Get to know Richard Osman, author of The Thursday Murder Club
- Dane Luna
- Aug 6
- 2 min read
Updated: Aug 26
Many cozy crime readers are surely looking forward to the Netflix adaptation of Richard Osman's bestselling cozy mystery novel about a group of senior sleuths solving mysteries in Cooper's Chase, a posh retirement village in England.
Before the movie's release on August 28, get to know the author of The Thursday Murder Club!
He wrote The Thursday Murder Club in secret for 18 months
He had the idea while visiting his friend's mother in a retirement village but didn't tell anyone he was writing a book, according to an article from The Guardian:
“I decided I wasn’t going to tell anybody because I didn’t want to be that person who goes around saying, ‘Oh, yeah, I’m writing a book’, but it never happens. When I got to the end I thought, well, there at least I’ve found out that I can do it. But I had no idea what people would make of it.”
Before becoming a published author, Richard Osman was a producer and a TV presenter
He was a presenter of various quiz shows and even created and co-presented Pointless on BBC One.
He currently hosts the podcast The Rest is Entertainment with Marina Hyde.
Richard Osman has an ancestor who became entangled in the 1831 Brighton Trunk Murder
Richard Osman's great, great, great, great grandfather, Gabriel Gillam, became an accidental amateur sleuth in a highly publicized Victorian murder case when he discovered the body of a woman inside a luggage trunk along a footpath in 1831. The victim was later identified as Celia Holloway, who had been murdered by her husband, John Holloway.
A century later in 1934, a similar discovery was made when a body was again found in a trunk, also in Brighton.
His brother is the bassist of band Suede, who's also written a novel
Mat Osman is Richard's older brother. He is the bassist of English rock band Suede and is also a writer. He wrote The Ghost Theatre, a historical fiction novel set in Elizabethan London.
Richard Osman has also written a new mystery series
We Solve Murders features a father and daughter-in-law detective duo, a murder in paradise, and a race around the world after the killer.
Have you read The Thursday Murder Club, and will you be watching the movie on Netflix when it comes out?
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