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In a peaceful Kent retirement village, four residents meet up to investigate unsolved murders. Read by Haydn Gwynne.

In peaceful Coopers Chase, a luxury retirement village in the Kentish Weald, four residents meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders.

Highly accomplished in their pre-retirement professions - psychiatrist, nurse, political firebrand and, probably, international spy - they are eminently qualified for the job.

But when a brutal killing takes place on their doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case.

Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing 80 but they still run rings round the local police.

They persuade local policewoman PC Donna De Freitas to join them when she visits Coopers Chase to give a talk on safety for the elderly. She soon realises the cosy talk she has planned isn't going to cut it with this rather feisty and wily group of seniors. But they do need her help.

Built on the grounds of a former rectory, the village is on the verge of being developed by its wealthy owner, but before he goes ahead he must sack his long-term partner. He鈥檚 worried that he won鈥檛 take the news well鈥�

Drug gangs, high finance and lemon drizzle all loom large in Richard Osman鈥檚 compelling, funny and endearing crime thriller.

Omnibus of the first five of ten parts abridged by Sara Davies.

Read by Haydn Gwynne.

Music by Tom Constantine.

Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery

First broadcast on 成人快手 Radio 4 in January 2021.

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1 hour, 15 minutes

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Sun 30 Mar 2025 03:30

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