The Impossible Fortune The new novel in the multi-million copy bestselling murder mystery series

The Thursday Murder Club returns in The Impossible Fortune, the first volume in Richard Osman’s internationally bestselling cozy mystery series. The four septuagenarian friends are navigating personal milestones in their quiet English village. Joyce busies herself with wedding preparations, Elizabeth mourns in solitude, Ron faces family pressures, and Ibrahim continues treating his favorite criminal client. Their routine, however, is upended when Elizabeth encounters a wedding guest convinced someone wants them dead.

The gang soon finds itself drawn into a perilous hunt for an uncrackable code, pursued by a ruthless enemy who will stop at nothing to possess it. Blending gentle humor, small-town charm, and genuine suspense, Osman delivers another fiendishly clever amateur sleuth puzzle. With dry wit and warm camaraderie, the Club must race to solve a murder and crack the cipher before the wedding celebrations turn deadly.