Any publisher would be keen for Osman to press on with the series after such record-breaking success – The Man Who Died Twice sold an astonishing 114,202 hardbacks in the UK in its first three days last year. Its predecessors, The Thursday Murder Club and The Man Who Died Twice, sold millions of copies around the world. The Bullet That Missed is the third outing for Osman’s retirees. The simple life is all well and good, but, in this moment, with a murder to investigate, and threatening texts arriving daily, Elizabeth realises she has missed trouble.” Writing genuinely funny prose is not at all easy it is rare that I find a book that has me actually laughing out loud A retired optometrist crashed his moped into a tree, and there has been a row about milk bottles, but that was about it for excitement. Not only is her beloved Stephen slipping deeper into the clutches of dementia, but she’s kidnapped and charged with carrying out a hit herself. Elizabeth, Osman’s retired spy, has other problems to deal with.
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