There's romance in the air for a few of our characters and the humor is at its best. Joyce is still writing in her diary, with her loyal pooch Alan by her side, which is always a highlight in this series for me. She certainly showed skills in this book we didn't know she had, didn't she? I do believe Joyce and Ibrahim are my favorites and I love how Bogdan always takes such good care of Elizabeth's husband Stephen. He's such a fine chap! The Bullet That Missed is book #3 in the Thursday Murder club series. The unique, eccentric characters make this series a must-read, and this installment is no exception. That's it. It's official. I am a full-on fangirl of the Thursday Murder Club. They can do no wrong in my eyes. Septuagenarians Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim are investigating the decade old unsolved murder of TV news show co-host and journalist Bethany Waites where things seem...well, suspicious. The victim's body was never found and all the cash, from a money laundering scheme Bethany was hotly researching for a story, has never been located. A bit fishy, wouldn't you say? At the end of the audiobook there is a 'bonus chapter' 30-minute interview of the author by English Journalist Steph McGovern. You hear the authors' passion for this series, crime fiction, his main characters, and loves what their experience, wisdom, and eclectic friendships offer to the books and the readers experience. It was fun to hear him admittedly talk about his characters as if they are real!

The Bullet That Missed hits on every front. Its quandaries stymie, its solutions thrill, its banter is worth reciting and its characters exemplify an admirable camaraderie. One can only hope that the Thursday Murder Club’s next outing appears before long.” I read book one and listened to book two. The narrator for book two was so good and I was looking forward to her narration of book three. But instead we got another awesome narrator who made this story even better. I just cannot get enough of these characters and this series!Except trouble is never far away where the Thursday Murder Club is concerned. A decade-old cold case leads them to a local news legend and a murder with no body and no answers. Of course, the facts that Ron Ritchie gets to be interviewed on air or that Joyce has a crush on the suave Mike Waghorn are nice side perks while running their investigation. 😉 Each book in the Thursday Murder Club series gets better and better. The mysteries are more intricately plotted and there are more interesting characters introduced. I have been Googling but there's not much there. I got so desperate I even used Bing but the results were the same if a bit slower. - Joyce Above all it’s good to keep busy. Routine is important in prison. Also, it is important to have things to look forward to, and Connie is looking forward to killing Bogdan.”

The Thursday Murder Club meets every Thursday at 11am in the jigsaw room - except for one notable Thursday when they met at 8am, much to Ibrahim's consternation - to solve murders. They manage to do this rather well, although they usually manage to produce a few more bodies along the way. And it doesn't hurt that they have a couple of tame police officers in their outer circle.She pours herself a drink, and takes one final look at the bullet. Really, she has no choice at all. Osman concocts a satisfyingly complex whodunit full of neat twists and wrong turns. But unlike most crime novelists, he ensures his book’s strength and momentum stem not from its plot or its thrills but rather its perfectly formed characters. Once again, the quartet of friends makes for delightful company… Heartwarming and enthralling. ‘They carried a kind of magic, the four of them,’ a policeman muses. That magic is still there in abundance.” Pauline puts a finger to Ron’s lips to help him out of his cul-de-sac of a sentence. He nods gratefully."

Bogdan? Not our Bogdan Jankowski? He’s a regular friend of the group, a slightly younger Polish ‘associate’, you might say, who has been very helpful at digging up graves and such in the past. A handy chap, to say the least. Why does Connie want to kill him?

Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron, and Ibrahim find an old cold case that interests them, and they’d like to solve it. When they’re on the prowl, they’re going to get their way. Unfortunately for Elizabeth, she’s also dealing with a personal issue when someone from her past threatens her future. She’s reluctant to share this with her friends, but by keeping it to herself…is she putting them in danger? In this installment, our four pensioners are at it again, trying to solve a decade-old murder that never quite made sense. For one, where is the body? And since the victim was chasing down a money-laundering scheme right before her death, what happened to all of that money? It certainly takes a special group of friends to see things that the police missed on the first go-around. So, they have set up an interview with her former co-host from “South East Tonight” as a ruse to see if Mike Waghorn, might have some inside information that would help them solve the case. Ron will be interviewed for a piece on “retirement living” and then the gang will invite Mike to join them for dinner and serve him enough red wine to hopefully loosen his tongue. I think she is a hoot, plus – as Elizabeth notes – she may be naïve, but that isn’t the same as stupid She is smart and has great instincts for ferreting things out.

Once again, I feel it should be stressed that while this series often lands in the cozy category, anyone who loves mysteries or crime fiction will like this series. It’s smart, clever and oh so entertaining! But the best part is how layered these mysteries are. It’s obvious a lot of thought goes into these plots, and the intrigue is always absorbing. There are plenty of laughs to be had, and I am already eagerly awaiting the next installment. If you haven’t started this series yet, DO IT NOW! But Bethany dreams of more, and maybe this is her chance. A dangerous chance, but a chance all the same. Everyone has their favorite character, and mine is retired MI6 Agent Elizabeth Best. The woman is a hoot. Joyce Meadowcroft is a retired nurse, and Ibrahim Arif a renown psychiatrist. The fourth member is Ron Ritchie, a union organizer. The four get themselves involved in a cold case, money laundering, tax evasion scheme that resulted in an unsolved murder. An ex-KGB spy and an eccentric, jailed, drug dealer round out the band of major characters.

And, Ibrahim and Ron continue to become more vulnerable as they grow confident by the loyal friendship that this Club has given to all four members. I do recommend the audiobook narrated by Fiona Shaw, Richard Osman and Steph McGovern, although I would have loved more if it was narrated by Leslie Manville (like in the first two books).