MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR_MARLOW M5 PB

*The Number 2 Sunday Times bestselling author* NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES starring Samantha Bond, Jo Martin, and Cara Horgan. Season 3 coming in 2026! 'Another joyfully ingenious caper from the master of the game, with one of the most satisfying endings I've read in a long time' Louise Candlish, Sunday Times bestselling author 'Smart, funny, and packed with twists, friendship, and of course crosswords' Reader review---------- 'An entertaining, funny, exhilarating, complex, fabulous novel' Reader review---------- 'This series just gets better and better' Reader review---------- * * * * A killer is on the loose. The bodies are piling up. And Judith is hiding a deadly secret ... Someone from Judith's past has turned up in Marlow and is stirring up trouble. With all the murders that the Marlow Murder Club have had to solve and her work setting crosswords, Judith's been too busy to give her old life much thought. But now it's knocking on her door and won't go away. On top of that, Marlow's celebrities are getting murdered! When a footballer and a thriller writer are found dead, Judith, Suzie, and Becks must untangle a web of scandal to find the killer. But with Judith keeping secrets, the Marlow Murder Club find themselves drifting apart. The pressure is on in more ways than one ... Can they find the killer and help Judith in time, or could this be the end of the Marlow Murder Club? * * * * 'The best thing since Jerome K Jerome!' Orlando Murrin, author of Knife Skills for Beginners 'An unputdownable page-turner ... and a plot so ingenious it kept me guessing until the very end' Matt Dunn 'Full of unexpected twists and turns ... we will be enjoying the mysteries of Robert Thorogood for many years to come' Daily Mail

Robert Thorogood is the Sunday Timesand USA Todaybestselling author of The Marlow Murder Clubmystery novels, which have been adapted into a major TV series starring Samantha Bond as Judith Potts. Robert is also the creator of the hit BBC One TV series Death in Paradise, he has co-created the spin-off shows, Beyond Paradise and Return to Paradise, and has written a series of Death in Paradise novels featuring DI Richard Poole. When Robert was ten 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, children and two whippets called Wally and Evie. Follow him on Bluesky @robthor.bsky.social and Instagram @robertthorogoodwriter