![]() Take-charge Elizabeth’s classified past is especially crucial this time, as is her superior understanding of the need to take precautions. 28), in which the crime enthusiasts at idyllic Coopers Chase Retirement Village in Kent find themselves embroiled in a couple of fresh murders and a frantic search for missing diamonds. Now comes the sequel, The Man Who Died Twice (Pamela Dorman/Viking, Sept. bestseller lists since it was published, has found an eager audience in the U.S., too. Osman, host of BBC’s Pointless, was recently named Author of the Year at the British Book Awards, and the novel, which has remained in the top 10 on U.K. crime debut of all time, hitting the million-sales mark in March. The Thursday Murder Club swiftly became the fastest selling U.K. Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club, about a wily group of elderly amateur sleuths, was published in September 2020, the perfect moment to tap into the collective need for a distracting puzzle, clever humor, and familiar settings (never underestimate the appeal of a quaint English village that harbors a murderer or two). Happily, despite the fact that the elderly are dismissed in much of modern pop and literary culture, 70-something is the new black. When British comedian, TV host, and producer Richard Osman decided to write a book, he didn’t ask an agent or editor if focusing on retirement-home residents was a good idea. ![]()
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