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The Thursday Murder Club
At Coopers Chase, a luxury retirement village in the Kentish Weald, four residents meet every Thursday in the Jigsaw Room to pick apart old murder files. Elizabeth will not say what she used to do. Joyce has a diary, a nurse's eye, and cake. Ibrahim brings the psychiatrist's notebook. Ron brings the union-hall volume. When a killing happens on their doorstep — and then another — the club gets the live case they have been practicing for. Funny, twisty, and sneakily sad about memory, friendship, and who still gets taken seriously after seventy.
“We have forgotten our manners, Detective Chief Inspector. We haven't offered you any cake.”
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The Thursday Murder Club Icebreakers
Answer in under 30 seconds. These connect to the book’s themes without spoiling the story.
Personality Reveal
1. Are you the friend who already has a plan, or the friend who notices what everyone else missed?
Personality Reveal
2. When a room underestimates you, do you correct them immediately or let them keep talking while you take notes?
Personality Reveal
3. Are you more likely to keep one important secret for decades, or to tell a trusted notebook everything by Thursday?
Funny & Light
4. What is the most unhinged club or group chat you have ever joined with a straight face?
Funny & Light
5. What baked good would you weaponize if you needed someone to stay for one more question?
Funny & Light
6. What is your most respectable hobby that would look deeply suspicious written on a police form?
Would You Rather
7. Would you rather be the person everyone underestimates, or the person everyone watches too closely?
Would You Rather
8. Would you rather know every secret on your street, or have nobody know any of yours?
Would You Rather
9. Would you rather be famous for a job you used to do, or completely unknown and free to start something new?
Hot Take
10. Hot take: amateur detectives should stay out of live police work. Agree or disagree?
Hot Take
11. Hot take: the person who brings cake is actually running the meeting. Agree or disagree?
Hot Take
12. Hot take: rest is wasted on people who still want a project. Agree or disagree?
Personal Connection
13. Who in your life still surprises people who only see their age, job title, or quietness?
Personal Connection
14. When did you last join a group of people you would not have chosen on paper — and stay?
Personal Connection
15. What is one skill from an old job or chapter of your life that you still use in completely the wrong context?