The Impossible Fortune

About the book

It’s been a quiet year for the Thursday Murder Club. Joyce is busy with table plans and first dances. Elizabeth is grieving. Ron is dealing with family troubles, and Ibrahim is still providing therapy to his favorite criminal. But when Elizabeth meets Nick, a wedding guest asking for her help, she finds the thrill of the chase is ignited once again. And when Nick disappears without a trace, his cagey business partner becomes the gang’s next stop. It seems the duo have something valuable—something worth killing for. Joyce’s daughter, Joanna, jumps into the fray to help the gang as they seek answers: Has someone kidnapped Nick? And what’s this uncrackable code they keep hearing about? Plunged back into action once more, can the four friends solve the puzzle and a murder in time?

Description: publisher’s blurb via Hardcover

Where the score comes from

The sources average 8.4 across 170 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 48% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Crime & mystery average of 7.6. That is how 8.0 comes out.

Reader voices

The most-liked reviews on Hardcover (credited to their authors).

• “The Thursday Murder Club make a welcome return in The Impossible Fortune. We kick off proceedings with a wedding, that of Joyce's daughter Joanna, to Paul. Naturally, all the gang are there, and it is during the reception that Elizabeth is approached by the best man, Nick Silver, who fears for his life. Could this be what Elizabeth needs now that she must endure life without her beloved Stephen? 🦊 The gang are not quite ready to give up sleuthing, and happily embark on their quest to discover who might want to kill Nick, and why. 🦊 Ron, meanwhile, has his own problems, in the shape of his …”

  ★ 4/5loopykaz on Hardcover

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