Books like “The Thursday Murder Club”

What to read after “The Thursday Murder Club” by Richard Osman: a list matched by tropes, mood and atmosphere. Under each book you will see what it has in common.

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1
The Marlow Murder Club
Robert Thorogood · 2021
Similar atmosphere: “Cozy Mystery” and “Comfort Read”
When Judith Potts hears a shot while swimming in the Thames near her home, the police see nothing strange. She teams up with a dog walker and a vicar's wife to investigate, and the three amateur sleuths begin to uncover the town's secrets.
2
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Alexander McCall Smith · 1998
Similar atmosphere: “Cozy Mystery” and “Comfort Read”
Precious Ramotswe opens Botswana's first detective agency for ladies, working from a small office in Gaborone. With patience and common sense she takes on a cheating husband, a missing father and a con man, and begins to find her own place in the world.
3
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
Jesse Q. Sutanto · 2023
Similar atmosphere: “Cozy Mystery”
Vera Wong runs a quiet, failing tea shop in San Francisco's Chinatown. Finding a dead man on her floor, she decides the police will bungle it, takes charge of the case and invites the victim's circle to tea, feeding them and questioning them until the truth spills out.
4
Still Life
Louise Penny · 2005
Similar atmosphere: “Cozy Mystery” and “Comfort Read”
In the village of Three Pines, the body of a well-liked woman is found in the woods with an arrow through her heart. Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is drawn into a community where old friendships and hidden resentments make almost everyone a suspect.
5
The Maid
Nita Prose · 2022
Similar atmosphere: “Cozy Mystery”
Molly Gray, a hotel maid who likes everything neat and exact, finds a wealthy guest dead in his bed. Her odd manner and a string of misunderstandings make the police treat her as the main suspect, so she begins her own careful investigation to clear her name.
6
Magpie Murders
Anthony Horowitz · 2016
Similar atmosphere: “Cozy Mystery”
Editor Susan Ryeland receives the manuscript of the ninth Alan Conway mystery, but the last chapters are missing and the author is dead. As she reads the country-house puzzle inside the book, the writer's real quarrels and the missing pages draw her into a case of her own.
7
Agatha Raisin and the Quiche of Death
M. C. Beaton · 1992
Similar atmosphere: “Cozy Mystery”
- Cozy Mystery
- Small Town Secrets
Publicity agent Agatha Raisin retires early to a Cotswold village and enters a baking contest to win over her new neighbours. When a judge dies after eating her quiche, she must clear her name by finding the real killer, whether the village likes it or not.
8
The Murder at the Vicarage
Agatha Christie · 1930
Similar atmosphere: “Cozy Mystery”
Colonel Protheroe is widely disliked in the village of St Mary Mead, so when he is found shot in the vicarage study almost everyone has a motive. As the police chase obvious suspects, the observant spinster Miss Marple follows the quiet gossip and small deceits of her neighbours to the truth.
9
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It
Elle Cosimano · 2021
Similar atmosphere: “Cozy Mystery”
- Cozy Mystery
Finlay Donovan is a broke suspense novelist and mother of two. Discussing a plot with her agent, she is mistaken for a contract killer and offered a job. When the wrong man dies, she has to dispose of a body and solve the case before the police do.
10
The Moving Toyshop
Edmund Crispin · 1946
Similar atmosphere: “Cozy Mystery”
- Cozy Mystery
- Eccentric Detective
Poet Richard Cadogan arrives in Oxford, finds a woman's body in a toyshop and is knocked out. When he returns with the police the shop has become a grocer's. With his friend, eccentric professor Gervase Fen, he hunts for the vanished corpse and the trick behind the impossible scene.
11
The Nine Tailors
Dorothy L. Sayers · 1934
Similar atmosphere: “Cozy Mystery”
Lord Peter Wimsey is stranded by floods in the fenland village of Fenchurch St Paul over New Year. Months later a battered body is found in a newly opened grave, and Wimsey must read the village's bell-ringing lore and an old jewel theft to give the dead man a name.
12
The Innocence of Father Brown
G. K. Chesterton · 1911
Similar atmosphere: “Cozy Mystery”
- Cozy Mystery
- Eccentric Detective
A quiet Catholic priest with a mild manner and an eye for human nature solves impossible crimes that baffle the police. Across twelve stories he uncovers murderers, thieves and impostors, often relying on ordinary details that everyone else has overlooked.