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.
Key facts about The Impossible Fortune
Richard Osman wrote The Impossible Fortune, a novel on our list. It has been out since 30 September 2025. The book has 408 pages.
We list 1 edition of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780241743980 to find the main one.
The Impossible Fortune is book 5 of 5 in The Thursday Murder Club series. The series has 5 published books. However, the series starts with The Thursday Murder Club (2020). It is also the latest book in the series with a full release date.
Additionally, Richard Osman writes We Solve Murders as a separate series. Those series sit on our cozy mystery shelf. It is also the latest published Richard Osman book on file.
About Richard Osman
Richard Osman spent decades as a British television producer and on-screen presenter, co-creating and hosting the long-running quiz show Pointless, before reinventing himself as a novelist in his fifties. See every Richard Osman book in order.
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