We ask experts to recommend the five best books in their subject and explain their selection in an interview. Never a dull moment, lots of red herrings, plenty of humour and a plot worthy of Agatha!!!' Reader review, A wonderful follow up to the first book. Just goes to prove the combined power of good friendships, no matter what their ages. Kudos to author Robert Thorogood for a sequel as riveting as his debut, The Marlow Murder Club! Like the debut, the sequel contains a chilling denouement I never saw coming. Forgive the cliché, but I couldn’t put it down and I read it in a day. No greater recommendation that that! And for those whom missed the first book (please remedy that as soon as you can), Death Comes to Marlow stands up quite well on its own.

Given this close association it’s no surprise that just as detectives and detective fiction have provided the answers to many crossword clues, crosswords have featured prominently in many notable murder mysteries. Arguably, the most famous crossword in crime fiction appears in Agatha Christie’s Curtain, where Captain Hastings’ attempt to solve a cryptic clue inadvertently causes him to intervene in a murder attempt, although other examples are available. Forget about solving all these crimes; the signal triumph here is (spoiler) the heroine’s survival.Brilliant, brilliant book . . . this was one of the best books I've read in a long time' Reader review,

Put on your thinking cap. It’s time for another round with the brainiest trio of amateur sleuths on either side of the Atlantic.Holiday festivities are now January doldrums when Judith gets a call—Sir Peter Bailey, a prominent Marlovian is inviting notable citizens to his house the day before his wedding to celebrate. Another sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. Friends. Sir Peter cannot be left for dead like that…Judith and the Marlow Murder Club are on the case. As anodyne as a village fair and as fiendishly clever as one of the many crossword clues embedded in the story.