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The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman
2020 · 382 pages · Mystery
How it reads
The Thursday Murder Club is mystery (cozy mystery, specifically), and its dominant mood is cosy. Low stakes, warm company: the kind of book you read under a blanket. The pace is moderate — neither a page-turner nor a slow burn — so it holds up whether you read it in long sittings or short ones.
It's set in a small town setting, in the present day, told in the first person by several narrators. Its central concerns are friendship, justice and loss and grief. In weight it's light and escapist — easy to fall into.
It opens a series. The ending resolves happily. At 382 pages it's an ordinary novel's length. It's a mega-bestseller — the book everyone seems to have read.
Pick it up if…
- you're in the mood for something cosy
- you want an escape
- you want to be sure it ends well
Maybe not if…
- you need something dark, tense or eerie
All 15 dimensions
- Genre
- mystery
- Author gender
- male
- Author experience
- debut
- Setting: place
- small town
- Setting: time
- contemporary
- Mood / feeling
- cosy
- Pace
- moderate
- Tone / weight
- light and escapist
- Length
- medium
- Narrative style
- first person, several narrators
- Publication era
- recent
- Popularity
- mega-bestseller
- Series vs standalone
- first in a series
- Themes
- friendship, justice, loss and grief
- Ending style
- resolved and happy
What these mean: the 15 dimensions of a book.
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