The Impossible Fortune

, #5

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Hardcover, 368 pages

Published by Pamela Dorman Books.

ISBN:
978-0-593-65325-8
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It’s been a quiet year for the Thursday Murder Club. Joyce is busy with table plans and first dances. Elizabeth is grieving. Ron is dealing with family troubles, and Ibrahim is still providing therapy to his favourite criminal.

But when Elizabeth meets a wedding guest who’s in trouble, kidnap and death are hot on their heels once more. A villain wants access to an uncrackable code, and will stop at nothing to get it. Plunged back into action once more, can the gang solve the puzzle and a murder in time?

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reviewed The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman (Thursday Murder Club, #5)

Doesn't disappoint!

This was such a riot all the way through. I love how much Osman loves his characters, and how much they love one another. There's a narrative slight of hand I like but didn't love, but still so so great to be back with these characters.

reviewed The Impossible Fortune by Richard Osman (Thursday Murder Club, #5)

Scale was off

A bit of a return to form for this series for me, after how much I enjoyed the previous.

I thought the general scale of this book was off a bit - I didn't really like the core mystery, it felt way more amateurish than the other adventures.

Bright spots again were the characters opening up and developing more organically now that we know them a bit more. Seeing Elizabeth deal with her continuing grief, and learning more about Ibrahim were also compelling threads.

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