Richard Osman Audiobooks

Richard Osman, born in 1970, is an English television presenter, producer and novelist – a rare case of two full careers running at once. He created and co-presented the BBC One quiz show Pointless, has presented Two Tribes and Richard Osman’s House of Games, and is a fixture of British panel shows from Would I Lie to You? to Have I Got News for You and Taskmaster. Behind the camera, he worked at Hat Trick Productions before becoming creative director of Endemol UK, producing shows including Deal or No Deal.

Then came the second act: the Thursday Murder Club mystery novels, best-sellers that turned a familiar television face into one of the country’s most popular crime writers. It is an unusual route into fiction, but the results speak for themselves.

Crime with warmth and wit is Osman’s territory, and it translates beautifully to audio – these are mysteries built on voice, banter and character rather than gore. The Thursday Murder Club sequence runs deep on our shelves: The Man Who Died Twice, The Bullet That Missed, The Last Devil to Die and The Impossible Fortune are all here, and they reward being taken in order as the ensemble beds in. We Solve Murders and We Chase Shadows broaden the picture beyond the club for listeners who have exhausted the backlist. Ideal commute listening: clever enough to satisfy, kind enough to relax into.