Discussing how challenging it is to write the script, however, the screenwriter admitted: \u201cI\u2019d put money on it being the hardest TV to write.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have one hour to kill someone at the start, catch the murderer at the end, reel off the denouement, so that\u2019s 20 pages of script spoken for before you get to the fun stuff.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s hard to get the balance and tone right, the complication of the mystery, the warmth of the characters, make the detectives loveable but still good at their jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n
While Thorogood continues to serve as an executive producer on the show, he stepped back from writing the scripts of the Caribbean crimes after 11 series.<\/p>\n
He has now turned his attention to adapting his Marlow Murder Club<\/a> books for the screen, centring on amateur sleuth Judith Potts and her unlikely band of crime-solving friends in Buckinghamshire.<\/p>\n Asked about writing and producing for the enduring \u201ccosy crime<\/a>\u201d genre, he said: \u201cIn a chaotic real world on fire, it\u2019s lovely to go somewhere for all your vicarious thrills, skullduggery and betrayal, posh people all lying and cheating, in beautiful but confined spaces.\u201d<\/p>\n