It’s wonderful to see how many people have fallen in love with Richard’s fabulous Thursday Murder Club and simply couldn’t wait to read the next instalment,” said his publisher Joanna Prior, managing director of Penguin General. “The response to these characters and the crimes they solve from readers around the world has been extraordinary and it has been a joy to work with retailers to make publication week such a big moment for everyone to share in.” But you may imagine nothing goes as it planned, dead bodies start piling up and our genius foursome find themselves into complex espionage scheme, fighting against real dangerous criminals. Could they survive? Fingers crossed! I don’t want to lose my favorite characters so early! 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!) come to town! 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.

It’s an unalloyed pleasure to spend time with Osman’s sparkling, well-observed characters who are also wittily perceptive about our foibles and the quirks of modern life.” THE SECOND NOVEL IN THE RECORD-BREAKING, MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING THURSDAY MURDER CLUB SERIES BY RICHARD OSMAN

Customer reviews

I adore the crime solving quartet of Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim. Each with their own strength and type of intelligence. Joyce, especially, warmed my heart. The story advances through all four POVs, plus Chris and Donna’s. This was such a fun read! I started Richard Osman’s The Man Who Died Twice right after finishing with The Thursday Murder Club which I truly enjoyed. The second book in the series does not disappoint. Many thanks to Penguin General UK via NetGalley for providing me with an advance copy in return for an unbiased and unedited review.

The Man Who Died Twice is the second book of the series and dare I say, I enjoyed it even more than the first, which I loved. It seems the more time I spend with these characters, the more invested I become. Osman’s novels are so much more than just brilliantly engineered mysteries… They’re also funny, warm, and big-hearted. He can’t possibly write them fast enough to suit me. These books are absolute gold.” It’s taken a mere two books for Richard Osman to vault into the upper leagues of crime writers… The Man Who Died Twice. . . dives right into joyous fun. Osman’s writing reminds me of Anthony Berkeley’s in its mixing of sparkling humor and resonant emotion. . . No wonder readers, myself included, have surrendered to [the Thursday Murder Club members’] abundant charms.” This time a ghost from Elizabeth’s past leaves her a letter. The man’s name who left the letter is Marcus Carmichael whose body slumped against a Thames Bridge at a low tide decades ago. Elizabeth helped to carry his body to a white van to be transported away. She even talked to his grieving widow! If the man hasn’t been resuscitated , somebody who knows the operation might be the one who wrote that letter!And, Elizabeth is distracted because she has just received a letter from a man from her MI5 days, who she believed to be dead, inviting her to share a bottle of wine with him….

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! Why do you need to see me while we're talking? Now I feel like I have to get dressed for a phone call. It's very stressful!!! Specifically, we have to look at the chances of your life expectancy exceeding the life expectancy of a medium dog.'Ibrahim, my heart just broke for him in this book. He's so intelligent and so fragile, and what happened to him was so unfair. But he's got his friends and I have no doubt that Joyce will have him up and around in no time. Ibrahim is the psychiatrist with photographic memory skills, introverted, scared of taking life changing decisions in his life. But now he feels more regrets about the choices he made.