Solving murder is a Pierce of cake...

Hotly-anticipated film adaptation is dead good

- BY LAUREN MORRIS

FROM Agatha Christie to Anthony Horowitz, cosy crime has steadily become a huge market.

There's nothing quite like a cup of tea, a slice of cake and a beautiful countryside vista... with a side of murder.

That sums up the highly anticipated adaptation of Richard Osman's The Thursday Murder Club in a nutshell - when you throw in four elderly amateur detectives and dodgy property developers.

Plus a few emotional support llamas, which you may need yourself by the end.

Based on the Pointless host's hit novel, the film follows four pensioners living in the idyllic Cooper's Chase retirement village, passing the time by digging up cold cases to solve.

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But when a developer who co-owns Cooper's Chase is murdered just as his business partner plans to bulldoze the property, they have a case that's close to home on their hands.