Movies you've seen recently (Part 2)

[Mahaloth]

I didn’t see the movie, but really disliked the book. I started a whole thread about it and how I felt the mystery solution was cheap.

How important is it that a mystery book solution be solvable by the reader?

I am reading the Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman and I will not spoil* the book, but I am very near the end and instead of the “solution” being something that a series of clues indicated, it appears to be something that was not figure-out-able by the reader along the way. I mean, outside wild guesses, the solution/resolution appears to be something that no reader would make a reasonable guess at even if the reader wrote down every name and detail that came out. It got me thinking. Is this…