{"id":103080,"date":"2025-08-30T12:01:22","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T12:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/103080\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T12:01:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T12:01:22","slug":"how-to-read-the-thursday-murder-club-books-in-order-as-movie-drops-on-netflix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/103080\/","title":{"rendered":"How to read The Thursday Murder Club books in order \u2013\u00a0as movie drops on Netflix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/indyBest1_1.png\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"IndyBest\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Sign up to our free weekly newsletter for insider tips and product reviews from our shopping expertsSign up for our free IndyBest emailSign up for our free IndyBest email<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/indyBest1_1.png\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"IndyBest\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Thursday Murder Club book series, authored by presenter Richard Osman (House of Games and Pointless Celebrities), is perfect for cosy crime fans, loved for its humour, quirky characters and quintessential Britishness. The debut title became the UK\u2019s best-selling fiction book in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Set in a peaceful retirement village in Kent, the series introduces readers to four friends who meet every Thursday to solve cold case murders together. It\u2019s just for fun, but when a vicious murder takes place nearby, they delve into an active case \u2013 and, as the series unfolds, Osman ups the ante, and the crime-solving foursome are plunged into real danger. <\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re a fan of the series and have been waiting patiently for the next instalment, the wait is over \u2013\u00a0the fifth book, The Impossible Fortune (\u00a311, <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/buy.geni.us\/Proxy.ashx?tsid=3658&amp;articleId=b2816455&amp;GR_URL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.co.uk%2FImpossible-Fortune-multi-million-bestselling-Thursday%2Fdp%2F0241743982%3Fascsubtag%3DIN%7C2816455%7C0241743982\">Amazon.co.uk<\/a>), is available to pre-order ahead of its September release. <\/p>\n<p>In even more exciting news, the debut novel has been adapted for the screen \u2013 a film starring Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan is in cinemas and streaming on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/films\/reviews\/thursday-murder-club-netflix-review-cast-helen-mirren-pierce-brosnan-b2815457.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Netflix<\/a>. So, there\u2019s no better time to jump on the hype (and see if it lives up to it). <\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re not sure which book to pick up first, or you\u2019re not sure what book comes next, keep reading. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/The-Thursday-Murder-Club.png\"   loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"The Thursday Murder Club\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE sc-1oz7gn7-0 iwwbRX\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The Thursday Murder Club&#8217; by Richard Osman, published by Penguin<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/The-Man-Who-Died-Twice.png\"   loading=\"lazy\" alt=\" The Man Who Died Twice\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE sc-1oz7gn7-0 iwwbRX\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The Man Who Died Twice&#8217; by Richard Osman, published by Penguin<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/The-Bullet-That-Missed.png\"   loading=\"lazy\" alt=\" The Bullet That Missed\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE sc-1oz7gn7-0 iwwbRX\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u2018The Bullet That Missed\u2019 by Richard Osman, published by Penguin<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/The-Last-Devil-To-Die.png\"   loading=\"lazy\" alt=\" The Last Devil To Die\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE sc-1oz7gn7-0 iwwbRX\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The Last Devil To Die&#8217; by Richard Osman, published by Penguin<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/The-Impossible-Fortune.png\"   loading=\"lazy\" alt=\" The Impossible Fortune\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE sc-1oz7gn7-0 iwwbRX\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The Impossible Fortune&#8217; by Richard Osman, published by Penguin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sign up to our free weekly newsletter for insider tips and product reviews from our shopping expertsSign up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103081,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[457,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-103080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","tag-books","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103080","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103080"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103080\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103081"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}