The Man Who Died Twice by Richard OsmanMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
Four and a half well-earned stars.
Welcome back to the exclusive retirement village in Kent, home to the Thursday Murder Club where our four intrepid retirees are champing at the bit to solve another mystery.
Elizabeth (ex-MI5) receives a mysterious letter from a dead man which draws her back into the shadowy world of espionage, £20 million of stolen diamonds, the mafia, a black market 'fixer', drug dealers, and a rather distressing number of grisly murders for such a beautiful part of the English countryside.
The trick to a good detective story (in my opinion) is to keep the reader guessing the identity of the murderer for as long as possible, but not make the clues so convoluted and obscure that the reader can't recognise them in retrospect. Richard Osman does such a great job of this and I liked this probably even more than the first book. Roll on the next ...
I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via NetGalley in return for an honest review.
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