I just finished reading The Bullet That Missed, the third novel in the Thursday Murder Club series of mysteries, which features four clever detectives in their 70s: Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim, and Ron. I found a mistake late in the book that really should have been spotted by one of the many editors and copy editors listed in the acknowledgements. It doesn’t affect the plot; it just makes you wonder if you read those sentences correctly.
On page 285 of the hardcover library edition from Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, it says that “Ibrahim drove Elizabeth and Stephen” to the big mansion where the climactic action is all set to go down. On the very next page, it says, “I think Bogdan should probably have been with her, but he had to drive Elizabeth and Stephen up here.”
Tony said he spotted that mistake when he read the book. We are far from the first people to have noticed the issue of the two different drivers of Elizabeth and her husband, Stephen; there’s a thread about it on Goodreads. And that thread says the error was corrected in later editions to make Ibrahim the driver of Ron and his girlfriend, Pauline.
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Tony and I returned from a brief vacation in Savannah, Georgia, on Sunday. My friend Jack recommended I read Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, a nonfiction book about a real-life murder in that beautiful city that is said to be so much better than the so-so movie directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Kevin Spacey and John Cusack. I plan to pick up the book from the library later today.