Published Sep 17, 2026, 7:30 PM EDT
Makuochi Echebiri is a News Writer for Collider. He has been interested in creative writing from as far back as high school, and he would consume pretty much anything that’s film or TV. However, his truest love lies in the presence of historical epics and thrillers.
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Being able to tell a story on paper is an art form. Many authors live and pass on without seeing what their tales might look like in live-action. Others, however, enjoy that special privilege and sometimes more than once. Critically acclaimed author, George R.R. Martin, for instance, has seen several of his written works adapted on-screen from his high fantasy book series, A Song of Ice and Fire, which birthed Game of Thrones. To House of the Dragon and **the Emmy-winning series, **A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms, which were both inspired by other written texts set in the same universe. Controversial author, J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels have inspired a catalog of films and are currently the basis of a new HBO series.
Book-to-screen adaptations will almost certainly continue, and studios and streaming services are looking for new texts to mine. Richard Osman, the best-selling author behind last year’s star-studded The Thursday Night Murder Club, saw his work make the jump from page to screen. The film kept the cozy murder-mystery vibes intact under the watchful eye of director Chris Columbus. The Netflix film adaptation of Osman’s debut novel, premiered on the streamer last August with an impressive ensemble including Helen Mirren, Pierce Brosnan, Ben Kingsley, Celia Imrie, David Tennant and Jonathan Pryce. Now, following the success of The Thursday Murder Club, Osman and Netflix are once again teaming up to repeat the trick, except this time, their adventure will not be capped by a two-hour runtime.
The Thursday Murder Club serves as a debut novel for Osman and, speaking on The One Show recently, via Radio Times, the author and broadcaster, while remaining guarded on specifics, confirmed that a second of his crime novels is heading to Netflix. According to Osman, We Solve Murders is now in development as a series on the streaming service. When quizzed outright regarding an adaptation, the guardrails went up somewhat:
“Well, I can’t say. But yes. Certainly that’s what we’re up to at the moment with our friends at Netflix. That’ll be very exciting.”
Four action series. One of them is built around exactly the way you handle pressure, people, and a room that has just gone very quiet. Here is where you would survive the trilogy, and probably headline it.
You are precision with a grudge. You don’t posture, you don’t escalate, and you don’t warn anybody twice. That is exactly why the people who know you are so careful never to be the reason you start.
You understand the thing the whole franchise is secretly about: the cars are spectacular, but the crew is the point. You collect people, you keep them, and you’d drive through a building for any one of them.
You over-prepare and then take the dangerous part yourself anyway. It looks like control, but it’s really responsibility. You have never worked out how to ask somebody else to carry the risk.
You are not the most trained person in the building, the best equipped, or the one anybody would have picked. You are simply the one still standing at the end, which turns out to be the only qualification that matters.
While The Thursday Murder Club saw four quirky residents at a peaceful English retirement village who examined unsolved cold cases for fun before one local brought things to reality, We Solve Murders will tow the same line of crime. The book follows Amy Wheeler, a private security operative, and her father-in-law Steve Wheeler, a retired detective, who team up after Amy is seemingly framed while protecting a bestselling author, Rosie D’Antario on a private island. As the mystery deepens around Amy, the trio embark on an international quest to outrun the killers and solve a global conspiracy. We Solve Murders was published in 2024 and is separate from the Thursday Murder Club books. Osman is poised to have a hands-on role when the proposed Netflix series comes around, responding to the question of involvement saying: “Yes, I think so.” The author goes on to tease what the series might potentially look like, and it sounds like a globe-trotting adventure:
“The lovely thing is, it’s all set in these beautiful places, like the first book. We Solve Murders, you’re in St Lucia, you’re in the south of Ireland. They’re really beautiful places, so it’s going to look amazing, I’ll say that.”
Netflix is yet to formally confirm the project, and We Solve Murders remains in development.
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