The follow up to last years wildly successful Thursday Murder Club is bound to be just as popular - deservedly so.
It's easy to see why - you've got a great cast of characters, and in this second outing they are developed further and their bond cemented by events of the first book. But also you have a great plot that runs along at a fantastic pace, shot through with humour, but also with heart and poignancy (Ibrahim and Kendrick's relationship is a joy!). And while terrible things happen in general they happen to terrible people so largely the karmic balance is even (there are exceptions but I don't do spoilers!). And for all the outlandish murders and drug deals there's also heart - in all the characters relationships and interactions. And for all the drama and humour I have to give a massive shout out to Osmans portrayal of a new middle age romance - complete with all the new relationship worries and insecurities and it is refreshing to read that from a male character, and while it may be a minor plot in the book it remains a highlight for me because it's so grounded in reality.
An excellent fun read.

Delightful, charming with beautifully crafted characters sums up Osman's latest book. When a book contains a number of murders, a vicious and unwarranted attack on one of the main characters and continuous betrayal and deception between the protagonists, it is truly strange to be putting it down with a smile on your face.
And that is why I give this book 5 stars. It takes great skill to make light of such darkness ,but so endearing are the 4 elderly characters one finds oneself forgiving them everything. My fpersonal favourite is Joyce with her dotty self ramblings. They'll make you laugh out loud - but don't be misled, she's a seriously smart cookie!
What they shall get up to next is anyone's guess but I am sure myself and thousands of others will be out there buying the next in the series. I can safely predict there will be more cases for the Thursday Murder Club to solve.

I loved this follow up to the Thursday Murder Club. The first book was enjoyable and this is even better.
The established group of friends, residents of Cooper's Chase, are all very different but all have a good friendship and different characteristics. Ron has a great sense of humour, Elizabeth is clever and don't let old lady Joyce fool you.
This adventure involved MI5, the Mafia, stolen diamonds and a local drug dealer. All are brought together for a satisfying and surprising finale.
A great read, with laugh out loud moments.

If you have not read The Thursday Murder Club (#1), you should do so immediately. Because this second book in the series is about to come out and you need to be ready. I loved the first mystery so much that I actually screamed when I got this one. And with high expectations, you always worry. I should not have worried at all. I was in safe hands with the Thursday Murder Club.

Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim are back on the case. The friends live in a retirement community together and use their backgrounds and special skills to solve cold cases. Or new cases that are attached to them. (I don't want to give anything away about the plot as you should always go into a good mystery with a blank slate.) I loved the character development and storyline. I loved the predicaments that these seniors got into and how they cleverly got themselves out. I just inhaled this book will continue to be a Richard Osman fan.

This book is a little more violent than the first cozy mystery but it is also wittier and funnier. I love Joyce in particular's humor and cleverness. With some very interesting secondary characters, this is a very enjoyable and satisfying book.

This book, and series, are crowd pleasers and they are also REALLY GOOD. This combination is hard to find. I have given the first book to a variety of readers and so far no one has disliked it. Please do yourself a favor and read this series. I thought this second book was even better than the first.

Thank you (thank you!) so much to Netgalley for the advance readers copy and for making my weekend.

Wonderful! There are few authors who can make me laugh and cry on the same page, write a crime story that has so many twists and turns my head is dizzy, create and develop such a wide range of fascinating characters, and have me desperate for the third book in the series before the second is published.

The Thursday Murder Club was great fun but Richard Osman has honed his craft since then and this is so much better. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim, Chris, Donna and Bogdan join forces again to solve several murders and a theft. The mafia, MI5, drug lords and international criminal organisations are involved but The Thursday Murder Club gets the better of them all. Great stuff! My only question is when on earth does Richard Osman find the time to write?!

With thanks to Penguin/Viking and NetGalley for a review copy.

The Man Who Died Twice had a lot to live up to. The Thursday Murder Club was a national sensation, and with good reason. Osman has not disappointed in this sequel. It is funny, heart-warming, silly and sensitive throughout and fans of the first book have everything to look forward to.

Re-joining our cast of heroes from the first book was a sheer delight. It was just like meeting up with old friends, and their company was so easy to slip back into. The plot unravels to be dramatic and hardly credible, but let's be honest, I was reading this book to be entertained, and entertained I was. The characters are perfectly themselves the whole way through and completely hold the story, regardless of how ridiculous it seems.

Personally, I'd love to be invited round for a cup of tea at Cooper's Chase, but I'll settle for waiting eagerly for book number three instead.

Having enjoyed the Thursday Murder Club so much, I grabbed The Man Who Died Twice with both hands.
Things have settled down in Coopers Chase for Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim, but not for long when Elizabeth receives an intriguing invitation from a new resident. Before long, the four are embroiled in an MI5 investigation, safehouse, dead-drops, left luggage lockers- the works.
Briefly side-tracked when Ibrahim is mugged, Elizabeth and her sidekick Joyce, with the assistance of detectives Chris and Donna, set about sorting it all out in a big joint operation.
Thoughts that the first half of this book was a little quiet were swept away by the rip-roaring, chaotic but beautifully planned -out second part. I laughed so much I woke the cat (who was sleeping in another room),and had to take a break from reading it until composure was regained. I still laugh as I remember it. The dialogue is wonderful. Even if Joyce is a bit over the top, it is so funny to imagine the Mafia man’s face as these golden oldies come to collect him at the airport in a Toyota Avensis.
Rights are wronged, love is in the air and good prevails for the time being- hopefully not for too long.

Once again we are back with the characters of the Thursday Murder Club and what a joy that is! Second time around they feel like old friends and the story progresses at the same cracking rate as in the first book.
Saying too much will only spoil the enjoyment you'll have from this book, so I'll simply say one thing - read it ASAP!

Oh my! I was so excited to see this advanced copy of the second instalment of the Thursday Murder club. #TheManWhoDiedTwice was a fabulous book. I thoroughly enjoyed it and was sad when it ended. It was cleverly written from differing points of view. This time I knew the characters well, and it was no trouble to jump from POV to POV. I am not sure who I adore more between Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron & Ibrahim then there are the fabulous secondary characters in Stephen, Bogdan, Chris & Donna!

The stories themselves were great. I was kept guessing until the very end as to what had happened. Always the sign of a good book! I do hope the next instalment comes soon.

Huge thank you to #NetGalley for giving me an advanced copy of
#TheManWhoDiedTwice from #PenguinUKBooks #VikingBooksUK

It’s an absolute joy to be back with this merry band of characters, but as much a joy to be carried by Osman’s writing tone. His wry wit and quick observations made me stop and smile so many times. A terrific read -I’m looking forward to the next one already.

Another entertaining outing with the crime solving pensioners. A figure from Elizabeth′s mysterious past makes contact, and suddenly they′re hip deep in spies, drug dealers and mobsters.

Because of Elizabeth′s not so secret history of being something in the intelligence services, this book immediately starts off with a callback to a scene lifted from a John le Carré novel. However we are soon back in the Coopers Chase retirement community, discussing whether it is wise to get a dog when you are already old. This sums up the appeal of this series of books, it juxtaposes a fantastical crime scenario with the prosaic facts of ageing.

As in the first book there are several crimes going on in tandem, a mugging, drug dealing, as well as a couple of murders. The central four protagonists are joined by Bogdan, the ultimate Polish handyman, and the detectives from before, to not only resolve the crimes but see that justice is dealt out – sometimes in a rather vigilante approach. It′s enjoyable to see how they go about this, but also a pleasure to see how the relationships in the book are described. There are insights into people′s characters, sometimes conveyed in a witty throwaway line, which may not make you laugh out loud, but will probably induce a subdued snort. There is more than one candidate for the ′man who died twice′, and the final reference takes us back to a reality that exists outside fiction.

If you enjoyed the first book, I believe you will welcome this one.

I had a copy of this book early through Netgalley

This is the first book I have read by Richard Osman and was pleasantly surprised. He has a style of writing distinctly his own which is easy to read and enjoyable. His characters were easy to relate to and the storyline kept your interest til the end.
The book involves a group of mature people with interesting backgrounds still getting involved in things they probably shouldn’t. In real life, they would not be able to interact like this, but in a book, anything is possible!

Considering murder is a serious business this is quite a light hearted read. I thought the narrative was very much in the style of Kitty….Patricia Routledge’s character in Victoria Woods comedy As seen on TV. I Liked the characters but you could tell that Richard Osman hasn’t reached his sixties yet!

My most anticipated sequel of 2021 and it did not disappoint.

We are back a week after the last book and a new mystery has come to the attention of the gang, Elizabeth has received a letter from a man who's death she investigated decades before. Except she knows that this is not the case, the letter is actually from an old colleague and the Thursday Murder Club must come together to get to the bottom of the disappearance of twenty million pounds worth of diamonds whilst trying to keep themselves (and others) safe from violent mobsters.

These books just get better and better and it is such a delight to be back with the gang and I cannot wait for the next installment.

It's such fun to be back with the four elderly residents of Coopers Chase Retirement Village who make up the Thursday Murder Club. They might be septuagenarians but together their skills make them a force to be reckoned with. Ex MI5 spy Elizabeth, still sharp as a tack with a bank vault of a memory, ex nurse Joyce, who is a lot smarter than she seems with her friendly demeanour, never-ending chatter and badly knitted friendship bracelets, ex union boss Ron, street smart with a lot of useful contacts and psychiatrist Ibrahim, brilliant with a photographic memory but reserved and fragile.

Originally established to investigate unsolved cases, the Murder Club previously found themselves investigating a real murder carried out on their turf, along with young PC Donna de Freitas and her boss DCI Chris Hudson. Now the excitement at solving that murder has died down they're back to investigating unsolved cases in the Jigsaw Room. That is until Elizabeth receives a letter from someone she knows died a long time ago, and suddenly the Thursday Murder Club finds itself back in action dealing with MI5 agents, twenty million pounds worth of missing diamonds, dead bodies, a violent money launderer and a powerful local drug baroness. Donna and Chris are soon back on the scene, staking out the drug baroness as well as giving the group some help in their quest to find the diamonds. It was also good to see Bogdan, the very resourceful Polish builder back in the thick of the action.

I think this book is even better than the first in the series! Perhaps because we know the characters so well already. But also, because we get to know them even better here as their friendships deepen and we learn more of their personalities and lives and especially the way they care for each other. As before the plot is written with charm and wit and a genuine warmth for the characters, from Elizabeth’s masterminding to Joyce’s diary recounting their adventures (and other minutiae of her life). Make sure you add this intelligent, fun, not so cosy mystery to your reading list.

Lightning strikes twice! Yes - it's as funny and entertaining as the first book. We find out more about Elisabeth's past in this completely satisfying crime caper.

The fearsome foursome are hot on the heels of another killer in this sequel to The Thursday Murder Club. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim are back to solve more murders and this time they outsmart MI5. This book does not disappoint and it is wonderful to catch up with the gang in Cooper's Chase who are not to be underestimated. This sequel does not disappoint and I can't wait for the next installment, I hope we won't have to wait too long. For anyone who enjoyed the first book, I think they will be equally as entertained with this one.

Back again with my fave group of old folks, I think this adventure was more fun then the last one! I loved all the characters particularly Joyce and her observations, she definitely provided some LOL moments. I'm already dying for book 3!

The Thursday Murder Club was a cracking murder mystery - a page turner, charming, funny and just a delight to read. But could Richard Osman pull it off again? Well if anything, The Man Who Died Twice is even better. It had the same wonderful characters and has a carefully crafted brain teaser bringing together multiple plotlines for its mystery. I cannot recommend this highly enough. Hopefully Osman will continue this series for a long time to come.

I loved this book and I’d even go so far in saying I found it much better than the 1st Thursday Murder Club which was thoroughly enjoyed, i found this plot much easier to follow and a lot less complicated than the first book and the very tongue in cheek banter and wit is wonderfully entertaining, I felt as if I knew the characters much better now, it was like reading about old friends, I love Elizabeth and Joyce and just loved everything about the story, highly recommend for a truly entertaining read. Thank you very much to the publisher and Netgalley for the privilege in reading this early proof.