{"id":7127,"date":"2026-07-03T04:43:53","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T11:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/?p=7127"},"modified":"2026-07-03T04:43:53","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T11:43:53","slug":"robert-thorogood-the-mysterious-affair-of-judith-potts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/robert-thorogood-the-mysterious-affair-of-judith-potts\/","title":{"rendered":"Robert Thorogood: The Mysterious Affair of Judith Potts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marlow Murder Club #5<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>This charming series inhabits the same universe as Richard Osman\u2019s Thursday Murder Club<\/em> books.\u00a0 The books are intelligent, well observed, occasionally funny \u2013 as well as being very clever mysteries.\u00a0 The \u201cMarlow Murder Club\u201d consists of the intellectual, crossword puzzle loving Judith; dogwalker Suzie; and Becks, the wife of the vicar of Marlow (the vicar plays a very small supporting role).\u00a0 The unofficial member of the club is Tanika, an actual police officer, who has come to rely on them.<\/p>\n

As the book opens, series stalwarts Judith and Tanika are undergoing some huge problems which affects the investigation that follows.\u00a0 There\u2019s been a shooting of a famous footballer and while Suzie and Becks are all over it, Judith seems curiously unengaged.\u00a0 Tanika is surreptitiously pushing the women forward and the reason for that shortly becomes clear: she\u2019s has been suspended and replaced by the doltish Brendan who tells the women to stay out of his investigation.<\/p>\n

As the first murder is quickly followed by another, the death of a famous thriller writer, the women are certain the two killings are connected.\u00a0 Meanwhile, Judith is dealing with her own problems.\u00a0 Long ago she was married to a Greek man and lived on Corfu; the man drowned in a boating accident, and his daughter has appeared, telling Judith she knows she killed him.\u00a0 The death has been considered an accident for decades, but Judith is unsettled by the woman\u2019s appearance, and she also seems unsettled about the man\u2019s long ago death.<\/p>\n

Even so, the three women continue to investigate the two killings, making up their traditional murder board in Judith\u2019s library.\u00a0 They unravel layers of connections in their small town between the members of the upper and storied classes, finding fissures in their lives that lead them to a third suspect and a solution to the crimes.<\/p>\n

The books are special for many reasons.\u00a0 The main reason, of course, are the different personalities of the three women, who compliment each other and move the mysteries forward.\u00a0 Judith is the complex, logical thinker; Suzie, the brave and impulsive one; and Becks, the one most grounded in reality and the community as the wife of the local vicar.\u00a0 These are basically smart Nancy Drew stories for grown ups.<\/p>\n

The emotional underpinnings in this story, especially the ones that fill out Judith\u2019s long ago tragedy and the resolution to it, give the book a real resonance.\u00a0 This little Eden, this little perfect investigative unit, has been upended and it\u2019s up to the women of Marlow to restore things to rights.\u00a0 Never fear, dear reader, they do.\u00a0 What a delightful read. —\u00a0Robin Agnew<\/em><\/p>\n

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Marlow Murder Club #5 This charming series inhabits the same universe as Richard Osman\u2019s Thursday Murder Club books.\u00a0 The books are intelligent, well observed, occasionally funny \u2013 as well as being very clever mysteries.\u00a0 The \u201cMarlow Murder Club\u201d consists of the intellectual, crossword puzzle loving Judith; dogwalker Suzie; and Becks, the wife of the vicar … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2498,136,2548,414,2549,1276,2550,1436],"class_list":["post-7127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-amateur-sleuths","tag-british-village","tag-marlow-murder-club","tag-poisoned-pen-press","tag-robert-thorogood","tag-robin-agnew","tag-the-mysterious-affair-of-judith-potts","tag-traditional-detection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7127"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7129,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7127\/revisions\/7129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/auntagathas.com\/aa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}