The Marlow Murder Club

tags: mystery 

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To solve an impossible murder, you need an impossible hero…

Judith Potts is seventy-seven years old and blissfully happy. She lives on her own in a faded mansion just outside Marlow, there’s no man in her life to tell her what to do or how much whisky to drink, and to keep herself busy she sets crosswords for The Times newspaper.

One evening, while out swimming in the Thames, Judith witnesses a brutal murder. The local police don’t believe her story, so she decides to investigate for herself, and is soon joined in her quest by Suzie, a salt-of-the-earth dog-walker, and Becks, the prim and proper wife of the local Vicar. Together, they are the Marlow Murder Club.

When another body turns up, they realise they have a real-life serial killer on their hands. And the puzzle they set out to solve has become a trap from which they might never escape.

The novel is a new cozy murder mystery series set in England with 3 female amateur sleuths solving murders. It is a less entertaining parroting of The Thursday Murder Club. I find the story and characters too contrived and blah. I was able to guess the murderer/s early on. And the motive, hint: Strangers On A Train, a brilliantly written murder mystery.

Sorry Mr. Thorogood, but I regret to say, I have to take a pass on the future installments. Mr. Thorogood is the creator of the popular British telly series Death In Paradise which I have never seen. I know what it is about but for some reason, I was never interested in the series.