The Man Who Died Twice: (The Thursday Murder Club 2)

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The diamonds belong to the New York Mafia, they, and Lomax, whose reputation and life is at stake, are going to do whatever they need to do to ensure they get the diamonds back.

This series has much more depth than is perhaps suggested from the synopsis and has occasionally found itself labeled as a cozy- (I think I even categorized the first book as such) Though this book does meet the ‘cozy’ criteria of ‘no graphic violence’, the mystery and the dialogue are whip smart, with an equal balance of intelligence to match the humor and the occasionally seriousness. Bogdan, a Polish man of many useful talents, helps around Cooper's Chase and in this one, is particularly helpful to Elizabeth. I've always enjoyed the dual points of view in this series, which alternate between third person omniscient and first person in the form of Joyce's journal. The Man Who Died Twice focuses on the theme of age, with Osman saying that he did not want to patronise the elderly.I started Richard Osman’s The Man Who Died Twice right after finishing with The Thursday Murder Club which I truly enjoyed.

If he’d been walking with Ibrahim, he’d have straightened out the hooligans on the spot, and they would have stayed straightened out. Another special friend of the club, is the calm and mysterious Bogdan, someone who always has the means to get something unusual done. It’s cosy, so he lives to fight another day with the Thursday Murder Club but he goes through it and it was kinda heartbreaking!Joyce, the diarist, is a former nurse, who seems a gentle, naïve soul, but there’s almost no blood and gore that she hasn’t seen before. The man’s name who left the letter is Marcus Carmichael whose body slumped against a Thames Bridge at a low tide decades ago. Elizabeth: once upon a time a spy, having vivid past, involving into international operations and she didn’t share most of it with her friends now taking care of her husband Stephen who is suffering from dementia. I honestly thought I couldn't like them any more than I did, but then Osman decided to prove me wrong. If you haven’t read the first book, let me give you a quick summary: four septuagenarians with different occupations, characteristics and far different pasts come together to solve the cold cases.

The very short non-spoilery gist is that Elizabeth's slimy secret agent ex-husband shows up and wants her help. These characters are so compelling and wholesome while also being the type of morally grey that only truly intelligent people are. My favorite septuagenarian sleuths are back, and I was finally able to see what Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim have been up to since the murder and comical mayhem of The Thursday Murder Club. All these events and the people associated with them get woven into a tangled and sometimes very helpful mess. I’m spacing them out a little, because I have so many other books to read and because I feel like a lot of series’ get a bit repetitive when you read them too close together.They all live in the Cooper’s Chase retirement community and have formed this special friendship where they value each other as close friends and part of their crime club. Richard Osman skilfully weaves each strand of the plot together, drawing every single character into the main arena so you’re never quite sure what to expect next. This proves to be an highly entertaining, fun, and engaging sequel, so definitely and deliciously moreish that I have no doubt that this will do as well, if not better than the first book for Osman. Ibrahim suffers a brutal mugging, but these friendships grow because of it, especially with Ron and his young grandson who comes to visit. When Elizabeth’s ex-husband, who is still an MI5 operative, approaches her about money-laundering and a diamond theft, the Club becomes embroiled in a complex and deadly, but highly entertaining, adventure.

Or when my kids get all upset and ask me why I sent them the sarcastic smiley face emoji when all I was trying to do was send a smiley face because forfuckssake how can you tell the difference between smiley face emojis they all look the same! With a perfect mix of interesting characters, mystery , intrigue and humor The Man Who Died Twice is an engaging novel. TTMC establishes the unique friendships between the characters as well as highlights what makes each character special. Her genre voicing and voice inflections deliver the right amount of drama and humor to the listener.It was fun to reunite with the members of “The Thursday Murder Club” from book one of the series, (as well as many of the other supporting characters) and I strongly recommend that you get acquainted with them by reading or listening to the first in the series-to better appreciate the growth of the relationships in this installment. Ron and Ibrahim, DCI Chris and Donna, lovable Bogdan … all of them had new layers of their personalities and skills revealed, which made me feel more invested in them and their story.