The Last Devil To Die: The Thursday Murder Club 4

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The Last Devil to Die is a Cozy Mystery I devoured in two big gulps. It's full of eye-opening perspectives into the antiques business, drug-smuggling, fine-art fraud, and on-line romance fraud. But who am I kidding? I'm here for the four main characters in this series, their comradery and banter, along with Joyce's journal entries that keep me listening time and time again. I did crave a bit more of Joyce's loyal pooch Alan, but that's just the dog-lover in me chiming in.

Osman was born in 1970 and grew up near Hayward’s Heath in West Sussex. His father walked out on the family when he was nine, leaving his mother, Brenda, to scrape together a living as a teacher to raise Osman and his brother, the Suede bassist (and now author) Mat. “Money was always incredibly tight,” he says. “But I’m very fortunate that that hasn’t been a problem for a while.”At the time, Osman was riding high, but Boyz Unlimited proved to be a bump in the road. The show wasn’t renewed for another season; “that's two years of your life done,” Osman mused. It put him off writing for years. He would instead spend the next two decades at the production company Endemol, eventually as creative director, creating quiz shows like 8 Out of 10 Cats and Pointless, the show that would change his life irrevocably.

Is being a spy always this boring?’ he asks Elizabeth. She has been unusually quiet today. ‘It’s 90 per cent this, 5 per cent paperwork and 5 per cent killing people,’ says Elizabeth. While previous books in the Thursday Murder Club series have been full of action and crowded with characters, it becomes noticeably apparent early on that this book feels different with its quieter, softer tone, fewer characters, and an unexpected emotional punch. With that said, it's a topic that's handled in a most thoughtful and compassionate way by the author.I cannot think of another series with a more moving exploration of love after a lifetime together, and The Last Devil To Die reduced me to tears at more than one point.”

The pensioners take an immediate interest in the details of Sharma's execution-style murder and initiate an investigation of their own... The 4th edition of the Thursday Murder Club series is filled with crimes, philosophy and a short goodbye.

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The Last Devil to Die is equal parts well-plotted mystery, scintillating repartee and deep reflection on what it means to love and live.” As we have come to expect from Osman's writing, there is more than one tightly plotted mystery to unravel. Bestselling author Richard Osman’s latest book, The Last Devil to Die, is out September 19, 2023—and despite rumors, won’t be the final installment in his Thursday Murder Club Mystery series. picture alliance // Getty Images The gang are investigating the death of an old friend of Stephen’s, an antique dealer. He had gotten mixed up in a drug import scheme through no fault of his own. As the story progresses, more folks end up dead. This, the title. As with the previous books, the plot is well thought out and I was caught flat footed trying to figure out who was behind the murders. Osman turned 50 two years ago, something he admitted to feeling “depressed” about at the time. But so far his fifties have been a period of thrilling reinvention. Along with his success as an author, Osman got married last year to the actor Ingrid Oliver, whom he met when she was a contestant on House of Games (he has two twenty-something children from his previous marriage).