Book Reviews – The Bullet That Missed

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The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman

This is the third in the Thursday Murder Club mysteries and it doesn’t disappoint. Our gang of Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim are determined to solve a decade-old cold case involving a local TV personality, but without a body, it’s proving harder than they thought. Meanwhile, Elizabeth and her husband are kidnapped and she is given the ultimatum to kill an old foe or Joyce will be killed. Detective Chief Inspector Chris Hudson and PC Donna De Freitas once again get pulled into the Murder Club shenanigans and there are some lovely moments between Elizabeth, her husband and Bogdan the ‘fix it’ guy. Osman gives us such witty and warm characters and he has found a magical formula. I was recently on holiday in the Pacific and I saw a young (late thirties!) man reading this book and he was loving it as much as I did – I hope you do, too!