The Last Devil To Die: The Thursday Murder Club 4

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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. My mom lives in a retirement community and honestly, it just reminds me of a university campus, but where no one has to do any essays so they can get up and pretty much do what they want all the time. Delivers the same kind of clever dialogue, colorful characters and corkscrew plotting that made the other books so much fun… As you reach the last chapters of this book, you’ll think you’ve figured out the mystery. Their humor and lighthearted banter carry the novel through the deadly investigation to its satisfying conclusion.

The Last Devil to Die offers more than the tightly plotted mystery that readers have come to expect from Osman’s work. A clever, funny mystery peopled with captivating characters that enhance the story at every quirky turn. Gaines’s The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, Helena Maria Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus, and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. Elizabeth, who usually spearheads the pensioners’ investigations, takes a step back in this novel to spend time with her husband, Stephen, while they grapple with his progressing dementia.au/product/the-last-devil-to-die-the-thursday-murder-club-book-4-by-richard-osman/p/283591" on this server. Suffice it to say, Elizabeth is not herself so Joyce steps up to take the lead in the new investigation.

BookPage is a recommendation guide for readers, highlighting the best new books across all genres as chosen by our editors. I had prepared myself for a bittersweet task: to speak with Osman about the Thursday Murder Club, my favorite book series, on the eve of the publication of The Last Devil to Die, which I believe to be the final book. Kuldesh’s murder kickstarts an Elmore Leonard-esque caper plot in which various ­interested ­parties compete to get their hands on a consignment of heroin that had been in his care, resulting in a string of violent deaths alternating with comic set-pieces.Like when policeman Chris pokes around on his own, trying to get into the headquarters of one of the suspects, and thinks back to the olden days of policing. Rather than focusing on the life and death stakes of a murder investigation, Elizabeth and Stephen’s story is a meditation on love and grief. The mysteries are complex, the characters vivid, and the whole thing is laced with warm humor and—remarkably, considering the body count—good feeling. Bob Whittaker, aka Computer Bob, doesn’t seem fazed by his new friends’ dangerous interests—a sure sign he’ll fit right in with the brave, meddlesome Thursday Murder Club. A new mystery is afoot in the fourth book in the Thursday Murder Club series from million-copy bestselling author Richard Osman.

But quite a bit of the story also deals with Stephen, Elizabeth's husband, whose dementia has continued to progress.The gang quickly launches an investigation, headquartered at their Coopers Chase Retirement Village. This book does fall down a bit when it comes to the plot: Osman has proved a decent enough plotter in the past, but I suspect a couple of major reveals here will have been foreseen by most readers a few hundred pages in advance. In The Last Devil to Die , Elizabeth’s beloved husband Stephen is slipping away from her with fewer and fewer good days.

Osman’s plots play fair with the reader, carefully placing “red herrings” to fool the reader into picking the wrong possible murder suspect—a gambit that has improved with each successive book. The third book in the NYT bestselling Expanse series, Abaddon's Gate opens the door to the ruins of an alien gate network, and the crew of the Rocinante may hold the key to unlocking its secrets. As they encounter drug dealers, art forgers, and online fraudsters—as well as heartache close to home—Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim have no idea whom to trust. At school and towards the end of your life, suddenly you’re thrown in with people again,” he says, noting that the book’s core group includes two middle class characters and two that are working class. Proudly introducing the Well-Read Black Girl Library Series, On Girlhood is a lovingly curated anthology celebrating short fiction from such luminaries as Rita Dove, Alice Walker, Toni Morrison, and more.Osman’s greatest strength is fusing the puzzle-mastery of Christie and her Golden Age peers with emotional earnestness and wry humor.