Robert Thorogood Audiobooks

The creator of Death in Paradise turns to prose with The Marlow Murder Club

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Who is Robert Thorogood?

Robert Thorogood, born in Colchester in 1972, is an English screenwriter and Sunday Times and USA Today bestselling novelist with an unusually clean claim to fame: he created Death in Paradise, the BBC One murder mystery institution, and co-created its spin-offs Beyond Paradise and Return to Paradise. He then managed what surprisingly few television creators do – a genuine second act in books, with The Marlow Murder Club series of murder mystery novels, which he promptly adapted back into a television series for PBS and UKTV.

A writer who can carry the same craft across screen and page, in both directions, is rarer than it sounds. Thorogood’s whole career amounts to one deep skill, endlessly refined: the classic whodunit, engineered to entertain.

Robert Thorogood in audiobooks

The traditional murder mystery may be the perfect audiobook genre: a puzzle unfolding in real time, a contained cast of suspects, and the listener quietly playing detective alongside. The Marlow Murder Club, the Thorogood title in our catalogue, is the novel that gives his book series its name, and it carries the hallmarks of a screenwriter’s training – scenes that move, dialogue that earns its keep.

For UK listeners this is thoroughly British crime in the classic tradition, from the creator of one of the nation’s best-loved television mysteries. It does exactly what you hope it will do, which in this genre is the highest compliment available.