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The Bullet That Missed: (The Thursday Murder Club 3) Hardcover – 15 Sept. 2022
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THE THIRD NOVEL IN THE RECORD-BREAKING, MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING THURSDAY MURDER CLUB SERIES BY RICHARD OSMAN
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'Full of Osman's trademark charm, insight and intelligence' Lee Child
'Tender, hopeful and funny' Marian Keyes
'An absolute delight from start to finish' Shari Lapena
'A rattling good story' Ann Cleeves
It is an ordinary Thursday and things should finally be returning to normal.
Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are concerned. A decade-old cold case leads them to a local news legend and a murder with no body and no answers.
Then a new foe pays Elizabeth a visit. Her mission? Kill...or be killed.
As the cold case turns white hot, Elizabeth wrestles with her conscience (and a gun), while Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim chase down clues with help from old friends and new. But can the gang solve the mystery and save Elizabeth before the murderer strikes again?
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'Infectious, charming and full of heart' GILLIAN MCALLISTER
'I adored this thrilling adventure. His best yet!' CLAIRE DOUGLAS
'Another witty, charming and hugely entertaining read ... his best yet' SUNDAY EXPRESS
'A joy to be back...intrigue, red herrings and loads of charm'GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
'I snickered so much reading this one' THE OBSERVER
'Opening the new Osman is like sitting down to dinner with treasured friends you know are going to kill you - deliciously!' PETER JAMES
'Full of humour and heart, Osman delivers another must-read. I loved it' HARLAN COBEN
'A warm, wise and witty warning never to underestimate the elderly' VAL MCDERMID
'So smart and funny. Deplorably good' IAN RANKIN
'Thrilling, moving, laugh-out-loud funny' MARK BILLINGHAM
- Print length432 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherViking
- Publication date15 Sept. 2022
- Dimensions16.2 x 3.8 x 24 cm
- ISBN-100241512425
- ISBN-13978-0241512425
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Unlike the bullet, Richard Osman seems incapable of missing ― The Times
Delivered with the sharp wit that we associate with Osman ― Financial Times
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- Publisher : Viking; 1st edition (15 Sept. 2022)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 432 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0241512425
- ISBN-13 : 978-0241512425
- Dimensions : 16.2 x 3.8 x 24 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 37 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Richard Osman is an author, producer and television presenter. The Thursday Murder Club is his first novel. He is well known for TV shows including Pointless and Richard Osman’s House of Games. As the creative director of Endemol UK, Richard has worked as an executive producer on numerous shows including Deal Or No Deal and 8 Out of 10 Cats. He is also a regular on panel and game shows such as Have I Got News For You, Would I Lie To You and Taskmaster.
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Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 January 2023
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The gang at the retirement village are assembled to investigate the case of Bethany Waites' death many years ago...another cold case for the intrepid retirees under the leadership of ex-MI5 agent Elizabeth Best, her friends Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim - and Alan, Joyce's dog. This time we also have a tv studio, a quiz show, and a few of Elizabeth's old adversaries in the mix. More deaths...more threats...a cast of many new characters. It's all here. And Stephen, Elizabeth's forgetful and less than well husband, also gets involved with surprising results. Bogdan is back and there are love interests for several characters too.
Let Richard Osman entertain you with 91 chapters that whizz along taking us from Sussex to Staffordshire and into the heart of London, with in-jokes - not slapstick comedy - all told in Osman's inimitable spare prose, so well-crafted it never gets in the way of the reader's enjoyment or speed.
My own hobby of looking up places on an internet map has been well catered for - see the sky pool, the new American Embassy and the nearby publishing house. All these places are referenced in Osman's acknowledgement and his sense of fun is woven throughout this novel. He is a generous author who uses his own intellect and quiz knowledge to keep his readers glued to the pages as the mystery and adventure unfolds.
This is more than a cracking good tale - it is a masterclass in making writing look easy - because Richard Osman has truly found his calling. Book Four, due in September 2023, will be much-anticipated.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on 7 January 2023
The gang at the retirement village are assembled to investigate the case of Bethany Waites' death many years ago...another cold case for the intrepid retirees under the leadership of ex-MI5 agent Elizabeth Best, her friends Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim - and Alan, Joyce's dog. This time we also have a tv studio, a quiz show, and a few of Elizabeth's old adversaries in the mix. More deaths...more threats...a cast of many new characters. It's all here. And Stephen, Elizabeth's forgetful and less than well husband, also gets involved with surprising results. Bogdan is back and there are love interests for several characters too.
Let Richard Osman entertain you with 91 chapters that whizz along taking us from Sussex to Staffordshire and into the heart of London, with in-jokes - not slapstick comedy - all told in Osman's inimitable spare prose, so well-crafted it never gets in the way of the reader's enjoyment or speed.
My own hobby of looking up places on an internet map has been well catered for - see the sky pool, the new American Embassy and the nearby publishing house. All these places are referenced in Osman's acknowledgement and his sense of fun is woven throughout this novel. He is a generous author who uses his own intellect and quiz knowledge to keep his readers glued to the pages as the mystery and adventure unfolds.
This is more than a cracking good tale - it is a masterclass in making writing look easy - because Richard Osman has truly found his calling. Book Four, due in September 2023, will be much-anticipated.

While investigating the case, there are some great side stories. Elizabeth has been receiving threatening text messages and Ibrahim becomes involved in visiting Connie Johnson, crime boss from a former book. Of course, what Osman excels in is exploring worlds he knows and using this for his characters. From television studios to self-published authors, there are many sly digs at people and places. There is, also, quite a lot about age, as is to be expected with our characters. The ongoing issues with Elizabeth's beloved Stephen, the difficultly Ron feels when asked to reveal his elderly body in a massage parlour and completely leave his comfort zone, to characters who may be wealthy, powerful or violent, but who also feel lonely, miss playing snooker with friends, or just realise they have no friends. This is intelligent, humorous and moving, as well as being a great crime series. I look forward to the next outing.
His characters are engaging, clever, funny, 'ordinary', and completely non-judgemental, with the story being well paced - speeding along for a while and then taking a breather while the readers catch their breath.
One of the best book series that I've read in a very long time.
As usual this was an enjoyable romp with the introduction of new characters & surprises thrown in. There are a lot of very amusing moments, but also the sad ones, where Elizabeth worries about her husband's lessening grip on things. Somehow I didn't find this one quite as good as the previous two in the series, but I'm still looking forward to the next one.