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This cozy mystery is about to be made into a movie and I’m excited to see it. I was happy to find that it was available on Spotify Premium since the wait at the library was going to be a few more weeks and I wouldn’t be finished in time for book club.

The summary on Goodreads says, “in a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders. But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim, and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves.”

I gave this book 3.75 stars out of 5. Everyone in my book club gave it around 3 to 4 stars. I enjoyed having a different demographic as the main characters of the book. You don’t usually see older characters as all main characters.

I like English dry humor and the wit they always seem to have and this book isn’t short on that. One of my favorite sentences in the book reads, “the Sun is up, the skies are blue and murder is in the air.” They have fun banter and hearing them talk about new technology is funny, like talking about streaming shows on their TVs and how they don’t quite understand it.

I liked the writing even though I didn’t understand why Joyce had her own diary entry chapters. In an interview with the author, he says that Joyce’s chapters were meant to break up the other third person chapters, but it didn’t seem helpful to me until the end when she’s talking to her friend, Penny. Her chapters through out the book felt like she was just reinstating what they’d just talked about from a third person perspective.

The twist at the end is fun and finding out who the killer is was exciting and unexpected. Some thought this book was too cozy and wanted some bloody scenes, but others liked that it was a more toned down mystery. This book was different than what I normally read, but it was still engaging. I’m not sure if I’d read another book from this series though. I am interested to see what they do in the movie and what they could possibly change or keep the same as the book. All in all it was nice to have a change of pace and read a cozy mystery.