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Listen to the interview by Michelle Cottle of the New York Times with Richard Osman, writer of the Thursday Murder Club mystery series.
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Aging isn’t easy, and topics like dementia and medically assisted dying can be hard to talk about. The British mystery writer Richard Osman is trying to change that. Osman has reimagined the notion of aging through his best-selling “Thursday Murder Club” series, centered on four seniors living in a posh retirement community who solve murders.
In this episode, he sits down with the Opinion writer Michelle Cottle to discuss why seniors make ideal fictional detectives and how a “cozy” murder mystery is the perfect frame to explore growing old.
“It’s really about characters who are slightly older. And it’s about unlikely friendships and the world we live in, what we do to older people and the invisibility they have and the way we underestimate them. You get all the lovely packaging of a cozy crime. You get all the cuteness of an English murder mystery. But really, I hope what you are reading is something about real people living real lives with plenty of laughs, plenty of tears and plenty of murders.”
