I loved the Marlow Murder Club and loved Death Comes to Marlow. This is an highly entertaining series that plays homage to the puzzles of the Golden Age making them fresh and challenging you to find a solution.
This is a real locked-room mystery that means that there's a body in a locked room and no open door or windows.
I was happy to catch up with the women who are at the core of this story: Judith the eccentric and very clever old lady who creates crosswords and is able to put together the clues, Stephanie the dog walker who can be like a bull in a china store but is always able to add her bit to the solution, Beck the overworked stay-at-home vicar wife with an eidetic memory and a sort of Sherlock Holmes way of connecting the dots.
They're a groups of friends from different social background but they work well together and are able to solve the puzzles because they join forces.
There's another woman in this stories: Tanika, the DS who must juggle with works-a father with memory problems-a DI who's back and can't help to patronize her-investigation.
Each woman is a indispensable to make this story work and each of them is well developed and intriguing.
The mystery is solid and kept me turning pages and guessing.
This is an excellent series and, even if the title reminds Thursday Murder Club, they're completely different and both high level series.
I hope a lot of people will read it.
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher for this arc, all opinions are mine