Chris Hewitt, The Minnesota Star Tribune

How pervasive is the “Thursday Murder Club” universe? Consider this: The fifth book in the bestselling series, “The Impossible Fortune” (out Sept. 30), includes a joke about an actor who stars in the movie version of the first book, which zipped to the top of Netflix playlists last month.

That Pierce Brosnan inside joke in “Impossible” was obviously planted as an Easter egg for fans of the movie based on the novel “ The Thursday Murder Club ,” which debuted in 2020 and has produced a sequel each year except 2024, when writer Richard Osman published a non-“Thursday” thriller called “We Solve Murders.”

But if you’re not already one of those fans who knows that Joyce loves to make lemon drizzle cakes or that Ibrahim’s sexuality has some question

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