The Impossible Fortune

THE UNMISSABLE NEW MYSTERY IN THE MULTI-MILLION-COPY BESTSELLING, RECORD-BREAKING THURSDAY MURDER CLUB SERIES'Irresistible' LEE CHILD'Funny, clever, compelling' HARLAN COBEN'The rightful king of crime' i PAPER----------------------------A wedding. A code. A murder. Time is ticking . . .It's been a quiet year for the Thursday Murder Club. Joyce is busy with table plans and first dances. Elizabeth is grieving. Ron is dealing with family troubles, and Ibrahim is still providing therapy to his favourite criminal.But when Elizabeth meets a wedding guest who fears for their life, the thrill of the chase is ignited once again. A villain wants access to an uncrackable code and will stop at nothing to get it.Plunged back into their most explosive investigation yet, can the gang solve the puzzle and a murder in time?Praise for Richard Osman and the Thursday Murder Club series'So smart and funny. Deplorably good' IAN RANKIN'Osman just gets better' SHARI LAPENA

'I smiled a million times' MARIAN KEYES'Warm, wise and witty' VAL MCDERMID'Brilliantly suspenseful' JEFFERY DEAVER'The thing that shines through in Osman's writing is that he really likes people and revels in all their foibles and eccentricities . . . a delightful read' OBSERVER'Gripping and rather moving' SUNDAY TIMES'The biggest new fiction author of the decade' GUARDIAN'Underestimate him at your own peril' INDEPENDENT'Richard Osman seems incapable of missing' THE TIMES