It’s not often retirement village residents feature in an award-winning book of fiction, let alone as cold-case detectives.
The book The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, saw the English television presenter, producer, comedian, and writer crowned author of the year at the British Book Awards.
The Thursday Murder Club is about a group of residents in a retirement village, whose hobby is trying to solve cold-case crimes, until they find themselves caught up in a murder mystery of their own.
The novel went straight to number one in the UK book selling charts when it was released in September and has been in the top 10 fiction hardbacks ever since. It is now only the second adult hardback fiction novel, after The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown, to sell more than one million copies in the UK this century.
Two more instalments have been commissioned and Academy Award-winning director, screenwriter and producer Steven Spielberg has bought the film rights, with Osman acting as an executive producer.
Never underestimate the older generation.
