Book #71 |
Book: The Marlow Murder Club | Author: Robert Thorogood | |
| Source: Library loan Format: Kindle |
Pages: 352 | Duration: 08/13/25 – 08/14/25 (2 days) | |
| Rating: ★★★★☆ | Genres: fiction, mystery, crime, thriller | ||
| 📕10-word summary: Three women help solve one murder that turns into three. 🖌6-word review: Entertaining read. Interesting characters. Improbable ending. |
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| 💭A favorite quote: “Marry in haste, repent at leisure.” | |||
| 🎓Some new-to-me words: bulrushes, RNLI, aspidistra, punt, prow, weir, gilet, truncheon, peckish, cygnets, probity, moreish, Portakabin, dopatta, bathos, repechage, atavistic, subaltern, stentorian | |||
| Description:* Judith Potts is 77 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.*From goodreads.com’s synopsis. | |||
| Thoughts: This was a good story and one that made me wish I had ½-star ratings, as I would have given it a 4.5 instead of a 4. What kept me from giving it 5 stars was the ending, which was an over-the-top rescue scene whose one-word “feel” to me would be “swashbuckling.” There were just too many improbable things that the “murder club” members had to overcome to save their mate. One thing that I thought was weird was that the 3 women that helped solve this murder mystery never once referred to themselves (nor did anyone else refer to them) as a “club” like in The Thursday Murder Club. I checked the publication date of that book to see if it preceded this one, thinking perhaps this book put “club” in its title to ride the coattails of that one’s success if it was published subsequently. And it was. Interestingly, in my review of The Thursday Murder Club, I said the same thing about wishing I had ½-star ratings. All that aside, I’d definitely recommend this book and would consider making it a future Mostly Social Book Club book. OH! Lest I forget, this book used “conspiratorial” three times. Ugh. | |||
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