Robert Thorogood

I think meeting Judith and Susie and the sort of fun they have amongst themselves and figuring out these crimes and also the kind of naughty side of them, the side of them that breaks the rules and goes behind the police's back and breaks into things that they shouldn't and looks at things they shouldn't, really appeals to the side of her that just doesn't get fed with her home life.

While many of the episodes within Marlowe Murder Club are based on Robert Thorogood's Marlowe novels, the more recent series have seen a balance between episodes based on pre-existing novels and original stories.

When you were first cast as Bex, did you turn to Robert's novels or do you view the television series as being its own beast?

Really, I look at the scripts as being their own thing because we're quite different in some ways.

Like many other novels of the cosy mystery variety, this series is set in the Dorset countryside and has an intrepid, curious young woman at its heart.

No episode about Cozy Mysteries would be complete without my mentioning one of my favourite series, The Marlowe Murder Club by Robert Thorogood.

Yes, he who is listed as the creator of Death in Paradise.

As much as I wish it weren't the case, most of the research I have done indicates that the most recent, the fifth novel, The Mysterious Affair of Judith Potts, is the final instalment.

But until I see an official statement from Robert Thorogood or his publishers, I will not give up hope.

The fourth series for TV is currently being filmed.

There are many more, and if you want to find out what I thought about a number of these books, make sure to check out my Cozy Mystery playlist that I will be linking below in the show notes.

The ones who spent too much time with work regret it.

It comes down to love and be loved, and it's being kind to people and community and all the things that we're told every single day, but it's so powerful when this bunch of now retired people looking forward to their, their last chapter on this planet reflect on all of that.

I was in absolute bits by the end of it.

Oh, very good.