The Marlow Murder Club is the start of a new series of murder mystery novels. This time the amateur detectives are women of a certain age. Written by Robert Thorogood, a British screen writer and novelist. His latest excellent television series is Death In Paradise.
This is the start of a delightful relationship between between Judith Potts, a single woman who has recently inherited her wonderfully eclectic and messy home from an aunt, along with two women from the small English town of Marlow, Suzie, a professional dog walker and Becks, the vicar's wife.
In this first novel of the series the scene is set as we meet Judith for the first time. She has run away from something which is never revealed. She is living in this cluttered mansion, writing crossword puzzles and drinking whiskey and surprisingly swimming in the all together down the Thames.
One day while swimming she hears a gun shot from the shore near her neighbor's house. She calls out but there is no answer. She swims home and calls the police. They take her concerns with a grain of salt, do an cursory investigation and find nothing. Judith is not convinced they are correct, so she investigates herself and finds clues to the death of her neighbor. From there she meets her fellow detective friends and they solve the crime.
So entertaining between the interesting characters and the small town of Marlow this is a setting for a wonderful series of mysteries for one to follow and try to solve.
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