The Bullet That Missed: (The Thursday Murder Club 3)

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What is truly special in the books are the characters, whose age allows for a beautiful kind of interaction… For all the fizz of jokes and romance, the books carry with them a sense of grief and sadness which becomes much stronger in The Last Devil to Die…The kindness is his books comes out of something greater for Osman. Bestseller Osman’s diverting third Thursday Murder Club mystery (after 2021’s The Man Who Lived Twice) delivers laughs along with a nicely woven plot…. As they encounter drug dealers, art forgers, and online fraudsters—as well as heartache close to home—Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim have no idea whom to trust. Opening the new Osman is like sitting down to dinner with treasured friends you know are going to kill you - deliciously! A decade-old cold case—their favorite kind–leads them to a local news legend and a murder with no body and no answers.

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Richard’s also been a regular on game and panel shows like Would I Lie to You, Have I Got News For Your, and Taskmaster.While working as the creative director at TV giant Endemol, he pitched the idea for Pointless to the BBC, becoming the co-presenter along with Alexander, when it began in 2009. 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. While he was still in school, he got his very first broadcasting experience, working as a regular contributor to Turn it Up, an open-access music show that went on every Sunday evening on BBC Radio Sussex. Richard started chatting and found there to be some wit, talent, a sense of mischief, and wisdom of that generation. He remembers that when he was fifteen, staying up until after midnight to watch the 1985 snooker world final.

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I certainly hope there are MANY more Thursday Murder Club books to come as they are so entertaining. Osman’s greatest strength is fusing the puzzle-mastery of Christie and her Golden Age peers with emotional earnestness and wry humor.The strands of the plot multiply entertainingly and get tied together in the usual satisfying way… Osman serves up another delightful mystery.

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When Richard was only nine years old, his dad walked out on the family, which created difficulty for the rest of his life. The Thursday Murder Club is back, and that should make everyone happy — except, of course, murderers.The Thursday Murder Club, an international bestseller, was funny, original, baffling, poignant and thoroughly engaging. In the year 2017, he started hosting Richard Osman’s House of Games, a series where four panelists compete in general knowledge tests in a variety of entertaining games five days a week.

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Osman takes readers on an emotional journey, penning a story that deals with love, life and dementia, for a softer, more thoughtful tale than previous books in the series.The characters and their foibles both witty and endearingly recognisable, the genre captivating without the in depth blood guts and gore impressive, overall an entertaining read leaving you wanting more, hats off to Mr Osman and thank you. This is a fun, thoughtful, offbeat, and engaging mystery novel and a nice change of pace from darker, grislier crime novels. Osman doesn’t disappoint… Everything is here that fans of the series have come to expect: humour, warmth, the confounding of expectations as these pensioners investigate… Along with the laughs, there is grief, and an ending that is handled sensitively (I was weeping)… We all need a regular injection of the Thursday Murder Club to keep our spirits up.