Books Like The Thursday Murder Club
If The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman worked for you, these indie books offer a similar reading experience. The comparison comes from AI analysis of each full manuscript (pacing, tone, tropes, and more), not from marketing copy.
Deeds and Dead Ends
River T Thorn
A dead woman, a forged will, and a strip of headland worth killing for. Painter Brandy Davis expected a quiet summer at her inherited lighthouse, not a dead woman’s final request or a will that doesn’t add up. With Jasper, her sharp-tongued black cat who notices everything, Brandy follows Nell Ferris’s trail from a mysterious envelope to Whitmore & Associates, where one document could decide the fate of Moonstone Bay’s headland strip. Nell’s devoted carer, Daisy Kell, looks guilty enough to make the whole town suspicious: She inherits the property and knows every detail of Nell’s affairs. Then there’s Old Tom Ferris, Nell’s estranged brother, who wanted the land protected and argued with her over its future. Both have secrets. When a second death proves someone is willing to silence anyone who gets too close, Brandy realizes the forged will is only the beginning. With the killer closing in, she must uncover the truth before the headland strip, and the next life, becomes another dead end.
Cozy
What Lies Within
Audrey Finch
She knows her brother wouldn’t abandon her. But she is discovering how much she doesn’t know about him. Glasgow, 1988. Eighteen-year-old Pat Devine has pink hair, a university course she’s been neglecting, and an older brother who has always been there for her. Since their parents died, Tom has been the one person she could count on. Then he disappears. A parcel addressed to Tom contains a hollowed-out Bible and a key. Following it, Pat discovers her brother’s secret life as a private investigator—and a trail leading to a struggling Dundee jute mill, where he is accused of stealing a hundred thousand pounds. Pat is certain Tom is no thief. Finding him, however, will take more than certainty. Ruth, the mill owner’s daughter, offers a way inside. Fiercely protective of her father and passionate about the business, she is also someone Pat finds increasingly difficult to resist. Working together gives Pat hope of finding Tom. Being together offers something she hadn’t expected to find at all. But missing stock is only a small part of what is happening at the mill. As Pat uncovers connections between Dundee’s docks and Glasgow’s streets, she must learn to question the people she wants to believe—and recognise how her own loyalties shape what she sees. What Lies Within is a psychological crime novel about family, desire, moral compromise and the choices people make to protect what they cannot bear to lose. With a lesbian protagonist, a sharp Scottish voice and a relationship at its emotional heart, it introduces Pat, Tom and Davie: three people whose different instincts will become the foundation of The Devine Trio. Book One of The Devine Trio.
Crime
Forever, Maybe
Emma Baird
What if your greatest love story is also your biggest question mark? Two decades after a chance encounter outside a Glasgow sandwich van sparks an unforgettable romance, Nell and Daniel appear to have it all. But beneath the surface, their marriage is quietly crumbling. This moving marriage fiction explores what happens when love, ambition, and regret collide in midlife.
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