Who's got time to think about murder when there's a wedding to plan?
It’s been a quiet year for the Thursday Murder Club. Joyce is busy with table plans and first dances. Elizabeth is grieving. Ron is dealing with family troubles, and Ibrahim is still providing therapy to his favourite criminal. But when Elizabeth meets a wedding guest who’s in trouble, kidnap and death are hot on their heels once more. A villain wants access to an uncrackable code, and will stop at nothing to get it.
Plunged back into action once more, can the gang solve the puzzle and a murder in time?
I think it's time to put the four octogenarians out to pasture. This fourth installment is lacking in the usual solving of a murder. All four except Ron are hardly in it. My first beef is with the side character I don't care for the most, Joyce's daughter Joanna. She, her wedding, and her husband's 2 friends are at the center of the story. Ron and his family problems are also front and center. Joyce, Ibrahim, and even Elizabeth are like the side characters. Sheesh, Mr. Osman, what happened? Why a gazillion characters and red herrings that fell flat at the end?
I have a suspicious feeling that the author is hoping for another Netflix movie featuring Ron played by Pierce Brosnan because all members of his family are featured prominently in this book. The grandson, who talks like an adult, solves the second code together with an ex con teenager. 🙄 The first code is solved by Elizabeth but the second baffled her, an ex MI6 agent. Huh??!! IMHO, the book reads like an AI generated garbage.
Not recommended.
