{"id":22377,"date":"2023-09-23T18:11:03","date_gmt":"2023-09-23T22:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/?p=22377"},"modified":"2025-09-29T22:09:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T02:09:06","slug":"the-bullet-that-missed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/klishis.com\/reading\/archives\/22377","title":{"rendered":"The Bullet That Missed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Bullet That Missed<\/em><\/a> (2022) Richard Osman<\/a> (Thursday Murder Club)<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>The gang are back together (they were never apart, actually) and have decided to look into the murder of a young newscaster, partially because it is an interesting case (no body was ever found) and partially because Joyce wants to meet the man she worked with before she died.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had read you were a Buddhist, Mike?\u201d Ibrahim spent the morning researching their guest. <\/p>\n

\u201cI am,\u201d says Mike. \u201cThirty-odd years.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAh,\u201d says Ibrahim. \u201cI had been under the impression that Buddhists were vegetarian? I was almost sure.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m Church of England too,\u201d says Mike. \u201cSo I pick and choose. That\u2019s the point of being a Buddhist.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cI stand corrected,\u201d says Ibrahim.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Ah, Joyce.<\/p>\n

I am Googling Heather Garbutt and listening to the World Service. She is difficult to Google, because there\u2019s also an Australian hockey player called Heather Garbutt, and most of the results are about her. I actually ended up quite interested in the hockey player, and I follow her on Instagram now. She has three very beautiful children.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The group comes to the attention of the police–beyond Chris and Donna.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen your other friends. The ladies?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cJoyce and Elizabeth?\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cYou might be comfortable with a chief constable questioning you. Ron might take it in his stride. But two elderly women? How do you think the two of them would react if I decided to question them? Because if I have to, I will.\u201d <\/p>\n

Ibrahim laughs. \u201cI wish you the very best of luck with that, Andrew.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This series remains a delight, always going places I would never expect–even with Elizabeth involved.<\/p>\n

Publisher: Pamela Dorman Books<\/p>\n

Rating: 9\/10<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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