I absolutely flew through Osman’s ‘The Bullet That Missed’, reading at least two thirds of it in a day. His third instalment of the ‘Thursday Murder Club’ series was as lighthearted yet captivating murder mystery as the rest, but I would also argue his weakest. Whilst in hindsight I perhaps was too generous in my reviews of the first two, and it wasn’t 2 stars equivalent of a weaker book, it still was not quite on the level of the prior pair. It follows the collection of pensioners as they investigate the murder of promising news reporter and journalist Bethany Waites, whilst getting entangled in various organised crime plots and past relations with KGB spies. I was really engaged in the primary mystery, and the initial solution and ending prior to the classical murder mystery twist was satisfactory, the true ending and twist that came about in the matter of a few inserted pages and changed the whole manner of the story was however really disappointing. My other criticism is that whilst each crafted well, and each character interesting and loveable, I felt that this instalment introduced too many individuals taking on separate parts of the investigation, as oppose to the initial concept of the collection of four pensioners working through each stage together. A lot of the dynamic between them is lost when they each take separate strands of investigation and keep recruiting other characters outside of the Thursday Murder Club to handle separate avenues of enquiry. Despite this, the book was still a light and fun read and kept me engaged, just disappointed in comparison to Osman’s first two books.