The biggest novel series in the world, at the moment, is arguably The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman.
The mastermind behind the television game show Pointless ventured into novel writing a few years ago and subsequently became the biggest-selling debut novelist of all time in the UK.
Four books have been produced so far - The Thursday Murder Club, The Man Who Died Twice and The Bullet That Missed, with The Last Devil To Die set to be released in the United Kingdom this week.
Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment subsequently bought the rights to the novel with the scope for turning it into a movie, though it seems production has been postponed due to the ongoing actor and writer strikes in Hollywood.
“It was supposed to be filming now, and of course, it's not because of the strikes," Osman told Chris Evans on Virgin Radio.
When asked if he knew the cast of the movie, he responded: “Well, not now. Because, of course, you know what actors are like. They have windows where they're available. And suddenly the window shuts, so it changes.
“People are still negotiating.”
Osman's first novel sold over a million copies and the two subsequent novels were just as successful.
What is the plot of The Thursday Murder Club?
The official premise of the novel, which will be the same as the movie, reads:
'A group of pensioners (Elizabeth Best; Ron Ritchie; Joyce Meadowcroft; and Ibrahim Arif) set about solving the mystery of the murder of a property developer in the luxurious Cooper's Chase retirement village near the fictitious village of Fairhaven in Kent'
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