“The response to these characters and the crimes they solve from readers around the world has been extraordinary and it has been a joy to work with retailers to make publication week such a big moment for everyone to share in.” “It’s wonderful to see how many people have fallen in love with Richard’s fabulous Thursday Murder Club and simply couldn’t wait to read the next instalment,” said his publisher Joanna Prior, managing director of Penguin General. My love and thanks to all the readers, all the amazing booksellers and to Joyce, Elizabeth, Ibrahim and Ron,” said the author and Pointless co-host. Osman said he was “so hugely thrilled” at the sales. The Thursday Murder Club has sold more than one million copies since it was published in September last year, and has spent 45 weeks at the top of the fiction bestseller lists. The last time an author scored a double fiction chart No 1 was in March 2017, when James Patterson’s 16th Seduction topped the hardback fiction chart and Never Never topped the paperbacks list. Osman also topped the paperback charts last week with The Thursday Murder Club, which sold 23,966 copies last week. Bob Mortimer’s And Away… sits behind Osman in second place, having sold 42,094 copies. This week, Rooney’s novel sits at No 4 in the overall charts, with 19,782 copies sold. Last week, Sally Rooney’s third novel Beautiful World, Where Are You topped the UK’s charts with sales of 46,065 copies. Since then, just four hardback adult novels have sold more in their first week on shelves: Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol (550,946 sold in its first week) and Inferno (228,961), JK Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy (124,603), and the late Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman (168,455). If they find the diamonds - well, that's just a bonus.īut this time the murderer isn't some small-time criminal, and it soon becomes terrifying clear that they wouldn't bat an eyelid at killing four septuagenarians.The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman.
So she enlists Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron in the hunt for the killer. His story involves some diamonds, some spies, and a very angry mobster.Įlizabeth puts it down to his normal grandstanding, but then the bodies start piling up. It's (one of) her ex-husbands, and he's being hunted. It's the following Thursday, and Elizabeth has just had a visit from a man she thought was dead.
The second novel in the number one Sunday Times bestselling Thursday Murder Club series featuring the old (but far from past-it) team as they pursue a brand new mystery.
The second novel in the record-breaking number one bestselling Thursday Murder Club series from the biggest debut novelist in recent history
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