H4 P3 W1 introduction Thursday murder club

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Get out your laptop

Put away your phone

Put your bag on the floor

today's plan

You will know what to expect from the second book.

 literature

Look at the cover

What do you think the book will be about?

What is a detective novel? Give a definition in one or two sentences.

All detective novels contain a crime.
What other elements do you find
in most detective novels?

Do you like detective novels?

Yes

they are okay

no

 #3 the Thursday Murder Club

In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders. But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves. Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it’s too late?

 #3 the Thursday Murder Club - review

The Thursday Murder Club really is a gentle, entertaining and cosy read, the perfect ‘curl-up-by-the-fire’ on a cold Winter’s evening book. Much of the crime fiction that is currently on the market is fast-paced, heart-pounding and, ofttimes, quite gruesome. You will not find this here in Richard Osman’s first outing. The Thursday Murder Club is a real pleasure to read. It provides much-needed light reading during these very strange days. It is a return to the Agatha Christie style of crime fiction that will be very welcome on the bedside locker of many a reader.

Questions: true or false?

1. The third book in the series has just been published.
2. The Thursday Murder Club is set in Essex.
3. The stories are about 3 elderly amateur sleuths. 
4. They were inspired by real life events and characters in Brenda's retirement village.
5. Richard is not Brenda's favourite author, but C.J. Sansom is. 

The third book in the series has just been published.

1. True
2. False

The Thursday Murder Club is set in Essex.

1. True
2. False

The stories are about 3 elderly amateur sleuths.

1. True
2. False

They are loosely based on real life events and characters in Brenda's retirement village.

1. True
2. False

According to Brenda, Richard is not the best author, Hilary Mantel is.

1. True
2. False