Jonah Lomu’s Thursday Murder Club cameo - author Richard Osman explains

Television funnyman turned Thursday Murder Club novelist Richard Osman’s We Solve Murders releases here on September 24. He talks to Kim Knight about a new book, new characters and, well, New Zealand. There is a theory that New Zealanders subconsciously seek out the letter “Z”.

When it appears on the printed page our eyes, apparently, leap to the familiar. Are we there yet? Can the world see us now? In the fourth book of the wildly popular Thursday Murder Club series, we are definitely there. Page 342: “There was a rugby union player, Jonah Lomu , a New Zealand Tongan, who rewrote the rules of the game, because of his size and speed.



No one had seen anything like him before. This hulk, this oversized tank, who moved with such grace and pace.”.