Michèle was our host this month. Present were Beth, Betty, Colette, Linda, Marg, Michèle, Shirley and coming back to the fold, an original member of the BookClub Marilyn. Michèle served a smoked salmon mousse on cucumber slices, a garlic dip with veggies and devilled eggs. A chocolate, strawberry cream dessert was served. Of course wine was available and tea.
We discussed Marg's book choice The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. Mr. Osman is a television and radio personality who in 2020 published his first crime fiction novel. It became an instant success selling over a million copies in the U.K. alone. It has become a series and three more novels with the Thursday Murder Club members have been published. According to Wikipedia, Steven Spielberg has acquired the book's film rights.
The Thursday Murder Club is a group of 4 retirees living in a well-to-do retirement village in Kent. They meet every Thursday to go over clues of a crime to try to solve it. They find themselves involved in a real crime when a developer of a retirement villages is murdered.
Most of our members enjoyed the book, found the storyline well developed though somewhat confusing near the end. The characters, the members of the Murder Club, Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron are well described as are the two detectives Chris and Donna. There is a fair amount of humour injected in the story and the plot moves well in short chapters.
Members found the book to be light reading and enjoyable. They liked the short chapters, that the characters were seniors who were active and into modern trends, all having cell phones and texting each other often. They seemed well connected and often had sources and clues that had the detectives "running" to catch up to them in trying to solve the two murders. Members liked that there were surprises at the end as to who were the murderers and why.
Thank you Marg for offering us an enjoyable read.
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