The Man Who Died Twice: (The Thursday Murder Club 2)

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I don't think any threads were left untied, and I'm pleased to say our four heroes are more or less intact to fight another day! Chris and Donna are trying to put an end to drug queenpin Connie Johnson's murderous operation while Ibrahim is a victim of a brutal street attack. In this story we are reunited with Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim, shortly after the events of Book 1. Richard Osman fulfils the promise of his quintessentially English offbeat and comic crime debut, Thursday Murder Club (TMC), with this cracking sequel.

On the whole, this is an entertaining mystery for which you may need to suspend a bit of disbelief, but then I don’t really know what a “retired” MI5 operative and her “colleagues” are capable of. I enjoyed digging into Elizabeth's fascinating old life in the secret service and how issues with people and drama from her past that seemed resolved showed up again when she least expected it. Douglas is the one broke into the house and stuffed the gills with diamonds but he made a mistake by taking off his ski mask in front of surveillance cameras.

oh, and Joyce trying to figure out Instagram (I dare you not to laugh when you find out her username). Thanks to these intrepid, smart, inventive, resourceful and energetic lot who prove age is no barrier when it comes to enjoying life to the max I had a permanent grin on my face as I followed their escapades. In this one in particular, there's a bit of violence and a number of dead bodies and I just felt like, well, I don't think real people would continue to go along. This is the second outing of the Thursday Murder Club, a group of septuagenarians who look into cold murder cases for fun.

The pre-booked (no pun intended) franchising of book serials produces too many weak series and/or series that get progressively worse each book, the flipside when a series is written well, it becomes bigger than the sum of its parts, welcome to the Thursday Murder Club mystery series :) Club member, Elizabeth's past comes to her retirement complex as drug dealing, mugging (singular), theft, murders (plural) and more shake up (or is that stimulate) the lives of the four elderly Club members, their local police allies and everyone's favourite builder Bogdan, when her former employers Military Intelligence (and her former husband!

they won the hearts of readers up and down the country so the chance to catch up with the likes of Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim as they wheedle, manipulate, confuse, connive and charm their way through another investigation is an opportunity too good to miss.

Richard Osman is a popular TV personality in the UK, and has now released the second book in what is becoming a best-selling series. And someone from Elizabeth's past needs her help, bringing Elizabeth's life as a former secret agent with MI5 into the limelight. A brutal mugging, an unexpected visitor from the past, stolen diamonds, mafia-types, a lady drug-dealer/crime boss, and a trigger-happy killer! This proves to be an highly entertaining, fun, and engaging sequel, so definitely and deliciously moreish that I have no doubt that this will do as well, if not better than the first book for Osman. There wasn’t enough setting around the Coopers Chase retirement home and the Thursday Murder Club gathering like there was in book 1.I wondered how these two crimes could possibly be related but leave it to this group to find a way to punish all of those involved. The strength of a “Cozy” is its characters and it’s what I enjoy MOST in this series although the mystery is THIS book was much stronger and more entertaining than the one in the first, for me! It's such a great performance, I plan to listen to the audiobook when the next book in this series is published! Each of these four are so different but they bring so many things to the table and honestly, they’re all so endearing. Joyce, the diarist, is a former nurse, who seems a gentle, naïve soul, but there’s almost no blood and gore that she hasn’t seen before.