The Last Devil to Die is written by Richard Osman. It is Book #4 of the Thursday Murder Club series.
Disturbing news reaches Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron & Ibrahim - the Thursday Murder Club. An old friend has been murdered and a ‘special’ package he was protecting has gone missing.
In their desire to solve the murder, the group encounters drug dealers, art forgers, antiques dealers, antiquities experts and fraudsters of all types. As the body count increases, they don’t know who to trust.
Brilliant plotting, likeable, quirky characters, a nice retirement village, lots of cakes, snacks and wine and lots of information and thoughts on dementia and end of life directives.
The dialogue and diary entries (thanks to Joyce) are interesting, funny, endearing, surprising, charming, intelligent and very often deeply thought-provoking.
I seem to be addicted to The Thursday Murder Club! ***** ( )

Enjoyable, but kind of slow for the first half . ( )

This is such a joy of a light(ish) crime fiction series that I've had the great pleasure of listening to.

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Another romp with Elizabeth, Ron, Bogdan, Joyce and Ibrahim. As with volumes 2&3 I found it enjoyable but just too blatantly formulaic, hence being tight with my * rating.

That said, each novel has offered something thought provoking and authentic beyond its murder plot. In this volume it was the Elizabeth/Stephen thread about his dementia. I've rarely come across such a touching presentation of a difficult subject. ( )

*sobs internally*
Well I didn't sign up for that emotional turmoil in my cozy mystery, but here we are. I'm still glad I read it. ( )