The Thursday Murder Club
By Richard Osman
Rating 2.5/5
Genres : Mystery, Murder, Fiction
This book felt like a work of an amaetur and probably someone with very limited/naive imagination. This is an unusual way of solving murders for sure..totally non-reliant on the modern techniques of crime solving like forensic blood analysis, finger printing etc. A bunch of four 80+ year olds form a Thursday murder club and assist police to solve crime mysteries from the past that are still unsolved or new murders that happened. A couple of murders happen with the first victim Tony bludgeoned to death and the second Ian ventham poisoned. They are completely unrelated to one another as the investigation unveils towards the end but initially both seem connected as Tony and Ian were seen arguing a few days/hours back. The TMC nails the perpetrators purely through hunches and old fashioned investigation techniques which made me wonder at the solving rate of the club? I was surprised at how easy it was to make the perpetrators confess and accept their crimes. Just questioning them if they had done it is enough to make them bow their heads and agree to the crime unraveling the whole story. Also the actual murders themselves were preposterous and childish..someone killing someone 50 years ago and someone else killing the one who did the killing blah blah blah..
I felt it a bit shoddy and was distracted for the most part..because of the trivial details that were heavily laden with the main facts. The police looked weak and amateurish next to the actual amateurs whose brain function must have already started deteriorating if not just their physical selves.
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