by Richard Osman

My review: 5 stars

Get ready for a laugh fest with a group of four octogenarians who refuse to bow to old age. Osman takes an (often) invisible demographic and breathes life into them like a helium salesman at a birthday party.

With Joyce off on every tangent the human brain could possibly imagine, Elizabeth checking to make sure her tank license from her days as a British spy is still valid, and Ibrahim checking his stodginess in the mirror, that leaves Ron to reminisce about the days when he cratered any chance for the union guys to snag a fair deal.

Laugh-out-loud is putting it mildly. Osman takes the smallest bits of everyday life and injects comic TNT into them. I was constantly wondering – Why didn’t I think of that?

If you haven’t read The Thursday Murder Club yet, then lucky you. If you have, well, you know what I’m talking about.

~Jeff Buick