Can our heroes succeed where the police failed? This time, a local news presenter investigating VAT fraud is run off the road and over the edge of a cliff on the A20 near Dover.

Plot The Thursday Murder Club – four pensioners who live in a fictional Kent retirement village, and keep their minds active by solving old crimes together – are back for their third trip around the block, written by Osman, the TV producer turned host of Pointless turned novelist. Who should buy this book? Fans of The Great British Bake Off, especially fans who have just started to notice how wobbly the show has got without her. Most recent Amazon review (at the time of writing) “There were so many current pop culture references that it almost felt like the book was written by a teenager.” Previous works Two nonfiction books, From Here to Maternity and Going Ga Ga.Ĭover quote “I enjoyed it HUGELY” – Marian Keyes. Quite frankly, there can’t be enough of her in the world. In interviews, Giedroyc has spoken of her desire to turn The Best Things into a “Leatherhead Trilogy”. But this isn’t a bad thing in the slightest. In particular Sally, who, while starting out as a slightly unlikable trophy housewife, quickly blossoms into a full-blown Giedroyc analogue, with spunk and pep and let’s-smile-through-the-bad-times determination. It is impossible to read The Best Things in anything other than Giedroyc’s voice. Main character Sally, a woman who gleefully rediscovers her can-do attitude when all the unnecessary peripherals start to fall away. This debut novel comes from the comedian and former Bake Off co-host Mel Giedroyc, one half of Mel and Sue.

But when her husband suddenly goes bankrupt, all this is whipped away from her and she can start to find herself again. She has a full-time nanny, a chef and someone to groom her dogs. Plot Sally Parker is the bored wife of an elaborately rich hedge fund manager. Photograph: Oliver Dixon/Rex/Shutterstock There can’t be enough of her in the world … Mel Giedroyc with her book The Best Things.

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