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The Thursday Murder Club

You'll enjoy these titles because: The titles are mysteries with quirky characters and fun plots.

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  • Auntie Poldi’s plans to retire in Sicily and live the good life are disrupted by the disappearance of her handsome young handyman. Soon she finds herself embroiled in an investigation. The first in a series.
    Book, 2018Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018. — FICTION Gio
  • Maud is 88 years old and determined to stay in her apartment until she dies, even if she has to commit murder. Darkly humorous and quirky.
    Book, 2018New York, NY : Soho Crime, 2018. — FICTION Tur
  • Suspense novelist and single mom Finlay Donovan is struggling to make ends meet. When her conversation about her new book is overheard, she is offered a job disposing of an unwanted husband. The situation becomes complicated, and it’s not long…
    Book, 2021New York : Minotaur Books, 2021. — FICTION Cos
  • Billie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie are retiring after 40 years of working as assassins. As they celebrate their newfound freedom on a cruise, someone tries to kill them, causing them to use all of their skills to uncover the killer and survive.…
    Book, 2022New York : Berkley, [2022] — FICTION Ray
  • Fed up with their nursing home’s corner-cutting and rules, Martha Andersson and her friends turn to crime to improve their lives and attain more independence. Readers will find themselves cheering the gang on in this fun first book of the series.
    Book, 2016New York : HarperCollins, 2016. — FICTION Ing
  • Judith Potts lives alone, happily and undisturbed, until the evening she witnesses a murder while out swimming in the river. The police don’t believe her story so she decides to investigate on her own with a little help from the vicar’s wife and the…
    Book, 2022Naperville, Illinois : Poisoned Pen Press, [2022] — FICTION Tho
  • Seventy-five-year-old Ethel Crestwater is unassuming and mostly overlooked. However, her cousin Jesse soon discovers that there is more to her than meets the eye when one of Ethel’s boarders is murdered, Jesse is assaulted, and a bag full of money…
    Book, 2022Naperville, Illinois : Poisoned Pen Press, [2022] — FICTION DeC
  • Liz, Thelma, and Pat are retired schoolteachers leading quiet lives until an ex-colleague is murdered just after they met with her. Knowing that her death wasn’t accidental leads them to investigate and uncover the truth. Check out this title…
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  • Maggie Bird had retired from the spy business--until a dead body turns up at her house and someone shoots at her. Turning to her ex-colleagues, Maggie must solve who is trying to kill her and how it relates to the case that caused her to retire…
    Book, 2023Seattle : Thomas & Mercer, [2023] — FICTION Ger
  • Agnes Sharp and her friends who live in Sunset Hall are determined to find the killer of their neighbor so they can cover up the death of someone else. Quirky and amusing.
    Book, 2023New York, NY : Soho Crime, 2023. — FICTION Swa
  • When Vera starts to open her tea shop one morning, she finds a dead body. While waiting for the police, she grabs the flash drive from the body, figuring that the culprit is bound to come into the shop looking for it. Warm, funny, and with plenty of…
    Book, 2023New York : Berkley, 2023. — FICTION Sut
  • Steve Wheeler is retired and happy about it until his daughter-in-law, who is providing security for a famous author, runs into a major problem and calls on Steve as the only one she can trust. Fast-paced action and a trio of fun characters will…
    Book, 2024[New York] : Pamela Dorman Books, Viking, 2024. — FICTION Osm