Osman lays a few interesting trails for the reader and then drags some red herrings across them to keep everyone guessing right up to the reveal. Joyce dabbles in cryptocurrency Ron’s new lady is called on to use her talents on a body in a freshly-dug grave Stephen’s observational skills make a significant contribution a money-launderer chooses the wrong mug of tea Joyce tries her hand at writing crime fiction, though it seems she’s better, in this instance, at solving real-life crime. Eventually, in the interests of gaining information, Ron shares a pleasant afternoon of snooker with a crook and a former KGB colonel.Įlizabeth and Stephen are abducted, treated civilly and released Ron endures a massage Elizabeth and Joyce attend the taping of a TV game show and Elizabeth does a bit of acting it becomes clear that Ibrahim’s talent is definitely not cracking poetic code, although he’s quite good at anagrams DC Donna De Freitas becomes a TV star. Joyce enlists her daughter to look over the financials, giving the TMC a bit of direction for their investigation. It’s after Ibrahim visits a prison to ask an inmate for help that the object of their interest, a woman jailed for the VAT fraud, is murdered. Elizabeth Best, though, is a little distracted by a series of vaguely threatening text messages. It turns out that the pretext under which they invite Bethany’s colleague, the very well-known journalist/newsreader Mike Waghorn to join them, is totally unnecessary: Mike is very forthcoming, happy to share any skerrick of information he has with these four elderly sleuths. This is the cold case that Joyce Meadowcroft has selected for Coopers Chase’s Thursday Murder Club to next examine. Back in 2013, TV journalist Bethany Waites was about to crack wide open a massive case of VAT fraud when her car went off Shakespeare Cliff.

The Bullet That Missed is the third book in the Thursday Murder Club series by British TV presenter, producer, director, and novelist, Richard Osman. But can the gang solve the mystery and save Elizabeth before the murderer strikes again?įrom an upmarket spa to a prison cell complete with espresso machine to a luxury penthouse high in the sky, this third adventure of the Thursday Murder Club is full of the cleverness, intrigue, and irresistible charm that readers have come to expect from Richard Osman's bestselling series. While Elizabeth wrestles with her conscience (and a gun), Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim chase down the clues with help from old friends and new. Suddenly the cold case has become red hot.

A decade-old cold case-their favorite kind-leads them to a local news legend and a murder with no body and no answers. It is an ordinary Thursday, and things should finally be returning to normal.Įxcept trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are concerned. A new mystery is afoot in the third book in the Thursday Murder Club series from million-copy bestselling author Richard Osman.

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