IF Marty McFly arrived in 2022, he’d be baffled why a) no one is using hoverboards and b) everyone seems to be reading books about a band of elderly sleuths who live in a retirement home written by one of the presenters of Pointless.
Since his first book in 2020, Richard Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series has sold 3.1 million copies, earning £25 million, and turned the “cosy crime” genre — gentle mysteries set in small communities with no unseemly gore — into the book world’s current blockbuster trend.
Helped by Janice Hallett’s brilliant pageturner The Appeal in 2021, the enduring influence of Agatha Christie and Reverend Richard Coles’s Murder Before Evensong, the growth of the genre has seen publishers scramble to capitalise on its popularity. Suk Pannu, writer for The Kumars at No 42, author Tilly Bagshawe and even Strictly’s Shirley Ballas all landing cosy crime deals in the past 18 months.
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