Writer of The Marlow Murder Club novels and TV show (for PBS/UKTV), creator of Death in Paradise, Beyond Paradise and Trackers (for BBC & Sky) and 4 DIP novels
Thrilled to see Death in Paradise, Beyond Paradise and The Marlow Murder Club up for the NTAs. It's a public vote (so really matters to broadcasters), and if we get to the final shortlist, it's a fabulous pissup in the O2 (which really matters to me).
Andrew Neil: "(President Trump) called him 'wacky', 'pompous', a 'fool'. You didn't have a word of criticism"
Boris Johnson: "Don't be ridiculous"
Tory leadership candidate is challenged on his response to row over leaked diplomatic emails
#BBCOurNextPM
My new
#MarlowMurderClub
mystery "The Queen of Poisons" is out!
So, I'm running a competition
Want 2 tickets to the WORLD PREMIERE of the TV show of the book?
Like and Retweet this post for a chance to win. I'll pick a name out of a hat @ 9am, 24th Jan
To celebrate the 10th Anniversary of
#deathinparadise
, here's a clip from the first ever recce to Guadeloupe in 2010 when we stepped onto the beach at
#Deshaies
and realised... we'd finally found it: our fictional town of Honoré.
(Filmed on an iPod Touch, good heavens)
There is nothing I’m more proud of than the gang who make this show - our actors and writers and the production team red planet are awesome and they deserve all the success they get. Go Team DIP!
📸 Death in Paradise returns for its 100th episode!
A star-studded guest cast has been confirmed for the new series, coming to
@BBCOne
and
@BBCiPlayer
from Sunday 4 February
More ➡️
Very excited to announce that Death in Paradise is going Down Under!
(I'm mainly excited because I'll never get over the disappointment that there are no killer snakes, spiders or sharks in Guadeloupe, a 'murder weapon' problem that's solved in one fell stroke by moving to Aus)
One week to go, and now the advertising is very much out there... which means I'm getting jittery as hell. Mind you, what a brilliant poster, it really is tremendous. x
Hands up if you're excited for
#TheMarlowMurderClub
! 👋
We're on the edge of our seats! Make sure you tune in 6th and 7th of March at 8pm on Drama and get ready for a murder mystery you won't forget! 🔎
Catch up on
@UKTV
Play if you miss the action!
Mark your calendars because
#TheMarlowMurderClub
is just around the corner! 📺
Join us on Drama, March 6th and 7th at 8pm for a gripping double feature as we dive into a world of twists, turns, and thrilling suspense. 🕵️♀️
Catch up on
@UKTVPlay
if you miss out!
Just emailed my publisher the next Marlow Murder Club book... MURDER ON THE MARLOW BELLE.
In all bookshops next Jan, but want to read it now? For free? Here it is, all 82,000 words.
(It's so weird seeing all of that hard work reduced to a screengrab)
And now...a drink
Anyone who reads The Marlow Murder Club may notice the brief appearance of two whippets,
@WhippetWally
and Evie. They're real-life dogs and want you to know that they were on hand to help with ALL of the writing process and didn't get in the way, not even once.
#whippet
Due to not being well at the time, I missed the fancy industry screening of this, so sat down to watch the final cut of this this afternoon on the telly at home. Oh my, it is a thing of absolute joy - a brilliant script, actors and setting. I can’t wait for the word to see it.
@MooseAllain
My 87-yr old Sheffield m-in-law, if answering the door in sloppy clothes says, ‘sorry, Im in my dishables’. Apparently ‘dishables’ was a corruption of the French word deshabille, meaning incorrectly dressed. And so the sexy French word became the very northern Dishables.
Everyone loves a murder mystery and a good script is where it all begins! 🎥🎬
#TheMarlowMurderClub
starts 6th March at 8pm on Drama and available on
@UKTVPlay
I'm thrilled to be writing 3 more Marlow Murder Club books for HQ. (The fact that I have to hand in book 3 in the series before book 2 comes out next January in no way terrifies me.)
#MMCBook3
Thank you to all the readers and booksellers who’ve supported Judith and the gang over the years - I’m pinching myself that they’ve become a Sunday Times bestseller (and also thank you
@ManpreetEditor
for the enormous floaty seven!)
How it started (the start of my first treatment from 28/3/2015)...how it ended almost exactly nine years later: the TV show going out tonight on Drama (Channel 20 on all tellies). If you like your crime cosy and your puzzles intricate, come along and join
#TheMarlowMurderClub
Hands up if you're excited for
#TheMarlowMurderClub
! 👋
We're on the edge of our seats! Make sure you tune in 6th and 7th of March at 8pm on Drama and get ready for a murder mystery you won't forget! 🔎
Catch up on
@UKTV
Play if you miss the action!
This is the most STUNNING window display in Marlow - I'm completely bowled over by it - so thank you Marlow Bookshop for all of your support (I'll be photographing myself in front of it every day until it comes down)
I'm naming a dog in the script I'm writing - what's your dog called, I'll pick the most appropriate name, and I'll let you know in a few month's time if your dog and his / her name has made it into the shooting script! Go!
This is a really wonderful and in-depth article in The Guardian about the whys and wherefores of Death in Paradise - and also gives suitable prominence to the role
@breathwick
played in it getting to screen.
🚨Death in Paradise news! 🚨
You remember how Humphrey left the show to go back to London with Martha...????
Can't wait to see this on BBC1 next year. Can't. Wait.
#deathinparadise
#HumphreyandMarthaForever
Cannot tell you how chuffed I am to be chosen as the Independent Bookshops' Book of the Month. If you wish to order your copy of The Marlow Murder Club, do please click this link:
#indiebookofthemonth
Good morning! Today's the day The Marlow Murder Club TV show starts filming, and I can't tell you how excited I am - and thrilled - and just altogether can't-quite-believe-it-pinching-myself. (And what an amazing lineup for Judith, Suzie, Becks and Tanika!)
This looks absolutely amazing - and I LOVE the title of the first in the series, you can't get better than a Ronseal title IMO, and this is that with bells on.
Absolutely DELIGHTED to finally reveal details of my brand-new book series 'We Solve Murders', about Amy and Steve, a daughter-in-law/father-in-law detective duo. If you like The Thursday Murder Club, I think you'll love this. Out in September, and I can't wait for you to read
Stunning work from
@claireebrett
and the AMAZING Charlotte Phillips (the designer of the genius cover for Death Comes to Marlow) who transformed a window at the
@marlowbookshop
yesterday. It's so great, they'll have to keep it there permanently, right?
Well, here it is, the first sighting (by me at least) of Death Comes to Marlow, the new Marlow Murder Club mystery! V V excited, and delighted to share some of my top tips on how to open boxes without cutting yourself.
@HQstories
@JohnsonAlcock
#DeathComesToMarlow
This year's Christmas lights will be switched on by local author and novelist Robert Thorogood. Robert also happens to be an all round lovely chap, and a great choice for the event!! Thu 23 Nov is the date for your diary! More details here:
@robthor
I used to look at the Sunday Times Bestseller list each week when I was growing up and idly wonder if I'd ever be on it, even though that's impossible, because how could I ever be allowed to write a book? This weekend, and this isn't even remotely humble (so apologies) I'm on it!
A wonderful busman's afternoon visiting
@HQstories
Towers and signing 500 copies of DEATH COMES TO MARLOW - and catching up with
@ManpreetEditor
and the amazing team who are now going to be getting these gawjus editions out into the shops.
Thank you, Victoria - it's thrilling to see this article about all of the amazing female sleuths at the moment (but particularly excited, obvs, to see Samantha Bond front and centre).
🚨 Save the date! Humphrey and Martha are back with a brand new crew.
Beyond Paradise is coming to
@BBCOne
and
@BBCiPlayer
on Friday 24 February.
Find out more ➡️
@MooseAllain
I was on the circle line when a guy came up and said we were at school together 25 yrs ago and he wanted to thank me for the time I stopped a prefect called Oli from punishing him. At which point, Oli who neither of us had seen for 25 yrs, bumped into us both.
Spent the morning at
@theUL
floating around just about the best exhibition I've ever been to. If you love crime fiction and are within, say, 1 to 2 thousand miles of Cambridge, you've got to go... and it's free to boot.
An amazing morning at
@CPIbooksUK
signing a thousand copies of the new Marlow Murder Club book. I even made it into the wall of honour at the end (but for how long, I wonder, how long….??)
I'm really pinching myself that I've been asked to do this - and I *promise* I won't use the inevitable murder that's bound to happen that night as research for my next Marlow Murder Club book.
Two weeks until Marlow will be shining with the beautiful Christmas lights.
We are very proud continue the lovely tradition to support the Christmas Lights Switch on. Very exiting time is coming soon 🎅🏻 ☃️ 🤩 🎄
@robthor
@MarlowTown
@MarlowTC
First up, Motion B, proposed by John Baron: Demands no-deal. It simply says we leave on April 12th with no deal. This is likely to get a proper twatting today.
Very sad to report that Death in Paradise Series 10 won't start filming next month in wonderful Guadeloupe. We're all a bit thrown to say the least, but we'll be back - at some point - and look forward to start killing people again as soon as possible.
Done!
Okay, so Book 2 in the Marlow Murder Club Series - DEATH COMES TO MARLOW - is finished! I'm always amazed and appalled that all of that work - a whole world of blood, sweat and tears - can then be thumbnailed into one screenshot like this.
#DeathComesToMarlow
#MartiniTime
Officially more dangerous than London! And to be clear, this is *exactly* the content I'm here for, Paul. Love a stat that has to go to four decimal places...
@robthor
Robert did you know that with 5 deaths in 3 years the murder rate of Marlow 0.0114 exceeds both Saint Marie (Guadeloupe) (0.002) and London 0.0012
Good grief, is this true!!!!???? What an amazing ride it’s been. I genuinely couldn’t imagine there’d be a second series…. I have to pinch myself when I realise we’re still killing people in saint marie every year. x
I really hope the TV show can do the town proud.
I ❤️ Marlow. (Mind you, considering the fabulous locations we're using, this shouldn't be too hard to achieve - and I promise we aren't planning to shut the bridge down, not even once. PROMISE).
Filming starts today on a TV adaptation of "The Marlow Murder Club", the hit book written by Marlow resident Robert Thorogood! Really exciting news for
@robthor
and Marlow!! Read all about it here:
I said BIG PRIZE, but I'm underselling it - it's a BIIIIIIIGGGGGG PRIIIIIIIIZZZZZZE (hmm, that makes it sound like Gollum, not sure if that's the vibe I should be going for. Hold on...)
🎉🎁🪇 B I G P R I Z E ! 🍾🎈🥳
(That's more like it)
And there we have it! Judith Potts & co. return later this year in
#DeathComesToMarlow
, the heavily-anticipated second instalment in the Marlow Murder Club series from
@robthor
🎉
Available to pre-order now at
Finally the dog madness is over. You all have wonderful mutts - I particularly enjoyed the spat over an imaginary dog and the budgerigar. I've screengrabbed the names that worked best for me and will report back in due course. Happy Christmas everyone, and thank you for playing.
🎬 ACTION! Zahra Ahmadi, Dylan Llewellyn and Felicity Montagu join Kris Marshall and Sally Bretton in Death In Paradise spin-off Beyond Paradise - and filming is officially underway!
Read more ➡️
Like tea? Of course you do! Like poisoning Mayor's? Of COURSE you do! Then check out the 😍GAWJUS😍 sprayed edges on the Indies Special Edition of The Queen of Poisons. Pre order now!
#TheMarlowMurderClub
We are so excited to reveal a gorgeous *independent bookshop paperback edition* of
@robthor
's Sunday Times bestselling
#QueenOfPoisons
. It features a beautiful sprayed edge and is available to pre-order now.
💚
So pleased finally to be able shout this from the rooftops - it’s one of our best ever episodes IMHO, written by the genius
@jameshall50
, stars some of of my absolute heroes of stage and screen… including the triumphant return of
@DannyJohnJules
.
#happychristmaseveryone
.
@deathinparadise
will have its first ever festive special this year on BBC1 - and it’s a going to be a 90 minute Christmas special! All the info here including the return of a DIP fave
Okay, the self-promotion has started, I'm afraid. I'll be hawking this pretty assiduously between now and publication date on the 18th Jan - apologies in advance.
PRE-ORDER NOW!
Readers LOVE
#TheQueenOfPoisons
, a Marlow Murder Club Mystery 💚☠️
@robthor
‘A lovely warm mystery’
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘I loved this book’
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
‘Read this book, and if you haven’t read the first two, read all three!’
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Pre-order now:
A lovely signing in The
@marlowbookshop
just now - do pop in if you'd like to buy Special Editions with sprayed edges, signed by me... and they'll throw in a fancy tote bag as well. (They're terrific - I nicked one for myself).
Popped into the wonderful
@marlowbookshop
this afternoon and signed lots of lovely copies of The Marlow Murder Club. Here you can see me trying to make sure my eyes are 'smiling' as the rest of my face is hidden by the mask.
Oo, there are even more sightings of the AMAZING poster coming in, and I think that makes now the perfect time to reveal that Futura really is, and has always been, Best Typeface. How cool that something designed in 1927 is still in use 100 years later?
Thrilled to see this ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review of The Queen of Poisons in The Sun today.
If you were wondering about buying a copy, do dive in, and then you can be one of the cool kids who were into The Marlow Murder Club before it was turned into a TV show. 😉
Right, and now begins the final push! (And if you’re interested, I date drafts by the date they’re due to be delivered - just to get that fixed in my head)
#deathcomestomarlow
What a WONDERFUL photo! They look like sisters - I'd never really realised before (because I'm dim) that Dame MR would have been able to model herself on Dame AC for her Marple.
Thank you
@MarcusRashford
for reminding us all that people are good, that we look out for each other, and that kindness, empathy and generosity run through all our communities. This is the Britain I want to live in. 🇬🇧
Writers, want to miss your word / page / Christmas deadline??? Easy! Just ask the twitterverse for names of dogs so you can name a dog in your WIP and then spend the whole day looking at lovely dogs.
Thank you so much,
@marlowbookshop
, for hosting such a brilliant night - and thank you to everyone who came along, I had the best time evah. Thank you!
🥂Standing room only last night, when hundreds (not really an exaggeration) joined us and local author
@robthor
in our bookshop for a celebration signing event✒️ to mark the publication of
#TheQueenofPoisons
, the third and latest book in the
#MarlowMurderClub
series📗🌟 THANK YOU
PSA: the new Marlow Murder Club book is being published this week, and my feed will be a whirlwind of self-promotion for the next few days. Apols in advance, but it really does take a long time to write a book, and it's TERRIFYING to know it's finally leaving home...
Everyone should have someone like Matt to talk rambling nonsense to before he turns it into a warm-hearted and kind account of your life that appears to make sense (on the page at least).
To celebrate the release of
@robthor
's thrilling new instalment in his Marlow Murder Club series, we're giving away a one-night stay for two at
@MacdonaldHotels
Compleat Angler, a luxury riverside hotel in Marlow! Details here:
🚨 Today's launch day for the paperback of Death Comes to Marlow! 🚨
In the meantime, here are a few snaps from the set of the TV show we're making of Book 1 in the series. I can't wait for the world to see it...
The new novel has the most brilliant cover (and I was in no way intimidated / terrified when it was finalised MONTHS before I'd finished writing). The Marlow Murder Club, out on January 21st!
So proud to be working on this show with these amazing people - and for these BRILLIANT channels. Here's to two months of rain-free shooting in Marlow...
MASTERPIECE has an all-new Mystery! coming your way... Announced today with
@UKTV
: The TV adaptation of
@robthor
's The Marlow Murder Club will star Samantha Bond,
@therealjomartin
, Cara Horgan &
@dew_natalie
🕵️♀️ Read more:
Thank you to all the wonderful readers who took a punt on a brand new crime series. Judith and I will be raising a small glass of whisky 🥃 to you tonight!
(Mind you, Grandma Betty would be turning in her grave knowing I’ve immortalised her nightly 6pm tumbler (or 2) of whisky)
🎉 100K COPIES KLAXON!
We have officially sold over 100,000 copies of
@robthor
's hugely enjoyable cosy crime mystery,
#TheMarlowMurderClub
!
THOUSANDS of people have read and LOVED this incredible novel, so why not treat yourself to a copy this weekend?!
They literally used an image of Christopher Nolan on their poster today advertising Britain's power.
They try and bathe in the reflected glory of our amazing artists, but then screw over the next generation.
#Toriesout
Remind me, please. How much do the performing arts earn for the British economy, from films, TV and music to all genres of live performances, and of course tourism?
When the mayor dies suddenly and traces of aconite are found in his coffee cup, the Marlow Murder Club are brought onto the case, but this one has them stumped. Pre-order
@robthor
's brilliant new cosy crime mystery here:
Still can’t believe I’ve been nommed for an Edgar, and by George I’m attending the ceremony in New York, you try and stop me (but I won’t be wearing such a fetching tank top).
Really excited for the new series tonight. I’m going to be drawing the curtains, turning gas fire up, pouring myself a glass of lovely Ti’Punch, and pretending for an hour I’m in the Caribbean....
Christmas really began last night in Marlow, as local author and screenwriter Robert Thorogood switched on our lights in front of a huge crowd! More pics etc here:
@robthor
@MarlowTC
@MarlowFM
I've known for years that
@MaliksGroup
make the best curries in the UK. That's why I named the Detective in my Marlow Murder Club books after them. But I only found out yesterday that the director of the TV show only took the job because of Malik's as well. (From today's Express)
If you're struggling to get hold of The Marlow Murder Club (it's sold out on Amazon), do please go to
#thelittlebookshop
in Cookham, a brilliant local Indie. I've just been signing copies, and they've got a whole bunch of them! (They'll post or do C&C)