Will I love The Impossible Fortune?

Osman does the hardest thing in this genre and I have no idea how. He is properly funny and properly sad in the same chapter, and I cannot think of many writers who manage either, let alone both at once. What keeps me coming back to this series is not the puzzle, it is the people. Five books in and he still has not run out of warmth for them, which I find genuinely impressive. I went in expecting to be entertained and came out slightly emotional about a group of pensioners.

Book 5 in Osman’s series of elderly sleuths, the plot is as convoluted as always, but the real magic is the characters, each with their own personality, each with their own problems and interests, each enjoyable and just plain fun to be around. I love older characters and have written a cozy mystery series starring older ladies and a suspense novel with a quirky mother, and these four Thursday Murder Clubbers are right up my alley.