Richard Osman Writes Mysteries You Can Sink Your Dentures Into

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🗓️ 29 September 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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So you’re in your mid-50s, you’ve got a great career going as a television personality in Great Britain, so what might be enjoyable to do next? Why write a hugely successful series of mysteries of course. And that is what Richard Osman has done. His novel The Thursday Murder Club is about four bold septuagenarian friends who meet to discuss about unsolved crimes in their retirement village. The Man Who Died Twice and The Bullet That Missed are two riveting extensions of The Thursday Murder Club. Osman talks about casting the film adaptation of his novels and how his mother’s retirement village in England inspired his writing process. The independent bookstore this week is 27th Letter Books and we talk to Erin Pineda, the owner about their incredible story of survival. Books mentioned in the podcast: The Bullet That Missed by Richard Osman The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie Mystic River by Dennis Lehane One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou Scorpionfish by Natalie Bakopoulos Gag Reflex by Elle Nash Parker Looks Up: An Extraordinary Moment by Parker Curry, Jessica Curry and Brittany Jackson Crescenciana: An Art Book and Memoir by Crescenciana Tan + Kenneth Tan Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome, welcome, welcome to the bookcase. I am Kate Kipson.
0:10.6	You used to get on my case when I would do more than one welcome. And now you're into it as well.
0:16.4	Well, give me a way to express enthusiasm for our listeners without saying welcome a multiple times.
0:23.5	I will take suggestions from people who want to write a review.
0:26.6	If they want to suggest how I can welcome people without saying it multiple times and still
0:30.6	show equal enthusiasm, I'm all into it.
0:33.4	All right.
0:35.5	I don't know.
0:37.7	I'm sorry. We have today. I'm Charlie know. I'm sorry.
0:39.1	We have today.
0:40.1	I'm Charlie Gibson, by the way.
0:41.3	That's sort of irrelevant at this point.
0:43.0	And I welcome you too.
0:44.5	Today we have an author.
0:46.0	He is what they call a television presenter or has been in London.
0:50.0	He's English.
0:51.0	In the mid-50s, he's just decided, okay, wouldn't it be fun to write some books?
0:55.8	And he did, and they've been extraordinarily successful, both in the UK and in the United States.
1:02.7	Richard Osmond is his name, and the books are the Thursday Murder Club, and they are just fun.
1:07.9	This is not, he would never make any claims. This is great literature. They're
1:12.3	just fun. And it's about a group of elderly people who meet on Thursdays and decide,
1:18.3	wouldn't it be fun to solve murders, old cases. And they do. And the books are, as I say,
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