China News Service, Beijing, February 25 (Reporter Ying Ni) If you sort out the most anticipated novels in 2022, the upcoming super bestseller "Thursday Reasoning Club" must be on many people's book lists.
The book tells the story of four "easy chair detectives" who live together in a senior retirement village in the British countryside. They form a "Thursday Reasoning Club" in the retirement village, and they get together every Thursday to analyze various unsolved unsolved cases.
One day, a serial murder case really happened in the old-age village. They each used their hidden skills to detect the cases that happened around them.
Photo courtesy of Relay Press for the cover collection of multiple national and regional editions of "Thursday Reasoning Club"
The complicated cases in the book left the police with no clues, but the four "easy chair detectives" remained calm and unraveled, not only uncovering the mystery of one case, but also opening up many dusty past events.
Overall, The Reasoning Club Thursday has a bit of Agatha Christie's demeanor, the queen of detective fiction.
The strange combination of the four protagonists Elizabeth, Ibrahim, Ron and Joyce seems to allow readers to see the joint attack of the great detective Poirot and Miss Marple.
The emotions between people displayed in the process of solving the case reveal a strong human touch.
The great power of love everywhere in the book gives all the mysteries in The Thursday Reasoning Club an admirable magnanimity as they unravel.
The book was first published in the UK in September 2020, and continued to occupy the top position in the UK Amazon Books List after its launch, and finally became the best-selling new book in the UK in 2020 with three-month sales.
This hot phenomenon has continued to this day. It is reported that "Thursday Reasoning Club" has occupied the top position of the "Sunday Times" bestseller list for 60 weeks since its launch (29 weeks for the hardcover edition and 31 weeks for the paperback edition).
The book, which has sold 2.57 million copies in the UK so far, has been dubbed a "phenomenal publication" by specialist book data firm Nielsen.
Author Richard Osman (Richard Osman) Photo courtesy of Relay Press
At the same time, "Thursday Reasoning Club" has also achieved staggering good results on a global scale, and has sold copyrights to 43 countries and regions so far.
Among them, the sales of the US version exceeded 100,000 copies within 3 months of its launch, and by the end of 2021, the sales volume exceeded 390,000 copies; the sales of the German version reached 180,000 copies; the book market in Brazil, Japan, Iceland, Sweden, Finland, Portugal and other book markets have also become Super bestseller.
Richard Osman, the author of the book, is a British TV personality who, in addition to hosting popular shows, is also a director, producer and comedian, but his ultimate dream is to be a writer.
The book has won the favor of well-known director Steven Spielberg, and Amblin Entertainment, which he founded, has bought the film and television adaptation rights of the book, and the film and television work of the same name is in production.
It is reported that Relay Press will not only launch the first volume of "Thursday Reasoning Club" in April, but also plan to launch the simplified Chinese version of the second volume of the book by the end of 2022.
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