{"id":80802,"date":"2025-08-19T09:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/80802\/"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:07:10","slug":"your-guide-to-the-marlow-murder-club-books-in-order-masterpiece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/80802\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Guide to The Marlow Murder Club Books in Order | Masterpiece"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Marlow Murder Club TV show<\/a> may have just reached Season 2, but author and series creator Robert Thorogood is already several steps ahead\u2014on the page, at least. Thorogood recently spoke to MASTERPIECE about the three delightfully twisty novels already published in his cozy mystery series\u2014with a fourth title coming soon!<\/p>\n

1.The Marlow Murder Club (2021)\"Cover(HQ, 2021)<\/p>\n

Book Summary: When 77-year-old Judith Potts hears a gunshot while swimming in the Thames, she\u2019s certain a murder has taken place\u2014despite the police brushing it off. Determined to find the truth, she teams up with a dog walker and a vicar\u2019s wife to form the Marlow Murder Club. As bodies start piling up, the amateur sleuths realize they\u2019re chasing a serial killer.<\/p>\n

Thorogood: I always wanted [this title] to be the first in a series of books. With my commercial hat on, I\u2019ve always felt, \u201cGosh, what\u2019s the point of coming up with a great book if you can\u2019t continue it?\u201d And I know from my experience with Death in Paradise and from other things I\u2019ve done, that that first book [is essentially] a pilot. \u2026 Book one is sort of \u201cWho are these people? How do they get involved in crime? How do they meet each other?\u201d There\u2019s a shape to the story you\u2019re going to tell.<\/p>\n

2.Death Comes to Marlow (2023)\"Cover(HQ, 2023)<\/p>\n

Book Summary: Amateur sleuth Judith Potts is invited to a festive pre-wedding gathering at a grand Marlow manor. But when the groom-to-be is found crushed in his locked study, the celebration comes to a halt. The police call it suicide, but Judith and her friends Becks and Suzie aren\u2019t convinced. It\u2019s a classic country house mystery\u2014and the Marlow Murder Club is on the case.<\/p>\n

Thorogood: I found book two the hardest to write because it was, \u201cOh, gosh, well, what is a typical Marlow Murder Club story?\u201d It was that \u2018second album\u2019 syndrome. So, I worked quite hard at it trying to make it all fit together, but it\u2019s never easy. \u2026 When I watch [this Season 2 story] on the telly I think, \u201cGosh, that\u2019s a very faithful adaptation.\u201d The book has translated, I think, quite well into [two episodes] of television. It\u2019s pretty faithful. We\u2019ve changed some bits and bobs, but very little.<\/p>\n

3.The Queen of Poisons (2024)\"Cover(Sourcebooks, 2024)<\/p>\n

Book Summary: When Marlow\u2019s affable mayor suddenly dies during a council meeting, the police suspect murder\u2014but the motive and culprit remain a mystery. Judith, Suzie, and Becks are brought in as civilian advisors, free to follow leads (and break rules). Who wanted the mayor dead and why? As the Marlow Murder Club digs deeper, they discover a deadly secret hidden in plain sight.<\/p>\n

Thorogood: There is a fig leaf of truth in these [civilian advisors] in that in Liverpool and a few other big city detective squads, they do have civilian advisors who help with murder cases. \u2026 There\u2019s a real tension when you have amateur sleuths who live outside of that world because the audience knows the police have all of this whiz-bangery they\u2019ve got access to, and the amateur sleuths don\u2019t. And from a writing point of view, and also from a reading point of view, it can be very frustrating when you see both sides sort of working separately from each other. \u2026 It was such a relief to go, \u201cDo you know what? They\u2019re civilian advisors, they can go to the police station. It\u2019s fine.\u201d<\/p>\n

4.Murder on the Marlow Belle (September, 2025)\"Cover(Sourcebooks, September 2025)<\/p>\n

Book Summary: Oliver Beresford vanishes during a pleasure boat party for Marlow\u2019s Amateur Dramatic Society, and his wife turns to Judith Potts for answers. His body soon washes up from the Thames\u2014shot twice. Because of Oliver\u2019s reputation for bullying and making enemies, his death eventually exposes dark secrets within the local drama circle. Judith, Suzie, and Becks must navigate deception and hidden grudges to catch a killer before they strike again.<\/p>\n

Thorogood: No writing is easy. Anyone who can complete a book, I tip my hat to. \u2026 But the one that I smiled the most during is Murder on the Marlow Belle. It\u2019s set in the world of amateur dramatics, and I really enjoyed writing about that, [having done drama at Cambridge University]. And my good friend Duncan [a stage technician from Cambridge] is literally named and described in the book. \u2026 And actually, that caused a bit of a problem because he\u2019s one of the suspects, and Duncan in reality is one of the nicest people in the world. So, I felt a bit of a heel suggesting that he was a murderer. But yeah, doing \u2018am-dram\u2019 really made me smile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Marlow Murder Club TV show may have just reached Season 2, but author and series creator Robert…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[353,49,48,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-80802","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}