Happy Friday bookish people! I hope you’re all having a lovely day. Today, I am bringing you my review for the fifth book in the Marlow Murder Club series by Robert Thorogood – The Mysterious Affair of Judith Potts.
Blurb/Synopsis:
A killer is on the loose. The bodies are piling up. And Judith is hiding a deadly secret …
Someone from Judith’s past has turned up in Marlow and is stirring up trouble. With all the murders that the Marlow Murder Club have had to solve and her work setting crosswords, Judith’s been too busy to give her old life much thought. But now it’s knocking on her door and won’t go away.
On top of that, Marlow’s celebrities are getting murdered! When a footballer and a thriller writer are found dead, Judith, Suzie, and Becks must untangle a web of scandal to find the killer. But with Judith keeping secrets, the Marlow Murder Club find themselves drifting apart.
The pressure is on in more ways than one …
Can they find the killer and help Judith in time, or could this be the end of the Marlow Murder Club?
My Review:
The Mysterious Affair of Judith Potts is the fifth book in the series following Judith, Suzie and Becks. Throughout the books we have seen the trio build an unlikely friendship and that base becomes slightly threatened within this book, adding higher stakes than ever. Of course, as I am keeping this spoiler free it will be difficult to talk about any specifics but as usual this series provides great twists and turns and in this one in particular, I liked how there was a pivotal link back to something that is hinted at in the first book in the series. I like following the characters but in this one Judith is preoccupied from the main investigation and I personally felt that this took away some of the magic that the rest of the books had, there was also less of the relationship between our three protagonists and their friends in the Police this time which again, took something away from the book for my taste. I still loved this book, it was a solid four star read for me but not as good as others in the series I think but I would be intrigued to see where the series goes next.
Have you read this book? What did you think of it?
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