“Death Comes to Marlow” - Robert Thorogood
🦆 Judith, Suzie, and Becks are back at it! Marlow’s wealthy big wig, Sir Peter Bailey is found dead in his study that’s been locked from the inside. Plotting is ultimately a smidge farfetched in the more technical aspects of the murder, but I love the characters, the setting, and the identity and motives of the killer are certainly interesting.
🦆 The competent - if overly cautious - acting SIO Tanika Malik (who recognized her own fallibility and sought Judith & Co’s assistance) is replaced by her returning superior, DI Hoskins, who Marple fans will agree is a modern Inspector Slack. I loved this interaction between Judith and Hoskins (unlike Marple who is sly, Judith will dish it out aggressively):
“‘How on earth do you know all this?’
‘How on earth do you not?’
DI Hoskins didn’t immediately reply.”
🦆 Why was Sir Peter so despised? Thorogood provides an apt explanation of a quintessentially British sort of character; a type that results from generations of inherited titles and primogeniture.
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