Books similar to the Thursday Murder Club…

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I’m recovering at home and have a lot of time to read. But I’ve also find in recent year it hard to focus on reading. So I’m alternating. I have plenty of big literary tomes to get though.

Anyway I’m reading the Thursday Murder Club books and I love them! Funny, gentle, a genuine mystery. Are there any other authors/books/series that have that similar feel?

Marlowe Murder Club by Robert Thorogood

Vera wongs unsolicited advice for murders

I didn't particularly like Thursday murder club but this book was what I'd hoped it would be!

I really like The Charity Shop Detective Agency books by Peter Boland.

I haven't read them but perhaps try Richard Coles' books.

Rebecca Tope - Cotswolds (house sitter) or Lake District (florist) series

We Solve Murders (same author as Thursday Murder club series)
How to solve your own murder
Canon Clement Mystery series
Bingo Hall Detectives series
A Spoonful of Murder (4 in the series now I think)
Dinner Lady Detectives series

Her Majesty the Queen Investigates series SJ Bennett

The G.K. Chesterton Father Brown books

If you understand the Edinburgh/ Glasgow thing 44 Scotland Street series is a great read. Nothing to do with murders just a funny lighthearted read full of characters.

The Three Dahlias by Katy Watson. First in a series. Four novels, so far.

I liked the Bob Mortimer books, v gentle and humorous

Patricia Fisher series - Steve Higgs

I was coming back to say The Three Dahlias as well @CoastPath

Try Martin Walker’s Bruno books. About a policeman in the Dordogne. I love them!

Ian Moore’s Follet Valley series, starting with Death & Croissants.

The Appeal by Janice Hallett is a great book. A good plot with humour.

No don’t bother! I thought Richard Osman’s were bad but Richard Cole’s is waaaay worse!

I’m staying right away from ‘celeb’ authors, I have rarely read a good one.

The Dales Detective Series by Julia Chapman are very good. You need to read them in order.

I didn't get on with Richard Coles books.

I know exactly what you mean OP, I alternate between heavier books and what I refer to as chicken soup ones too. I find Stacey Hall ones fit the bill perfectly.

I’m reading The Night In Question by Susan Fletcher at the moment and absolutely loving it.

Thanks! I’m not normally one for celebrity authors, and I avoided the Thursday Murder club for ages. Then I listened to the first one while running and needed something gentle while I’m now recovering from a health thing (and no longer married). I think I like the characters. I find it gentle but not twee. Maybe I’m kidding myself on the twee.

Anthony Horowitz series - 'The word is murder' is the first one - is quite a nice, gently humorous read. It's all a bit meta as the narrator of the book is a fictionalised version of Horowitz.

I've just been checking out some of these suggestions and am laughing at myself thinking that Bingo Hall would be a 1920s upper crust amateur detective!! Too much PG Wodehouse lol.

Definitely would second this suggestion, I love these books.

Simon Brett . Village murders series. Mc Breton Agatha Raisin series also Hamish Macbeth