Bookn' with Friends: "The Marlow Murder Club" by Robert Thorogood

WPL's adult book club will meet at 6:30pm on Monday, February 23 to discuss The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood.  Selected to meet the 2026 Reading Challenge "turned into a TV show," this cozy mystery was first published in the UK in 2021. Seasons 1 and 2 of the televised version are available through the PBS website and app.  Copies of the book are available for check out at the front desk.  From the publisher:

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 whiskey 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.