MYSTERY

The Marlow Murder Club

Poisoned Pen. (Marlow Murder Club, Bk. 1). May 2022. 288p. ISBN 9781728250519. pap. $16.99. M
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At 77, Mrs. Judith Potts is totally satisfied with her life. She lives in a mansion in Marlow, England, and she skinny-dips at night in the Thames. In fact, she’s swimming when she hears her neighbor Stefan Dunwoody cry out in protest, and then a gunshot. Detective Sergeant Tanika Malik and her team call Stefan’s death a suicide, but with no weapon in sight Judith is convinced it must have been murder. She recruits two other women to her team of amateur sleuths: Becks, the local vicar’s wife, who seems unhappy with her life, and could use an outlet; and dog walker Suzie. While the police fail to find any clues to Stefan’s death, the women of the Marlow Murder Club search for suspects. However, Judith’s plan to identify Stefan’s killer to the police doesn’t work out as expected.
VERDICT Fans of Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club will like the amateur sleuths introduced in this puzzle from Thorogood (author of the “Death in Paradise” mysteries, which have been turned into a BBC TV series). While avid mystery readers might recognize the twist, the finale and its grand solution are worthy of Agatha Christie.
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