You'll enjoy these titles because: With the movie based on the book wrapping up production and due out soon via Netflix, interest with the Thursday Murder Club remains strong. Wry humor, feisty elderly sleuths, and fun cozy-adjacent mysteries and thrillers are the ingredients of some wonderful reads. alh 9/2024
Twenty-five-year-old Kat Bennett has never felt at home anywhere, and especially not in crumbling Shelley House. She's prickly and unapproachable, but beneath her tough exterior, Kat is plagued by guilt from her past.…
It is 1951, and fifteen-year-old Edie Green is lonely. Living with her eccentric mother and her mother's new boyfriend, Edie is desperate for something to shake her from her dull, isolated life. So when the popular, pretty Lucy Theddle…
Learning that an old adversary may have escaped Germany with a fortune in stolen Nazi gold, retired Memphis cop Buck Schatz teams up with his plugged-in, smart-alecky grandson in a vigilante investigation to hunt down the fugitive and…
It's a hot and sticky Sunday in Lafayette, Louisiana, and Glory has settled into her usual after-church routine, meeting gamblers at the local coffee shop, where she works as a small-time bookie. Sitting at her corner table, Glory hears…
Judith is a seventy-seven-year-old whiskey drinking, crossword puzzle author living her best life in a dilapidated mansion on the outskirts of Marlow, an English town where nothing much ever happens. That is, until Judith hears her…
Vera Wong is a lonely lady of a certain age who lives above her once thriving, now forgotten tea shop in the middle of San Francisco's Chinatown. She likes nothing more than a good cup of Wulong and extensive, loving detective work on the…
When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway’s latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others. After working with the bestselling crime writer for years, she’s intimately…
Grace, Meg and Daphne, all in their seventies, are minding their own business while enjoying a cup of tea in a cafe, when seventeen-year-old Nina stumbles in. She's clearly distraught and running from someone, so the three women think…
Billie, Mary Alice, Helen, and Natalie have worked for the Museum, an elite network of assassins, for forty years. Now their talents are considered old-school and no one appreciates what they have to offer in an age that relies more on…
Clementine Lakefield leads a simple life in her retirement community in Sun City, South Carolina. But behind her carefree facade, she is hiding a lifetime of secrets. When Clemmie goes next door to check on her difficult and unlikeable…
For fans of unexpected-yet-badass female sleuths, meet former FBI agent-turned-boardinghouse landlady Ethel Fiona Crestwater. Her age affords her precious invisibility. She can outthink and outshoot those who are half her age. When someone…
This cleverly plotted high stakes thriller is set in motion by botched attack on two law clerks leaving one dead and the other in a coma. The ensuing cover up leaves a string of bodies and too many players at cross-purposes. It also leaves…
Maud is an irascible 88-year-old Swedish woman with no family, no friends, and no qualms about a little murder. Ever since her darling father's untimely death, Maud has lived in the family's spacious apartment in downtown Gothenburg,…
On her sixtieth birthday, Auntie Poldi retires to Sicily, intending to while away the rest of her days with good wine, a view of the sea, and few visitors. But Sicily isn't quite the tranquil island she thought it would be, and something…
It has been an eventful morning for Agnes Sharp and the other inhabitants of Sunset Hall, a communal home for the old and unruly in the sleepy English countryside. Although they have had their share of issues (misplaced reading glasses,…
Carla Karolak is doing just fine. Having escaped the clutches of her controlling mother and founded a successful writing retreat in which participants are confined to windowless cells until they hit their daily word count, she lives a…
Every Thursday, three retired school teachers meet at the Thirsk Garden Centre café. But one fateful week, as they are catching up with a slice of cake, they bump into their ex-colleague, Topsy. The following week, Topsy’s dead. The last…
Mrs. Loretta Plansky, a recent widow in her seventies, is settling into retirement in Florida while dealing with her 98-year-old father and fielding requests for money from her beloved children and grandchildren. One night Mrs. Plansky is…
Sixty-something former nun Rose has her limits, and her gruff sister-in-law Peg Turnbull sure knows how to push them. But after forty years of bickering, they’re attempting to start over, partnering up to join the local bridge club. Peg…
Florrie Butterfield-eighty-seven, one-legged, and of cheerful disposition-believes there can't be any more adventures or surprises in life to experience. Yet one midsummer’s evening, there’s an accident at Babbington Hall-the adult…
