DISCLOSURE: Thank you to Waitomo District Library for the loan of The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman. All opinions expressed in this review are entirely my own personal opinions. Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club are concerned. A local news legend is on the hunt for a sensational headline, and soon the gang are hot on the trail of two murders, ten years apart. THE THIRD NOVEL IN THE RECORD-BREAKING, MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING THURSDAY MURDER CLUB SERIES BY RICHARD OSMAN Other than that, this series shows no signs of slowing down. The characters are still sharp, the poignancy is still a big undercurrent that offsets the zaniness, and the plots get better and stronger as the series progresses.

The audiobook narrator Fiona Shaw makes a wonderful effort with gender voicing and delivering the appropriate voice inflections with the dialog to ensure a consistent listening experience, especially when it comes to the hints of humor. I do miss narrator Lesley Manville from book 2, but both ladies have done a remarkable job and have made my preference of the audiobook format for this series an easy win! Each book in the Thursday Murder Club series gets better and better. The mysteries are more intricately plotted and there are more interesting characters introduced. Everyone has their favorite character, and mine is retired MI6 Agent Elizabeth Best. The woman is a hoot. Joyce Meadowcroft is a retired nurse, and Ibrahim Arif a renown psychiatrist. The fourth member is Ron Ritchie, a union organizer. The four get themselves involved in a cold case, money laundering, tax evasion scheme that resulted in an unsolved murder. An ex-KGB spy and an eccentric, jailed, drug dealer round out the band of major characters. Other ‘associates’ we’ve met before are Elizabeth’s beloved husband, Stephen, who has dementia but who can still win a mean game of chess against Bogdan – when he remembers he knows how to play. His now-and-then memory is useful, but Elizabeth despairs about his future.

ABOUT 'THE BULLET THAT MISSED': It is an ordinary Thursday, and things should finally be returning to normal.

but my fault really 😬 probably would’ve been higher but i listened to the audio book (my first one) and actually found it so much harder to visualise and i got confused where i was and who was speaking all the time There's romance in the air for a few of our characters and the humor is at its best. Joyce is still writing in her diary, with her loyal pooch Alan by her side, which is always a highlight in this series for me. She certainly showed skills in this book we didn't know she had, didn't she? I do believe Joyce and Ibrahim are my favorites and I love how Bogdan always takes such good care of Elizabeth's husband Stephen. He's such a fine chap! A new mystery is afoot in the third book in the Thursday Murder Club series from record-breaking, bestselling author Richard Osman. I think that I will re-read this book before the next instalment, just to see if I will feel different. It's a typically convoluted story that eventually has people happily pairing off, working together, and generally becoming best versions of themselves. (Or are they?)I had a hankering for a cozy mystery, now that I’m on that bandwagon, and what better than one of Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club sleuths? I haven’t had the pleasure of being with the four septuagenarian sleuths in a long time.