Also, by the end of this instalment, quite a few rather delightful pairings have formed. All the regulars appear and Ron's grandson Kendrick even makes a quick but important appearance.īy the final pages there's a significant body count that could have been higher had a certain money launderer got his way. And then adds a few more excellent twists just when you thought you had it all straight. Osman lays a few interesting trails for the reader and then drags some red herrings across them to keep everyone guessing right up to the reveal. Joyce dabbles in cryptocurrency Ron's new lady is called on to use her talents on a body in a freshly-dug grave Stephen's observational skills make a significant contribution a money-launderer chooses the wrong mug of tea Joyce tries her hand at writing crime fiction, though it seems she's better, in this instance, at solving real-life crime. Eventually, in the interests of gaining information, Ron shares a pleasant afternoon of snooker with a crook and a former KGB colonel.Įlizabeth and Stephen are abducted, treated civilly and released Ron endures a massage Elizabeth and Joyce attend the taping of a TV game show and Elizabeth does a bit of acting it becomes clear that Ibrahim's talent is definitely not cracking poetic code, although he's quite good at anagrams DC Donna De Freitas becomes a TV star.

Joyce enlists her daughter to look over the financials, giving the TMC a bit of direction for their investigation. It's after Ibrahim visits a prison to ask an inmate for help that the object of their interest, a woman jailed for the VAT fraud, is murdered. Elizabeth Best, though, is a little distracted by a series of vaguely threatening text messages.

It turns out that the pretext under which they invite Bethany's colleague, the very well-known journalist/newsreader Mike Waghorn to join them, is totally unnecessary: Mike is very forthcoming, happy to share any skerrick of information he has with these four elderly sleuths. This is the cold case that Joyce Meadowcroft has selected for Coopers Chase's Thursday Murder Club to next examine. Back in 2013, TV journalist Bethany Waites was about to crack wide open a massive case of VAT fraud when her car went off Shakespeare Cliff. The Bullet That Missed is the third book in the Thursday Murder Club series by British TV presenter, producer, director, and novelist, Richard Osman.

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