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In peaceful Coopers Chase, a luxury retirement village in the Kentish Weald, four residents meet up once a week to investigate unsolved murders.

Highly accomplished in their pre-retirement professions - psychiatrist, nurse, political firebrand and, probably, international spy - they are eminently qualified for the job.

But when a brutal killing takes place on their doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case.

Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing 80 but they still run rings round the local police.

They persuade local policewoman PC Donna De Freitas to join them when she visits Coopers Chase to give a talk on safety for the elderly. She soon realises the cosy talk she has planned isn't going to cut it with this rather feisty and wily group of seniors. But they do need her help.

Built on the grounds of a former rectory, the village is on the verge of being developed by its wealthy owner, but before he goes ahead he must sack his long-term partner. He’s worried that he won’t take the news well…

Drug gangs, high finance and lemon drizzle all loom large in Richard Osman’s compelling, funny and endearing crime thriller.

Omnibus of the first five of ten parts abridged by Sara Davies.

Read by Haydn Gwynne.

Music by Tom Constantine.

Producer: Mary Ward-Lowery

First broadcast on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 4 in January 2021.

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