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The Impossible Fortune
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  • Published: 25 October 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241743980
  • Imprint: Viking Fiction
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $49.99
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The Impossible Fortune

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23 Sept 2025
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25 Sept 2025
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25 Sept 2025
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25 Oct 2025
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The unmissable new mystery in the bestselling, record-breaking Thursday Murder Club series by Richard Osman

Who's got time to think about murder when there's a wedding to plan?

It’s been a quiet year for the Thursday Murder Club. Joyce is busy with table plans and first dances. Elizabeth is grieving. Ron is dealing with family troubles, and Ibrahim is still providing therapy to his favourite criminal.

But when Elizabeth meets a wedding guest who fears for their life, the thrill of the chase is ignited once again. A villain wants access to an uncrackable code and will stop at nothing to get it. Plunged back into their most explosive investigation yet, can the gang solve the puzzle and a murder in time?
  • Published: 25 October 2025
  • ISBN: 9780241743980
  • Imprint: Viking Fiction
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $49.99
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About the author

Richard Osman

Richard Osman is a creative director for Endemol UK. He has worked as an executive producer on numerous shows including 8 Out of 10 Cats and 10 O'Clock Live. Richard rose to fame presenting Pointless with Alexander Armstrong. Richard's popularity and tremendous knowledge of trivia led to him presenting his own BBC quiz,Two Tribes along with Insert Name Here, Child Genius and Richard Osman's House of Games. He is also a regular on panel shows such as Have I Got News For You and writes a column for the Radio Times.

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Praise for The Impossible Fortune

Full of humour, this is our fave one yet!

SUN

This proves to be one of Osman’s more cleverly plotted whodunnits, with bonus brainteasers in the form of cunning codes to crack

DAILY TELEGRAPH

A gently humorous read, peopled with characters who feel like old friends

GUARDIAN

A delight . . . if you really want to find out how families and friends react and interact and talk, then go to Richard Osman

iPAPER

Osman reaches audiences other authors do not because he ?truly shares their world

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