The Thursday Murder Club · Book 5
The Impossible Fortune
- Published
- 30 September 2025
- Pages
- 408
- ISBN-13
- 9780241743980
- Type
- novel
About this book
At 408 pages, The Impossible Fortune is the longest entry in The Thursday Murder Club and appeared in 2025, continuing Richard Osman's roughly annual publication rhythm for the Kent pensioners' detective club.
Its place in The Thursday Murder Club
The Impossible Fortune is book 5 in the The Thursday Murder Club series. It follows The Last Devil to Die. See the full The Thursday Murder Club reading order.
Four residents of a Kent retirement village — a former spy, a retired psychiatrist, a one-time trade union firebrand, and a retired nurse — meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room under the pretext of reviewing cold case files, until real murders start landing in their laps and they turn out to be far better at solving them than the police. Richard Osman, best known as a British TV quiz-show host, built the series around the pleasure of being underestimated: Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim, and Ron are pensioners, and every…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780241743980