Episode Description:
Author, screenwriter, and producer Robert Thorogood joins the PBS Books Readers Club to discuss the murder-mystery book The Marlow Murder Club, soon to be a Masterpiece drama series on PBS
To solve an impossible murder, you need an impossible hero…
The Marlow Murder Club follows the adventures of unlikely amateur sleuth Judith Potts, a crossword puzzle setter living happily on her own in the quaint town of Marlow.
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 realize 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…
Readers will be excited to pair this novel with the October 27, 2024 Masterpiece premiere of The Marlow Murder Club on PBS. The thrilling, four-part series stars Samantha Bond (Downton Abby) as Judith Potts, who is joined by Jo Martin, Cara Horgan and Natalie Dew as Suzie, Becks, and DS Tanika Malik. The Marlow Murder Club series airs Sundays on PBS beginning October 27, 2024, with the full season available in PBS Passport on October 27, 2024.
Author and writer Robert Thorogood said: “After over a decade of working on Death in Paradise, I’m thrilled to be creating a brand-new murder mystery series for TV. I can’t wait for audiences to join Judith, Becks and Suzie on their adventures as they solve a series of fiendishly puzzling murders.”
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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…
Guest Biography:
Robert Thorogood
Robert Thorogood is an author, screenwriter, producer, and the creator of the hit BBC One TV series Death In Paradise. He was born in Colchester, Essex, in 1972. When he was 10-years old, he read his first proper novel – Agatha Christie’s Peril at End House – and he’s been in love with the genre ever since. He now lives in Marlow in Buckinghamshire with his wife and children.
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