Instead, he meets with Viktor and Henrik, two friends of the members of the Thursday Murder Club. However, when he is pressed with questions about Bethany’s death, Andrew admits that he murdered her.Īndrew believes he is meeting with a man who can help him launder the money he has stolen. From Jack, they are able to trace old business accounts to Andrew Everton, the Chief Constable of Kent. With the help of Viktor Illyich, the former head of the Leningrad KGB, Joyce and her crew trace the tax fraud scam from Heather Garbutt, who is in jail for the crime, to her boss, Jack Mason. Fibers from Bethany’s clothes and her blood were found in the car, which went over the cliff. A CCTV camera recorded Bethany’s car, with two people inside, driving up to Shakespeare Cliff later that night.

She told no one about the message or the meeting. She had been investigating a VAT scam and had received a message asking her to meet a source. Instead, she faked her death and escaped to Dubai with the proceeds of her believed murderer’s tax fraud scheme.īethany disappeared one evening after she sent her co-anchor, Mike Waghorn, a message that she had not said thank you to him enough.

Along the way, there is a twist because the man who confesses to the murder of Bethany Waites, a promising young news reporter, did not kill her. In this novel, Joyce Meadowcraft and her friends drink, gossip, and laugh their way through solving another murder. The Bullet That Missed, by Richard Osman, is the third installment in the Thursday Murder Club Mystery series. The following version of the novel was used to create this study guide: Osman, Richard.

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