The Thursday Murder Club

The Thursday Murder Club is both charming and funny with very likeable characters. The characters are the best part of this book because of their quirkiness and wit. The plot is good, but a bit too complicated in the end for my liking.

The Thursday Murder Club is a group of elder individuals who all live in a retirement community. They enjoy trying to dissect and solve older crimes, and they are actually quite good at it. At the beginning of the story, a crime takes place that connects to their community, so they befriend a police detective and work their way into the investigation. The reader is left to wonder who will solve it first, the retirees or the detectives.

This book is an enjoyable read largely because of the characters. The members of the Thursday Murder Club are quirky and endearing, although frustrating for the police. The dialogue between the older characters and the police detectives is amusing. The reader can understand the detectives' annoyance with the elderly characters, yet cannot help laughing at the humor of it all.

The mystery plot starts out strong with a logical set of suspects. However, as it progresses, more suspects enter the mix, and it begins to get a bit too complicated. There are too many distracting suspects that end up not to be guilty. It muddies the waters too much. There could have been a much simpler solution that could have kept the book to a shorter page length. I found myself getting bored toward the end.

Overall, this was a fun read. I would recommend this book to readers who enjoy a complicated mystery with a large cast of entertaining characters.