The murder mystery genre is one of my favourites, and I am a big fan of Roberts writing both in TV and literature. So I was was eager to read this, an I loved it. A great set of characters and a storyline to match, I couldn’t put this down!.

The Marlow Murder Club returns and the puzzle is harder than before.

All get invited to the wedding that everyone wants to attend in Marlow, Sir Peter Bailey is due to get married the next day but never gets to see a drop of champange as he dies in accident during the party. In true who-dun-it fashion he dies in a locked room under a cabinet. Police misdiss as an accident but the ladies feel otherwise.

I really enjoyed this on a lazy weekend, interesting charactors, a few plot twists but I did feel it was predictable in the end. It did not take from the joy of getting there and seeing how the Marlow Club get to their own conclusions.

Roll on to the next adventure!

I enjoyed the previous book in this series and I was excited to see what this band of amateur detectives would dig up on another case. These books are cosy mysteries set in the beautiful Buckinghamshire town of Marlow, which I have been to and would love to revisit at some point. Walking around it in these books has proved to be great fun!

Judith, Suzie and Becky have had a relaxing time in the sleepy town of Marlow, since all the excitement of a string of murders the previous year. Wealthy local man Sir Peter Bailey is about to get married to his nurse Jenny and he’s throwing a party to celebrate. During the party, a loud crash rings out and Peter is discovered to have been tragically killed by an apparent fallen cabinet. Judith and her friends suspect that something is amiss and that this couldn’t have been an accident. But did anyone want Peter dead?

I really like the humour in these books. Like Osman’s Thursday Murder Club series, it is very British, so I’m not sure how well it would translate in other countries. However, it has a certain quirky charm that I think a lot of readers would enjoy. I think I would have liked a little more comedy though!

Judith and Becky both tend to give lengthy explanations of their thought patterns. This can get a little irritating and I definitely found myself asking them to get to the point faster than they did. I’m not sure why but I did find Judith more annoying in this book than in the first one. She seemed to be a bit of an interfering busy-body rather than a genuinely curious old lady, as she came across before. I still enjoyed her character but her flaws definitely showed up more clearly.

Becks is a typically kind, caring housewife with an incessant need to look after people and ensure that they’re OK. She immediately jumps into mum mode as Jenny grieves her fiance and I thought that this was very true to her character. Judith and Suzie start to get suspicious of Becks’ behaviour at a certain point in the book and it had me worried that she might be involved in some unsavoury business. Thorogood is a great at presenting multiple leads and I was certainly left with a fair bit to figure out throughout the narrative.

There are several points in the book where our male author makes reference to the fact that women are overlooked or discriminated against by men. It is unusual to see this mentioned multiple times in a book written by a man because it’s not assumed that it’s an issue that many men think about. Although these comments were all present at appropriate times, I don’t know whether it’s possible for the author to really understand the full weight of what he’s saying in lines like this. The story would have been the same without these lines, so I’m not sure he needed to comment on women’s experiences for the sake of the book.

Death Comes To Marlow is a fun, twisty sequel to The Marlow Murder Club. However, I think the conclusion was pretty farfetched in this one. I have also had my fill of Judith now, so I’m not confident I’ll pick up any future books in the series. However, fans of Richard Osman will almost certainly enjoy this lesser known, small town Britain series of cosy mysteries!

So, I enjoyed the first book in this series, and have been looking forward to reading the second. In the first one, I liked the characters and setting, but found the murder a little easy to solve. In this one, I liked the characters slightly less and again found the solution to the murder fairly obvious, which was a bit of a shame. I can't quite put my finger on what wasn't right this time, but I still enjoyed it enough that I would read more. This is very definitely in the group of books looking to capitalise on the success of Richard Osman's series - and as such it's one of the better series that I've read so far.

I'm a big fan of the cosy mystery genre and particularly enjoy books from Robert Thorogood. I find his writing more accessible and gentle than some others. I love the dynamic between the main characters and would definitely recommend this book to others.

4 stars!

Thank you to Netgalley for providing a copy to review.

I really enjoyed reading this! I absolutely adores the first book in this series, The Marlow Murder Club. Whilst in the same vein as Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club books, I just enjoyed the characters in Thorogood’s novel - they’re all so different, each with their own quirks, wild personality traits, and at different life stages and backgrounds. We return to the same loveable characters in Death Comes to Marlow, Judith still loves swimming in the Thames and solving crosswords, Becks is as self-conscious and middle-class as ever, and dog-walker Suzie even has her own radio show. The best part about this series is the endearing cast of characters and the utterly mad and often times infuriating list of suspects we’re introduced to.

This is a locked room mystery, with an Agatha Christie style twist and explanation. Though I found elements of the plot fairly predictable at times, I still had a fun time following these three friends and their adventures in Marlow.

An entertaining cosy closed room detective. Was it the son, the daughter, the ex-wife, the fiancee, the gardener or someone else completely different? Whichever, Sir Peter is dead, apparently squashed by a large bookcase falling on him in his locked study. Our three indomitable senior heroines are on the case ably abetted by detective Tanika who is inclined to believe their theory of murder whilst her seniors, not at all betters, are happy with accident - she is, after all, a determined bright lady detective whilst they are....not. Some neat red herrings, lots of banter, some fun, some rather nasty characters and a good ending. Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for an advance copy.

This is the second Marlow book i have enjoyed. Although this book revolves around the death of Sir Peter on the eve of his wedding it’s not all doom and gloom, there are lots of laughs such as Judith’s swimming. Although the police think this was an accident our three sleuths, Judith, Becks and Suzie aren’t convinced and start to dig deeper. The pace keeps you wanting to read on and we enjoy plenty of twists and turns before the mystery is solved.

The girls of the Marlow Murder Club are back in town. Not ones for letting the fame of the previous year's success go to their heads (well not completely anyway) they are still friends, still fun, still nosy, still naked swimming and still solving murders. A wonderful whodunit full of fabulous characters that you can't help care about and a mystery to solve that kept me guessing until the end. Thanks to Netgalley, Robert Thorogood and HQ for the ARC.

A fun return to the cosy and slightly quirky community in Marlow. I enjoy a murder mystery, but what kept me interested in Thorogood's novel was the developing relationship between the three very different women who investigate the events.

This was super cosy and the who and why was very clear to me from the beginning, which did dull my interest a bit.

I'm not sure what it was about this one but I didn't enjoy it quite as much as the first. I remember laughing a few times in the first book and I found the development of the characters interesting but I didn't laugh in this one and the characters seemed more stagnant, perhaps with exception of Becks.

Yeah, it was okay.

So I've decided I really want to be Judith when I grow up, what a great character she is.
Judith lives in Marlow and goes skinny dipping every day, she also wears a Cape and solves murders along with her 2 friends Suze and Becks.
This was a great cosy crime and it left me going back and forth trying to figure out who the murderer actually was.
Plenty of laugh out loud moments and capers and the audio was just brilliant.

I’d like to thank NetGalley for approving me for an ARC of this book. I hadn't read the first instalment of this book and to be honest but actually I think this book really works as a stand alone book as I didn't feel like I missed out on any previous story.

We begin with a murder at a party, Sir Peter has been crushed to death in his study the day before his wedding. The police rule it as an accident but luckily for Sir Peter, the Marlow Murder Club are there to help solve the mystery and find his killer. Could it be his son who he was seen arguing with before his death? His daughter who stands to inherit nothing despite being the eldest? Or his gardener that he has a long-running feud?

This book reminded me of The Thursday Murder Club with the witty style and how the characters bring their own character to the group. Our three musketeers, each of them bringing their own talents to the group. We have our leading lady Judith who is the brains behind the operation and has a canny way of retrieving information. Next up is Becks whose knowledge of ladies' footwear and culinary skills come in handy but she seems to be hiding her own little secret. Finally, we have Suzie who might not always be on the same wavelength as her companions but she is quick thinking in an emergency. These ladies soon find them involved in solving the case, proving Sir Peter was in fact murdered.

I found this book fast-paced and highly entertaining. The way the ladies operated and tried to solve the murder was executed brilliantly and I even liked Tanika’s involvement in the story, they seem to have struck up a great friendship with the detective. From a locked room mystery to cryptic crossword clues, red herrings galore and fun plot twists, this book has it all to make it the perfect cosy crime read.

I loved this book and I think that I might have to go back to read the first one, I do hope there is another instalment of this series.

A very entertaining book which opens with Judith having an unfortunate incident with a swan which leads to her receiving an invitation to the engagement drinks party being given by Sir Peter Bailey, who she has never met. She rounds up her dog-walking friend and finds the other member of the Marlow Murder Club gang already at the party as her husband will be marrying the happy couple the next day. The son, who was on bad terms with his father arrives with a flourish in his sports car and his father and his fiance are both very upset by his arrival and disappear into the house. A short time later there is a very loud crash and the body of Sir Peter is found under a large piece of furniture in a locked room. Was it an accident or was it murder?

I thoroughly enjoyed the book and was kept guessing to the very end. I would certainly read another in the Marlow Murder Club series if one is written.

I loved the first book in the series and it was great catching up with Judith, Becks and Suzie again. As the three set about solving a murder, there is lots of twists and turns, loveable and not so loveable characters and a camaraderie between our three main characters and also Tamika, who I was happy to see being more forward. I love their easy friendship and funny moments plus an update into their personal lives. This is a cosy mystery full of heart.

I loved this book very much my kind of read I love a cozy whodunit read as I've grown up reading watching and enjoying murder mysteries,
The characters are fun especially the vicars wife, it's similar to Richard Osmans books with Agatha Christie twists and turns
A definite reread , fun and a highly recommended share

I was so eager to read the second instalment in the Marlow Murder Club series as I had loved the first. Huge thanks to the publisher for the opportunity to read and review this fabulous book!

We're once again on the prowl with Judith - who I would love to meet, by the way, preferably not in the Thames! Along with Suzie and Becks, her faithful companions, she sets out on another wonderful adventure that isn't quite what it seems. Judith and the gang are invited to the wedding of the year, the betrothal of Sir Peter Bailey and his much younger fiance, Jenny, but things take a nasty turn when Sir Peter is found dead in his study, apparently crushed by a falling cabinet.

But Judith smells a rat and something doesn't sit right with her. Hellbent on sniffing out the rat or rats, she embarks upon another intriguing and mystifying crusade to figure out whodunnit and why. With twists and turns galore, this book is for you if you love a good cosy mystery. Robert writes with flair, fun and frivolity and I can't wait for the next one!

Ever since I had listened to the first volume, I'd been waiting for the sequel, and here it was.
I really enjoyed the characters, the way they interact, as well as the plot. I especially like the connection to crosswords, even though solving them is beyond me, not being a native speaker, and not having the cultural background needed.
The denouement was a little tricky, however, and seemed quite complicated, but It could be possible, I guess. At least it surprised me to find out who the culprit was, and I'll definitely read the next instalment if there'll be one.
I'd like to thank Harper Collins and Netgalley for my review copy!

An enjoyable sequel, it was fun to be back with the Marlow murder club. It was a twisty, fast paced journey with many laughs out loud moments.

Thank you to the author, publisher and NetGalley UK for the free ebook in exchange for an honest review.

I did not enjoy this book as much as the first one, but it was a pleasant, entertaining read. I was also happy to discovered that I guessed the killer!