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    Looking for a mystery this fall? These whodunits will charm.

    by Yvonne Zipp Sep 08, 2023 4 minutes

    Ever since four friends grabbed a Great Dane and a box of Scooby Snacks, and took off in a green van, part of the fun of mysteries has been solving them together.

    No one says “Jinkies!” or wears an ascot, but the Thursday Murder Club did adopt a dog named Alan. The club of retirees – “a former nurse, a former spy, a former trades union official and an occasionally still-practising psychiatrist” – has totally charmed readers over four books now. When an officer scoffs that real policing is not like Netflix, Elizabeth, the former spy, replies, “Oh, I’ve lived a life that would make Netflix blush.”

    In “,” Richard Osman’s fourth in the “Thursday Murder Club” series, it is just after Christmas.

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