(Her prison cell has an espresso machine Connie has connections.) And, finally, the cold case that gets everything rolling: A TV journalist has been missing for decades and the Murder Club thinks they can get to the bottom of it. Meanwhile, Murder Club member Ibrahim trots off to prison to meet with Connie Johnson, the criminal mastermind the club nabbed in the last book. Murder Club founder Elizabeth (an unflappable retired spy) is kidnapped and threatened, warned that she must kill her old friend Viktor Illyich (a former KGB agent) or something terrible will happen - not to Elizabeth, but to someone close to her. But ultimately it won't matter the characters are so sharp, the writing so clever you'll be swept along even if you don't yet know all the players. His newest, "The Bullet That Missed," picks up where "The Man Who Died Twice" ends, and if you haven't read the other books you might be a bit lost at first. That's a high bar to set from the get-go, but Osman has easily achieved it in subsequent books. "The Thursday Murder Club," an international bestseller, was funny, original, baffling, poignant and thoroughly engaging. Richard Osman's engaging series about a group of crime-solving retirees has delighted readers since the first book. The Thursday Murder Club is back, and that should make everyone happy - except, of course, murderers.
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