Helen Mirren , Pierce Brosnan , Ben Kingsley and Celia Imrie are silver-haired amateur sleuths who suddenly find themselves solving a real life whodunit in the trailer for The Thursday Murder Club for Netflix .

Think Only Murders in the Building , only set in a British retirement home, as the comic crime caper based on the book by Richard Osman introduces senior crime busters not content to just play bridge or engage in idle gossip for leisure. Osman’s book has become a classic among British crime thrillers.

“If any harm comes to my friends, I will personally be laying a dozen blood-red roses on your coffin,” a steely Mirren, who plays the role of ex-spy Elizabeth, says at one point in the trailer that introduces Richard Tennant as a villain. The series is underpinned by class

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