“In recent memory we’ve seen hugely successful titles inspire long-term trends within crime fiction – Stieg Larsson’s success leading to a boost for Nordic noir, Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train stimulating the market for psychological thrillers,” said Stone. Nielsen Book Research’s Philip Stone said that Osman was a “publishing phenomenon”. Reviewing it in the Guardian, Lynne Truss found that “a sense of jeopardy is entirely absent”, but added that “if you are happy to let other pens dwell on guilt and misery, you can relax and enjoy this novel, which is superbly entertaining”. Elizabeth, however, is distracted: she has received a letter from an old acquaintance who needs her help, and she and her friends soon find the bodies mounting up.
The Man Who Died Twice opens as the four members of the Thursday Murder Club consider “the cold case of a Hastings newsagent who murdered an intruder with a crossbow”. “The response to these characters and the crimes they solve from readers around the world has been extraordinary and it has been a joy to work with retailers to make publication week such a big moment for everyone to share in.” “It’s wonderful to see how many people have fallen in love with Richard’s fabulous Thursday Murder Club and simply couldn’t wait to read the next instalment,” said his publisher Joanna Prior, managing director of Penguin General. My love and thanks to all the readers, all the amazing booksellers and to Joyce, Elizabeth, Ibrahim and Ron,” said the author and Pointless co-host. Osman said he was “so hugely thrilled” at the sales. The Thursday Murder Club has sold more than one million copies since it was published in September last year, and has spent 45 weeks at the top of the fiction bestseller lists. The last time an author scored a double fiction chart No 1 was in March 2017, when James Patterson’s 16th Seduction topped the hardback fiction chart and Never Never topped the paperbacks list. Osman also topped the paperback charts last week with The Thursday Murder Club, which sold 23,966 copies last week.
Bob Mortimer’s And Away… sits behind Osman in second place, having sold 42,094 copies. This week, Rooney’s novel sits at No 4 in the overall charts, with 19,782 copies sold. Last week, Sally Rooney’s third novel Beautiful World, Where Are You topped the UK’s charts with sales of 46,065 copies. Since then, just four hardback adult novels have sold more in their first week on shelves: Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol (550,946 sold in its first week) and Inferno (228,961), JK Rowling’s The Casual Vacancy (124,603), and the late Harper Lee’s Go Set a Watchman (168,455).
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