Friday, October 3, 2025

The Thursday Murder Club and Deus Ex Machina

 Although deus ex machina didn't show up in Elliott Ackerman's novel, it probably does show up in the next mystery, recommended by a friend, that I read: The NYT best seller The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. 

In the last 75 pages, the protagonists travel outside of England to Nicosia to meet with a patriarch Demir Gundoz (interesting last name). His son Johnny is introduced late in the mystery, a form of deus ex machina. Most cosy mysteries have characters travel from the British countryside to London, in comparison. Break the rules! seems to reign supreme in mysteries. 

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Osman ends the mystery with more than one demise.  

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