The 3 best books by Richard Osman

We usually find journalists, or other famous people with a fondness for humanistics (no, I am not referring to Belén Esteban precisely), who land in the literature about a black gender made mainstream. It will be because noir novels are a chronicle of our world. And so, who better then to chronicle our times than a journalist skilled in working with the essential questions to find the most profound answers?

But then someone like Richard Osman, a typical Englishman in his stridencies and eccentricities in the face of stereotypes that always sold us around 5 o'clock tea. Someone like him, a journalist dedicated to his task with the comic vision of someone who insists on looking into life with a laugh, could not venture into the criminal. So he started writing humorous novels. And not so bad ...

Mainly because humor is also needed to cope with what we have before us. But also to demonstrate that the paths already marked are not always appropriate or obligatory. So welcome to the world of Richard Osman, the reincarnation of himself. Tom sharpe to the glory of the most grotesque and fascinating British humor.

Top recommended novels by Richard Osman

Thursday's crime club

It is not always easy to read a humorous novel. Because people assume that a guy who reads a book is delving into brainy essays or gripped by the tension of the fictional plot of the day. So laughing while reading quickly invites you to think of some kind of psychopathy. It happened a lot with the aforementioned Tom sharpe, that genius of the absurd plots who in a great way evokes this Richard Osman novel.

Because again it is about ridiculing completely opposite genres such as police. And in that, in the grotesque made satire, these two English pens know well how to awaken the most liberating hilarity. Because in the most ridiculous scenes, literature can measure up to any other form of humor.

At a peaceful private retirement community, four unlikely friends meet once a week to review old unsolved local murder cases. They are Ron, a former socialist activist full of tattoos and revolution; sweet Joyce, a widow who is not as naive as she seems; Ibrahim, a former psychiatrist with an incredible capacity for analysis, and the tremendous and enigmatic Elizabeth, who, at 81 years old, leads the group of amateur researchers... or not so much.

When a local real estate developer is found dead with a mysterious photograph next to the body, The Thursday Crime Club is in the middle of its first real case. Although they are octogenarians, the four friends have a few tricks up their sleeve.

We already know that when grandparents, with the placid horizon of a retirement to indulge in obsessions, manias, filias and various phobias, they prepare to surrender to their last lost cause, the world can start to shake.

Thursday's crime club

The following thursday

The hangover from a great novel is what he has. It is irresistible to succumb to that claim of millions of delighted readers of having stumbled upon a novel that made people laugh, that once again raised nonsense to that honorary place that it should always have in our world. And that was the good old Richard Osman immediately ...

Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim, the four members of the Thursday Crime Club, are still celebrating solving their first murder case. With the hubbub of investigation already behind them, they prepare for a well-deserved season of rest and relaxation at Cooper's Chase, their posh retirement community.

But it seems that there will be no luck because a few days later an unexpected visitor will arrive: an old friend of Elizabeth's has made a dangerous mistake, is in serious trouble, and has come to her as a last resort. His story includes some stolen diamonds, a volatile and impatient mobster, and a very real threat to his life.

The following Thursday, Richard Osman

The mystery of the stray bullet

Geriatric suspense is all the rage thanks to Osman. The thing about the recovered grandparents for the cause of fast-paced actions is a recurring argument to a certain extent. Like a cyclical moment of glory to reconcile with those octogenarians who are our parents and who, with luck, will become us. This novel that closes the Thursday club series culminates as an excellent climax to a trilogy that has given good moments of glory between humor, the eccentric and good approaches to mystery.

It's just another Thursday. Except trouble is never far away if the Thursday Crime Club gang is in on it. A local news legend on the hunt for a juicy headline is visiting Coopers Chase and soon our quartet of octogenarians are on the trail of two unsolved murders. As if that were not enough, a new enemy will put Elizabeth between a rock and a hard place by entrusting her with a lethal mission: kill or be killed.

As Elizabeth grapples with her conscience (and a gun), the gang will do their best to solve the mystery in time. But can they catch the culprit and save Elizabeth before the killer strikes again?

The mystery of the stray bullet

Other recommended books by Richard Osman

The last to die

And there are four installments for the oldest sleuths of the police narrative. The point, to stretch such a singular proposal, is to confer on such singular characters true virtues as investigators that, after so many adventures of the characters themselves and the author's skill in moving them between humor and suspense, no one questions it anymore. Without knowing what the last novel in the series will be, let's enjoy in the meantime these always juicy and surprising plots to make old age action, nonsense and tension.

It's Christmas in the Cooper's Chase residential complex and everyone hopes to enjoy a few days of rest in good company. But if you're a member of the Thursday Crime Club, there's never a quiet moment. When they receive news that an old friend has been murdered while guarding a dangerous package, the quartet of amateur detectives set out to solve the mystery.

Their search takes them to an antique store, where they soon discover that the secrets hidden in this craft are as old as the objects themselves. As they encounter art forgers, drug dealers and con artists, Elisabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim don't know who they can trust. With the body count rapidly rising, time running out and danger close at their heels, have our intrepid investigators run out of luck? 

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