This is the 4th in the "Thursday Murder Club" series by Richard Osman and the characters and plotting continue to fully engage me. Joyce is pursuing yet another unavailable male who is in the throes of a romance scam, which the gang are determined to expose and bring to justice. Elizabeth is dealing with Stephen's increasing losses to dementia. Ibrahim is acting as therapist to a big time drug dealer, Connie, who is in prison and just occasionally serves as a source of information about bad guys for the Thursday Murder Club. Ron is still not making a commitment to Pauline but finds that, since their last spat and her radio silence, he misses her quite a bit. Then they learn that a long-time friend of Stephen's has been murdered and they are determined to find the killer. The victim was an antiques dealer who occasionally served as a transit station for illegal drugs coming into the country, so the friends quickly get involved in a dangerous game of cat and mouse with some pretty scary people. The body count will continue to rise unless the gang solves the mystery or until the last devil is dead. Library Journal says of this story that it's "a bittersweet mystery about the problems facing many older people: dementia, computer fraud, death. Humor does, however, alleviate the poignancy in this strongest, most emotional book in the best-selling series."
Kirkus offers this brief plot summary: "In their last outing, they were helped by antiques dealer Kuldesh Sharma, an old friend of Elizabeth's husband, Stephen, and now they're devastated to learn that Kuldesh has been murdered, shot in the head while parked at the end of a dirt road. A missing shipment of heroin seems to have been involved. This gives the gang another chance to fearlessly poke their noses into places you wouldn't expect to find people their age .. ." and concludes their review by saying "Osman serves up another delightful mystery..."
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