat twists and wrong turns. But unlike most crime novelists, he ensures his book’s strength and momentum stem not from its plot or its thrills but rather its perfectly formed characters. Once again, the quartet of friends makes for delightful company… Heartwarming and enthralling. ‘They carried a kind of magic, the four of them,’ a policeman muses. That magic is still there in abundance.” The Bullet That Missed is book #3 in the Thursday Murder club series. The unique, eccentric characters make this series a must-read, and this installment is no exception.

Creative Play

What information did she dig up that someone did not want her to unveil and why was her body never found? Well the Fab Four can’t wait to get to work on this case Ibrahim goes to the prison to ask Connie Johnson some questions but is not speaking to anyone.

The Thursday Murder Club meets every Thursday at 11am in the jigsaw room - except for one notable Thursday when they met at 8am, much to Ibrahim's consternation - to solve murders. They manage to do this rather well, although they usually manage to produce a few more bodies along the way. And it doesn't hurt that they have a couple of tame police officers in their outer circle. It was best to grab everything while you could. Who knows when your final swim might come, your final walk, your final kiss? Mike knows the story she is working on. He doesn't know the details - a reporter has to keep her secrets - but he knows it's a risky one. He's there if she needs him, but there are some things you have to do alone. Septuagenarians Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim are investigating the decade old unsolved murder of TV news show co-host and journalist Bethany Waites where things seem...well, suspicious. The victim's body was never found and all the cash, from a money laundering scheme Bethany was hotly researching for a story, has never been located. A bit fishy, wouldn't you say? As the cold case turns white hot, Elizabeth wrestles with her conscience (and a gun), while Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim chase down clues with help from old friends and new. But can the gang solve the mystery and save Elizabeth before the murderer strikes again?In this novel the gang is trying to solve a 10 year old cold case. A journalist, Bethany Waite, was said to have committed suicide by driving her car off a cliff, however her body has never been found. Bogdan? Not our Bogdan Jankowski? He’s a regular friend of the group, a slightly younger Polish ‘associate’, you might say, who has been very helpful at digging up graves and such in the past. A handy chap, to say the least. Why does Connie want to kill him?