I wasn’t sure about the first book in this series, but they are really growing on me, and are now as welcome as a lovely hot bath or a perfect cup of tea!
I don’t know if Richard Osman’s writing is improving, or just my appreciation of it, but I think this is his best book yet.
Elizabeth’s husband Stephen is slipping further into dementia, and when a good friend of his is killed after getting mixed up with drug smuggling gang, the retirement home murder club friends decide they need to investigate.
There is also an interesting side story when a new resident at the home is taken in by a romance fraud scam.
Now that we know the returning protagonists a bit, Osman delves deeper into their characters with some poignant back story details which mean more to us now than they would if we been told in the first book. This book is very sad, with lots of musings about life and death and memory and grief and I did shed several tears while listening. Also, I worked out some but not all of the clues, which is just about right, because I get to feel clever without spoiling all the twists.
Can’t wait for the next one!
Sarah Wray Writer 