Detective fiction

Subgenre of crime and mystery fiction

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2025 Richard Osman plans to release a fifth book in his existing series.
2024 Coles was a contestant on the 2024 series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!, finishing in third place.
December 2024 Matthew Lewis was cast as Canon Clement for the television adaptation of Coles's novel.
November 8 2024 Richard Osman is set to appear as a guest panellist on 'Have I Got News For You' aired on BBC One.
September 2024 Richard Osman published We Solve Murders, the first book in a new series.
September 21 2024 Richard Osman is scheduled to be a guest on 'Saturday Kitchen' aired on BBC One.
June 2024 The first of the three additional Canon Clement books, titled Murder at the Monastery, was released.
May 17 2024 Coles was featured on the podcast Rosebud with Gyles Brandreth.
March 2024 Hulu cancels 'Death and Other Details' after one season.
January 16 2024 The television series 'Death and Other Details' premiered on the streaming platform Hulu, marking its first public release.
2023 Coles signed a deal with W&N to write three additional Canon Clement books.
2023 Richard Osman released his fourth novel, The Last Devil To Die, which reached number one on the New York Times Best Seller list.
November 2023 Osman began hosting a podcast titled The Rest Is Entertainment with Marina Hyde.
June 2023 Coles revealed that he was in a relationship with actor Richard Cant.
June 8 2023 The sequel to Coles's debut mystery novel, A Death In The Parish, was published.
April 21 2023 Richard Osman appeared as a guest panellist on 'Have I Got News For You' aired on BBC One.
March 22 2023 The Guardian reported that Coles was disappointed to be leaving the BBC Radio 4 Saturday Live programme due to its relocation to Cardiff.
2022 Murder Before Evensong was optioned for a television adaptation, with Coles serving as an executive producer.
2022 Richard Osman published his third novel, The Bullet That Missed.
December 28 2022 Richard Osman participated as a celebrity contestant on the 'Celebrity Antiques Road Trip' aired on BBC Two.
December 3 2022 Richard Osman married British actress Ingrid Oliver, whom he met when she was a contestant on 'Richard Osman's House Of Games'.
November 7 2022 Coles guest-hosted Channel 4's game show Countdown as part of its 40th-anniversary celebrations.
September 18 2022 Richard Osman appeared as himself on the BBC One show 'Saturday Kitchen'.
August 2022 Coles appeared in the Channel 4 documentary Good Grief, exploring how people cope with bereavement.
June 2022 Coles's debut mystery novel, Murder Before Evensong, was released, marking the beginning of a series about Canon Daniel Clement.
June 10 2022 Richard Osman appeared as himself on the BBC One show 'Who Do You Think You Are?'.
June 9 2022 On June 9, 2022, Richard Osman appeared on the BBC's Who Do You Think You Are?, where he uncovered that a distant relative had been involved in a celebrated Victorian murder case.
May 2022 Coles moved to Friston, East Sussex, to be closer to his friend and former manager Lorna Gradden.
April 2022 Coles announced his retirement from parish duties due to the Church of England's stance on inclusivity.
April 2022 Coles retired as vicar of Finedon on Low Sunday.
April 8 2022 Osman announced he would be leaving Pointless after 1,300 episodes across 30 series, to focus more on his writing.
2021 By March 2021, The Thursday Murder Club had sold over one million copies in the UK.
2021 Richard Osman released his second novel, The Man Who Died Twice.
December 2021 Coles won the edition of Celebrity Masterchef.
December 2021 Richard Osman was the guest for BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, where he shared his music choices, including 'American Boy' by Estelle with Kanye West and 'A Little Respect' by Erasure, with his favorite song being 'You Can't Stop the Beat' from the cast of Hairspray.
January 2021 Coles appeared in an episode of the BBC Four series Britain's Lost Masterpieces, discussing the story of the Magi.
2020 The Thursday Murder Club sold 45,000 UK hardback copies in the first three days after its publication.
2020 Richard Osman left his position at Endemol.
December 2020 Coles was featured in the BBC series Winter Walks, discussing the importance of silence, retreat, and contemplation.
September 3 2020 Richard Osman's debut crime novel, The Thursday Murder Club, was published.
August 2020 Richard Osman confirmed that Steven Spielberg had acquired the film rights to The Thursday Murder Club.
2019 Coles was captain of a team from the University of Leeds who were series champions on the BBC's Christmas University Challenge.
2019 Richard Coles was appointed as the Honorary Chaplain of the Worshipful Company of Leathersellers.
2019 Viking Press, a subsidiary of Penguin Random House, acquired the rights to Richard Osman's debut novel, The Thursday Murder Club, and another novel for a seven-figure sum in a 10-publisher auction.
December 2019 David Coles died from Alcoholic liver disease, as stated by Richard Coles in 2024.
2018 Richard Osman presented Re-Play 2018 with Richard Osman on ITV, a one-off programme.
2017 Richard Osman published 'The World Cup Of Everything: Bringing the Fun Home'.
2017 Richard Osman was the co-presenter for Channel 4's Alternative Election Night, a one-off programme.
2017 Osman began hosting his own show, Richard Osman's House of Games.

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