Still, it was worth the wait. The third volume in the series lives up to all my eager expectations. The plotting is as tight, the humour just as witty, the characters are all as lively and wonderful company as ever. I'm particularly fond of Elizabeth, with her mysterious dark past and her determination to keep her husband Stephen (slowly succumbing to dementia) with her for as long as she can. Flirtatious, shrewd Joyce is loads of fun too. Scholarly Ibrahim and ex-union leader Ron took more of a back seat in this novel -- I've started hearing Ron's voice as that of Alistair Campbell from The Rest Is Politics podcast, I'm not sure how either of them would feel about that!
As the kids say, no notes! I could honestly read twenty volumes of The Thursday Murder Club with total joy, but alas, apparently there is only one more volume to come. I will mourn them all and if there isn't a happy ending I will be extremely cross. If anyone dies, I will be very cross indeed.
What!!!!???? No more in the series? I'm gutted. I loved Elizabeth too, and feel she would be a great character - as a younger woman - for a series of espionage novels.
ReplyDeleteAnd do I see a new book is coming out soon? Bravo! Wonderful! I look forward to reading it SOON.
ReplyDeleteOoh, maybe that will be Osman's next project! We can live in hope... Young Elizabeth would be a joy to read, and whatever peril she was in, we'd know that she'd survive :)
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