It was published on 3 September 2020 by Viking Press, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House, and also released in 2020 as an audiobook, read by Lesley Manville.

[1] A group of pensioners (Elizabeth Best, Ron Ritchie, Joyce Meadowcroft and Ibrahim Arif)[2] set about solving the mystery of the murder of a property developer[3] in the luxurious Cooper's Chase retirement village near the fictitious village of Fairhaven in Kent.

[3] After a 10-way publishing auction,[2] Penguin Random House acquired the rights to The Thursday Murder Club and its sequel The Man Who Died Twice for a seven-figure sum[4] in 2019.

[5] In the week leading up to 19 December, it sold 134,514 copies, making it the first debut novel ever to be Christmas number one in the UK.

[15][16] Filming was reportedly set to start in March 2024, with Viola Davis and Meryl Streep rumored to be attached.