Despite huge success as a crime novelist, Richard Osman admits it’s “absolutely terrifying” when other people read his books for the first time. In fact, Osman – whose new title, The Last Devil to Die, has just become the fastest-selling hardback novel by a British author in history – won’t even let his new wife read them until they’ve been officially proof read.
Osman, 52, who first became a household name as the presenter of hit TV shows like Pointless and House Of Games, clearly has no solid reason to be so doubtful of his writing. The first of his four-novel Thursday Murder Club series became a platinum bestseller with over a million copies sold in the UK, and Steven Spielberg’s production company has even snapped up the film rights.
The Last Devil to Die – the fourth book in the series – sold a record-breaking 146,919 hardback copies in its first week of sales this month. The book is the latest crime-fighting adventure for a group of intrepid pensioners who live in a Kent retirement village. The new tale features drug dealing , art forgery, a mounting body count and even, as this is about a group of elderly people and Osman is determined to tackle real issues, dementia.
Although he loves the fun and mischief his golden oldies enjoy in his books, “these accounts have to be true, and if you’re older then it does bring infirmity, it brings grief, there’s death around, and dementia,” he adds. “So I have to write about those things if I’m writing older characters, because I have to write the truth of how they live.”
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