It’s been a quiet year for the Thursday Murder Club as Elizabeth has been mourning her beloved husband, Stephen. But now Joyce’s daughter Joanna is getting married! All the club members attend this joyous celebration, but at the reception, Nick, the best man seeks out Elizabeth to ask for her help. It seems that someone has placed a bomb under his car and he’d like her help trying to figure out who that could be.
And then he disappears.
Many years ago, Nick and his business partner, Holly, had accepted a Bitcoin payment for some services they’d provided. They had been holding onto the code until its market value made it worthwhile to cash in. Now that it’s worth over $350 million pounds, they have agreed to cash it in and have sought the advice of two other people with regard to the transaction.
The code was kept in a secure facility that they own. Multiple levels of security, including retinal scans are in place just to enter this highly secure “cold storage” facility. And then to obtain the code from their personal vault, both parts of an access code are required, with Nick and Holly each having only one of those parts. With Nick missing, Holly becomes a suspect in his disappearance, because why share even $350 million pounds if one doesn’t have to. But then she is killed!
The two from whom Nick and Holly had asked advice cashing in the Bitcoin, become suspects in Holly’s murder and Nick’s disappearance. And the race is on to try and figure out both Nick and Holly’s codes to access the vault. Meanwhile, Ron is dealing with a family issue, and Ibrahim is still providing therapy to a notorious criminal.
This latest adventure of the Thursday Murder Club was enjoyable and engrossing. With Joyce’s daughter Joanna now married, there is hope for the relationship between mother and daughter to be better too. This was a fun story!
