The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)

by Richard Osman

I try to be honest where I can, so I hope you don’t mind me saying I don’t like him. He’s all the things that can go wrong with men if you leave them to their own devices.

Many years ago, everybody here would wake early because there was much to do and only so many hours in the day. Now they wake early because there is much to do and only so many days left.

“Some people love their children more than they love their partner,” says Ibrahim, “and some people love their partner more than their children. And no one can ever admit to either thing.”