Pick 01 · Top match
The Man Who Died Twice
by Richard Osman
4.8/ 5Incredible
Like The Thursday Murder Club, it leans into cozy mystery and mystery. Great if you like amateur sleuths with genuine cunning
Starting point — pull a thread
Books Like The Thursday Murder Club: Cozy, Clever Mysteries
If you loved The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman.
Richard Osman’s hit proves a murder mystery can be warm, funny, and genuinely clever all at once. For readers who want sharp puzzles wrapped in good company — amateur sleuths, dry wit, low gore — here are the reviewed cozy mysteries to settle in with next.
Why these match
- amateur sleuth
- whodunit
- friendship
- wit
- small town
Quick answer
What should you read after The Thursday Murder Club?
Start with The Man Who Died Twice, The Thursday Murder Club: A Novel (Thursday Murder Club Mysteries Book 1), or The Granddaughters: Always. They are the closest matches in our reviewed catalog; the full list below explains where each recommendation overlaps and where it goes its own way.
Updated August 2026
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Pick 02
The Thursday Murder Club: A Novel (Thursday Murder Club Mysteries Book 1)
by Richard Osman
4.3/ 5Excellent
This is where the whole series starts, four sharp-witted retirees at a genteel English village turning a lifetime of cunning, the kind that never actually retired, on a real killer. If you came in through a later book or the film, the original still has the warmest, funniest version of the formula: puzzle-box plotting with real affection for its characters.
Pick 03
The Granddaughters: Always
by Margaret Belle
4.5/ 5Outstanding
Included with Kindle UnlimitedRichard Osman's pensioners prove that age and warmth can sharpen a sleuth rather than soften one, and Margaret Belle builds her Orange Lake mystery on exactly that conviction. Three older women take in a terrified eight-year-old who witnessed a killing but cannot speak a word, and the case turns on protecting the child rather than dissecting the corpse. The result keeps the genuine affection and found-family glow that makes the Thursday Murder Club such good company, but threads it with a real undercurrent of danger, since the killer knows the one witness who could name him is now living under three sharp, underestimated women's roof. For readers who want amateur detectives with backbone and a strong sense of small-town place, it's a warm, suspenseful next case.
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Pick 04
Still Life
by Louise Penny
4.2/ 5Excellent
Included with Kindle UnlimitedPenny's debut introduces Chief Inspector Gamache and the village of Three Pines through a death that looks like a hunting accident and isn't. Quiet and unhurried, it cares as much about decency and community as the culprit — perfect for cozy readers tired of gore who want a series to love from book one.
Pick 05
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
by Benjamin Stevenson
4.0/ 5Excellent
For readers who came to The Thursday Murder Club for the mystery and crime, this is a natural next stop. Great if you love fair-play whodunits with stated rules
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Pick 06
The Granddaughters
by Margaret Belle
4.7/ 5Outstanding
Included with Kindle UnlimitedThree older women reopen a cold case at the lakeside house their grandmother once owned, and the book bets nobody watches the woman everyone underestimates. Part warm reunion, part amateur-sleuth mystery, with real stakes and the same delight in clever seniors that makes Osman's club so easy to root for.
Pick 07
Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers
by Jesse Q. Sutanto
4.2/ 5Excellent
A dead man turns up in a lonely widow's failing tea shop, and she decides she'll solve it better than the police can. Sutanto's cozy is powered entirely by its meddling, big-hearted narrator, whose detective work is really a campaign to collect the lost people around her. Warm, funny, and quietly moving.
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Pick 08
The Keeper
by Tana French
4.4/ 5Excellent
Same mystery wavelength as The Thursday Murder Club, with a story all its own. Readers who loved the first two Cal Hooper novels
Pick 09
Big Little Lies (Big Little series)
by Liane Moriarty
4.3/ 5Excellent
A school-fundraiser death sends Moriarty backward through three mothers' overlapping lies to explain how it happened. The humor is just as sharp as Osman's, but the secrets run through marriage and motherhood instead of a retirement village, forensics optional.
Pick 10
The Guest List: A Reese's Book Club Pick and New York Times Bestseller
by Lucy Foley
4.1/ 5Excellent
Trade the retirement village for a wedding on a storm-cut Irish island, and the body count starts the same way, someone the guests all had a reason to want gone. Lucy Foley rotates through suspects one narrator at a time, dressing up old grudges in designer silk. Less cozy than Osman's foursome, but it keeps the same fair-play instinct: the clues are all there if you're paying attention.
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- What makes these books similar to The Thursday Murder Club?
- The strongest shared threads are amateur sleuth, whodunit, friendship, wit, small town. Each recommendation is chosen for a specific overlap in tone, theme, character, or reading experience rather than genre alone.
- Are all of these books reviewed?
- Yes. Every recommendation links to a complete Book of the Day review with our score, verdict, and guidance on who will enjoy it.
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