Ron then goes to Ryan’s house, pretending to be a plumber sent by the housing association. Meanwhile, Elizabeth has a plan regarding Ryan and asks her friend Bogdan to acquire come cocaine. Joyce obliges, tells Siobhan what happened and invites her to tea.

When Douglas and Poppy are taken to be questioned by Sue and Lance, Joyce finds a note in her pocket from Poppy asking Joyce to call her mother, Siobhan, along with a phone number. Poppy is shaken up from killing someone, and Elizabeth and Joyce try to comfort her. Sue and Lance from MI5 arrive to clean up the scene. Soon after, an intruder tries to shoot Douglas, but Poppy kills the intruder. Douglas wants Elizabeth’s help in keeping a look-out for possible threats.Įlizabeth agrees to help in exchange for information on Ryan Baird, and Poppy soon gives her the file on him. He’s hiding out in Coopers Chase until he can escape to Antwerp, sell the diamonds and disappear. However, there’s insufficient evidence to charge him.ĭouglas tells Elizabeth that he needs her help since he stole 20M in diamonds from Martin Lomax, a man who works as a middle-man for various crime organizations (like drug lords, mafiosos, warlords, etcetera). Officers Donna and Chris determine that the perpetrator is Ryan Baird, a local teenager who works with a drug dealer they’ve been trying to build a case against, Connie Johnson. Meanwhile, while Ibrahim is out in town, he gets randomly attacked with his phone stolen, and he’s hospitalized.

He’s still active in MI5, and he’s accompanied by his handler, Penny, who is young and inexperienced. Elizabeth shows up at the proposed and finds her ex-husband Douglas, there. In Part I, Elizabeth is revealed to be a former MI5 (British intelligence) agent, and she receives a letter from a “Marcus Carmichael”, a fictional person whose death she once faked as part of her work for MI5, asking to meet. (This book picks up very soon after the previous novel ends with the same main characters - Elizabeth, Joyce, Ritchie and Ibrahim - at the Coopers Chase retirement community.) She then kept working with Elizabeth to try to uncover the location of the diamonds.

It’s eventually revealed that he stole them with help from Sue, his contact at MI5 who he was romantically involved with. The one-paragraph version: the Thursday Murder Club gets involved in a new case as Elizabeth’s ex-husband, Douglas (a MI5 agent), shows up asking for help since he stole 20M in diamonds and is in hiding.

The man who died twice series