Four 80-year-old friends solve cases for a lark

In 2020, the respected and popular English television personality, Richard Osman, published his first novel, The Thursday Murder Club. Over five million copies of Osman’s books have been sold since the first novel appeared, meriting the publishers’ tagline of ‘The Multi-Million-Copy Bestseller’ emblazoned on the top of the cover. The four friends set up something called The Thursday Murder Club and, as a pastime, try to solve cold cases from old police files. Soumya Bhattacharya is the author of six acclaimed books of fiction, non-fiction and memoir, the latest being the novel, Thirteen Kinds of Love The Last Devil to Die By Richard Osman Penguin pp.