Since I enjoyed the Thursday Murder Club so much, I’ve checked if there are other books that could capture that general atmosphere as well; A bunch of old people solving a murder (or two, or more). You know, kinda a Murder She Wrote feel now that I think about it (and yes, I do like waching that series too). Turns out there are a bunch of suggestions that I could check out. The first one suggested is The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood, so that’s the one I decided to read first. And I happen to just have finished it.

So we start off with a main character that’s in her 70s (yay, one criterium fulfilled!). She’s great at creating crypto puzzles for a newspaper and is pretty fit for her age. Fit enough for her to go for a swim in the river she lives next to. When she gets close to her neighbour’s place, she hears him shouting and then a gunshot. Drat, she can’t climb up on the neighbour’s shore since she’s an old woman after all! She has to swim back and then calls the police. Turns out her neighbour’s shot dead! Dun dun dun, a murder mystery’s born! (And that’s the other criterium done!)

During her investigation (of course she’s gonna investigate, can’t leave anything fully to the cops nowadays!) she manages to rope in two more girls into her club. Sometimes they get in pretty darn tight situations, and if that’s not enough, more murders happen during their snooping! I mean, during their investigating! It got more gripping in the second half as they took more risks where they really have to work together. I have to say that I already suspected ‘whodunnit’ when I was around three-fourths into the book, so at least the plot isn’t that overly convoluted. :P

It was nice reading overall, a bit a change of pace here. Ok, ok, still about oldbies solving murders but they’re different oldbies with different backgrounds (and while we’re at it, also different murders), so still a change of pace! Just like with the Thursday Murder Club, this story is happening in the UK in the modern day and age where laptops and mobile phones exist. I like that, I appreciate that there are murder mysteries with a slight Murder She Wrote vibe but totally updated to the modern times. I would say this is another series (I read a sequel is upcoming) that I would like to continue reading.
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