Additionally, we have young people who are looking for a place in the world and I enjoyed how Viktor counsels the young man on the phone, or how the elderlies take the Viking and his social awkwardness and make him feel at home. No matter where we are in the world, it is the strangers that turn into friends and friends who become the mirrors of our selves.Īnd this is emphasized as Viktor comes to love the gang and thinks of joining them or how Pauline and Ron find each other’s company leading to new experiences or Donna and Bogdan starting a new journey, even Ibrahim’s sessions with Connie.

As the author has shown us in the previous books, it is the people in our lives who make it our life – friends, family and companions. But the more interesting bits are how new relationships are developing between Donna and Bogdan or Ron and Pauline. But also adds a few new ones like Viktor and the Viking. The book brings all the members of the club back – Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim. He happily joins the Club in their investigation and eventually even the Viking becomes an informal member of the club.Īnd so all these people come together and try and find what happened to Bethany Waites. So, Elizabeth fakes Viktor’s assassination and he moves into the guest room at Joyce’s. If Elizabeth wouldn’t kill Viktor, then the Viking will kill Elizabeth’s friends. He tasks Elizabeth with assasination of an ex-KGB agent Viktor Illyich, nicknamed the Bullet.

Meanwhile, Elizabeth and her husband are kidnapped by a giant – the gang amicably names him the Viking. A few days later, Heather is found dead in her jail cell. So now, the club takes the case in hand, as Ron approaches Jack Mason, while Ibrahim meets Connie Johnson – who is in prison for drug dealing – and asks her to approach Heather. The police never found the murdered of Bethany. Her boss Jack Mason was never trialled and continues living a privileged life. The fraud case was trialled and a woman called Heather Garbutt has been jailed as the primary guilty person. We learn about how Bethany was chasing a VAT fraud and disappeared on one night, how her car was found with traces of her blood but no body off the cliffs and in the sea. Bethany Waites was a TV journalist and co-host on South East news and the club are using this opportunity to interview her co-host and friend Mike Waghorn.

Actually, it is a ruse arranged by The Thursday Murder Club, in connection with the current murder they are investigating – that of Bethany Waites. Ron is appearing on a TV show, in a story, about retirement villages. The little, cunning animal is still here – almost a signature element now on the cover pages of this series. The cover page of this book continues the minimalistic theme with a beige background outline in green and the title and author’s name in the colors Red, black and green. The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman Book Cover

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