The Impossible Fortune (2025) is the 5th book in the Thursday Murder Club series, written by the always entertaining British author and television presenter, Richard Osman.

The cast of the Netflix film is impressive:

• Helen Mirren as Elizabeth Best, a retired MI6 officer
• Pierce Brosnan as Ron Ritchie, a retired twice-divorced union leader
• Ben Kingsley as Professor Ibrahim Arif, a retired psychiatrist
• Celia Imrie as Joyce Meadowcroft, a retired trauma nurse

Ibrahim is my favourite, for sure.

Four pensioners, friends at a retirement village in Kent, England decide to solve murders as a retirement hobby.

This book is a little different. They investigate a crypto scheme. Not a bad plot.

In her Library Journal review, Liz French wrote, “The crime, though ingeniously plotted, with many red herrings, is not the main attraction. It’s the growing love and respect among the Thursdays and their kith and kin, including a few criminals and cops, that is the biggest draw.”

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. This is based on book 1.