The Last Devil to Die (Thursday Murder Club, #4)

by Richard Osman

‘Grief doesn’t need an answer, any more than love does,’ says Elizabeth. ‘It isn’t a question.’

You’d think that the closer you get to death, the more it would matter, but I’m finding the opposite to be true.

That’s the thing about Coopers Chase. You’d imagine it was quiet and sedate, like a village pond on a summer’s day. But in truth it never stops moving, it’s always in motion. And that motion is ageing, and death, and love, and grief, and final snatched moments and opportunities grasped. The urgency of old age. There’s nothing that makes you feel more alive than the certainty of death.