{"id":1449,"date":"2025-03-01T16:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T16:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/lisle\/?p=1449"},"modified":"2025-03-01T16:38:52","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T16:38:52","slug":"book-club-the-marlow-murder-club-by-robert-thorogood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/lisle\/2025\/03\/01\/book-club-the-marlow-murder-club-by-robert-thorogood\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Club: &#8220;The Marlow Murder Club&#8221; by Robert Thorogood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April is Murder Mystery Month!<br \/>\nAll readers are welcome to join our informal monthly book club meeting on Wednesday, 4\/30 @ 6pm. This month\u2019s book suggestion is \u201cThe Marlow Murder Club\u201d by Robert Thorogood. As always, there is no required reading to attend the meeting. Please email us at lislefreelibrary@gmail.com if you would like to attend virtually. Copies available at the circulation desk.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span class=\"a-text-bold\">2023 EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE, LILIAN JACKSON BRAUN AWARD<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"a-text-bold\">&#8220;An absolute joy to read. Funny, entertaining, and beautifully written.&#8221; \u2015B. A. Paris,&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\">New York Times<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold\">&nbsp;bestselling author<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"a-text-bold\">A delightfully clever new mystery from creator of BBC One&#8217;s hilarious murder mystery series&nbsp;<\/span><span class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\">Death in Paradise<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Meet Judith: a seventy-seven-year-old whiskey drinking, crossword puzzle author living her best life in a dilapidated mansion on the outskirts of Marlow.<\/p>\n<p>Nothing ever happens here. That is, until Judith hears her neighbor shot while skinny-dipping in the Thames. The local police don&#8217;t believe her story. It&#8217;s an open and shut case, of course. Ha! Stefan can&#8217;t be left for dead like that.<\/p>\n<p>Judith investigates and picks up a crew of sidekicks: Suzie the dogwalker and Becks the vicar&#8217;s wife. Together, they are the Marlow Murder Club.<\/p>\n<p>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\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Robert Thorogood, has turned the Christie-mystery on its head with this ever-so-sly cozy perfect for readers who love Richard Osmond&#8217;s&nbsp;<span class=\"a-text-italic\">Thursday Murder Club and An Elderly Lady is Up to No Good.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April is Murder Mystery Month! All readers are welcome to join our informal monthly book club meeting on Wednesday, 4\/30 @ 6pm. This month\u2019s book suggestion is \u201cThe Marlow Murder Club\u201d by Robert Thorogood. As always, there is no required reading to attend the meeting.&nbsp;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/lisle\/2025\/03\/01\/book-club-the-marlow-murder-club-by-robert-thorogood\/\">&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1450,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-book-club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/lisle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/lisle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/lisle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/lisle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/lisle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/lisle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1451,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/lisle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1449\/revisions\/1451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/lisle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/lisle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/lisle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/libraries.4cls.org\/lisle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}