{"id":111700,"date":"2025-09-01T21:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T21:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/111700\/"},"modified":"2025-09-01T21:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T21:45:11","slug":"heres-how-to-read-the-thursday-murder-club-books-in-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/111700\/","title":{"rendered":"Here’s How to Read ‘The Thursday Murder Club’ Books in Order"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Now that The Thursday Murder Club<\/a> is streaming on Netflix, new fans of the film may want to read the book it is based off of: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. However, there\u2019s not just one book in the series, but five. (The fifth, The Impossible Fortune, actually comes out later this month.)<\/p>\n

Like in the film, the books follow the core foursome\u2014Elizabeth, Ron, Joyce, and Ibrahim\u2014solving murder mysteries from their home in a retirement community called Coopers Chase.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to write about real people who happens to be in their eighties and can use the advantages of that in being invisible and having time on their hands. But I can\u2019t write it without showing the darker side of it and the grief and the death and the infirmities and all that. People, when they hear the idea might go, \u2018oh yeah, okay, I get what that\u2019s going to be. It\u2019s going to be cutesy old people, aren\u2019t they clever? Hopefully it\u2019s not, hopefully it\u2019s smart, mischievous, older people who go through an awful lot of pain in between solving crimes,\u201d Osman told T&C<\/a> around the publication of the fourth book in the series, The Last Devil to Die. \u201cI try never to veer from the truth of what it is to be a human being.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cI do have strong views about the way the world is going and the way we speak to each other as it was. I\u2019m trying to write something that has a counter narrative to it. By all means, read it as a lovely, cute, cozy crime book. But I think I\u2019m trying to do something else as well, which is to say I think we\u2019re probably kinder, nicer as human beings than we\u2019re currently being given credit for.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here, how to read all The Thursday Murder Club books in order:<\/p>\n

The Thursday Murder Club<\/p>\n

The first book in Osman\u2019s series introduces four septuagenarians\u2014Elizabeth, Ron, Joyce, and Ibrahim\u2014who meet Thursdays in their retirement home\u2019s \u201cJigsaw Room\u201d to discuss cold cases. When a local developer is found dead, the group finds themself in the middle of a live murder mystery.<\/p>\n

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$9.69 at amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n

The Man Who Died Twice<\/p>\n

Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim are looking for peace and quiet after solving a real murder\u2014but when an old friend of Elizabeth\u2019s turns up, desperate for her help after being accused of stealing diamonds, they are pulled into a new case. Can they catch the killer (and find the diamonds) before it\u2019s too late?<\/p>\n

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$32.19 at amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n

The Bullet That Missed<\/p>\n

In the third Thursday Murder Club, a cold case turns hot. Elizabeth is confronted by a new foe, who threatens her to kill someone or he will kill her friends.<\/p>\n

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$18.05 at amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n

The Last Devil to Die<\/p>\n

After an antique dealer from Brighton\u2014an old friend of Stephen\u2019s\u2014is killed, the gang investigates his mysterious death. As they solve the mystery, they encounter drug dealers, art forgers, and online scammers.<\/p>\n

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$15.67 at amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n

The Impossible Fortune<\/p>\n

The newest Thursday Murder Club book, set to be published on September 30 in the U.S., is a small time jump from the end of book four. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim are attending Joyce\u2019s daughter\u2019s wedding, and there, a guest asks Elizabeth for her help. When he disappears the next day, the Thursday Murder Club is on the case.<\/p>\n

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$25.00 at amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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