Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

The Character Development Is Where It’s At

The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman

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Best for: Fans of the series – you should really read the first three before you read this one. In a nutshell: The best octogenarians out there are back to solve another crime – this one hitting closer to home. Worth quoting: N/A (Audio book) Why I chose it: I tore through the first three of these books and couldn’t wait to read what these folks are up to next. What it left me feeling: Content Review: Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim are back. Oh […]

OMG I love these old crime fighters

The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club #1) by Richard Osman

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So, this is another Audible book that my sister bought that I get to enjoy. Thankfully she bought all three, so I get to listen to them all! This is book one. The premise of this this book was totally new and refreshing to me. The closest parallel I can make is to the Netflix show “Only Murders in the Building.” It’s kind of a loose parallel though. Anyway, we get pulled in immediately as Elizabeth, an octogenarian asks her friend Joyce, a former nurse […]

Another Thursday Murder Club story that I loved

The Bullet that Missed (Thursday Murder Club #3) by Richard Osman

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OMG these amazing people again. Of course there’s a new murder to solve. The gang decides to look into the disappearance and presumed murder of a local journalist. Although the case is intriguing, Elizabeth thinks Joyce wants to investigate it to meet famous people. She’s only half wrong. They get to meet another local journalist who was very close with the missing woman. He was devastated when she went missing and has been looking for her ever since. There’s also a subplot where a baddie […]

More Thursday Murder Club!!

The Man Who Died Twice (Thursday Murder Club #2) by Richard Osman

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OK so this is literally the Thursday after the end of the first book. Like I said – I fell in love with these characters. I want to be in the Thursday Murder Club. I feel like I’d be a snack contributor though. These people have contacts and make connections that are really impressive! I could make really impressive snacks! We start out with Elizabeth getting a letter from her ex-husband, who is supposed to be dead. Sidebar – I love how in all of […]

The Craftiest of Pensioners

The Bullet that Missed by Richard Osman

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The Bullet That Missed is the 3rd in the series of the Thursday Murder Club Mysteries. I adore the characters and I can never get enough of them working through their difficult cases that often overlap other cases. This one starts as all the others do. The gang gets together to choose a cold case to hopefully solve when Elizabeth also receives word from a mysterious man telling her that she must kill a retired Russian agent who was once her lover or her best […]

#LifeGoals #RetirementGoals: The Novel

The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club #1) by Richard Osman

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Thursday Murder Club is a perfectly suitable novel for someone looking for a fast read that’s funny enough. I picked it up from the new paperback release display at a local bookshop on a lark. It’s a title that’s been read by a few people I know or mentioned in some “currently reading” or “recently read” or maybe even a “recommended read” list or conversation a few times. I had already read the synopsis and thought, Hm. Should maybe try that sometime. and just never really found myself […]



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