Elizabeth first hatches a plan to get Police Constable Donna De Freitas (who they are friendly with and who is frustrated with doing low-level police work) assigned to the case by having Ron (who witnessed an argument between Ian and Tony) refuse to talk to anyone else. Later that day, Tony Curran is murdered.īy the next morning, the Thursday Murder Club has gotten wind of Tony’s murder and begins to investigate. Ian also fires Tony Curran, replacing him with his main contractor Bogdan Jankowski. Father Matthew Mackie shows up to voice his concerns about the cemetery.

This announcement raises a lot of ire, especially because it will disturb the Garden of Eternal Rest cemetery where all the nuns from the former convent were laid to rest. Instead, Ian has been reminding Gordon’s daughter Karen of the large amount of money her father would be paid if she can convince Gordon otherwise.Īs the story opens, Ian Ventham has called a meeting to announce “the Woodlands”, a new development on the lands. Ian has plans to purchase the land next to it as well, but the current owner Gordon Playfair doesn’t like him and doesn’t want to sell to him. Now, it is owned by Ian Ventham, an unlikeable and unscrupulous man, who developed it into a retirement village along with his lead builder, Tony Curran. Joyce is the newest member, who joined to replace Penny (who now has dementia).Ĭoopers Chase was once a convent housing the Sisters of the Holy Church. The group was originally founded by Elizabeth (whose former occupation can’t be disclosed) and Penny (a former police detective). Part One introduces the Thursday Murder Club, a group of four retirees - E lizabeth, Ron, Ibrahim and Joyce - at the Coopers Chase retirement village who get together to investigate unsolved cases. The bones belong to Peter Mercer and was a vigilante killing (by Penny, who is a former police detective and former founding member of the Thursday Murder Club before she got dementia) because Peter had gotten away with murdering his girlfriend. Ian’s murder was to derail the new development in order to prevent discovery of the bones. It’s eventually revealed that Tony’s murder was to settle a score associated an old drug-related killing.

Then, when construction begins on the new development, an extra unmarked set of bones dating from the 70s is found at the graveyard on the land. Four retirees (Elizabeth, Ron, Ibrahim and Joyce - the Thursday Murder Club) investigate the murders. The one-paragraph version: Just after a new development is announced at the Coopers Chase retirement village, the lead builder (Tony) is killed and soon after the landowner (Ian) is killed as well.

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