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A review by oashackelford
Death Comes to Marlow by Robert Thorogood
4.0
Judith Potts, amateur detective and crossword setter, solved a few murders last year and apparently has gained some local fame for it. One morning she receives a phone call from a soon-to-be victim,
Sir Peter Bailey, claiming that he is going to be murdered and would she please come to his pre-wedding party and figure out who is responsible. The only problem is that everyone who would have a motive to kill Bailey also has an airtight alibi. He was also found in a locked room with the only key to that room in his pocket.
I definitely did not work this one out before the end of the book. I think I had some of it right, but I definitely could not work out how he was killed, and so that was really fun to be wrong a little bit. I think that this was a fun mystery, it just wasn't gripping. To be honest, I don't think that these books are meant to be gripping. I think that they are more meant to be fun and twisty, and it definitely delivered on that aspect, but I had a hard time coming back to finish the book when I had been away from it for a while.
Sir Peter Bailey, claiming that he is going to be murdered and would she please come to his pre-wedding party and figure out who is responsible. The only problem is that everyone who would have a motive to kill Bailey also has an airtight alibi. He was also found in a locked room with the only key to that room in his pocket.
I definitely did not work this one out before the end of the book. I think I had some of it right, but I definitely could not work out how he was killed, and so that was really fun to be wrong a little bit. I think that this was a fun mystery, it just wasn't gripping. To be honest, I don't think that these books are meant to be gripping. I think that they are more meant to be fun and twisty, and it definitely delivered on that aspect, but I had a hard time coming back to finish the book when I had been away from it for a while.