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Its creator describes him as a love letter to the incredible women in his life. And in the midst of an avalanche of macho thrillers and thrillers, led by men and Thrillers, the Marlow Murder Club brings a cool feminine shot of the art of catching the murderers while returning to television for their glorious second season. The most cozy crime that could be, but the UKTV series established in the impressive backdrop of Buckinghamshire is also very sandy. Only a few moments in episode one, our intrepid amateur detectives Judith Potts, Suzie Harris and Becks Starling (also known as Samantha Bond, Jo Martin and Cara Hogan) face the Marlow Grandee Grandee Sir Bailey body, crushed under a cabinet fallen on the eve of her marriage to her former nurse, Jenny.

With the study door of Sir Peter closed from the inside and the police inclined to pass it as a tragic accident, despite the fact that the fatal cabinet seems to have been unraveling from the wall, it is clearly a job for the Marlow Murder Club. If they can only solve the mystery without damaging the career perspectives of their police friend and contact DS Tanika Malik (Natalie Dew), who is already under scrutiny for allowing them to enter their previous investigation.

Based on the best -selling novels of death in paradise, creator Robert Thorogood, as well as a brilliantly observable Whodunnit, the series really flies the flag of the simple pleasures of female friendships, as well as intergenerational.

Filmed in the hottest summer recorded last year, the cast continued with innumerable ice cream, it is another cookie. “I cannot think of many programs that you see genuine friendships that bloom in generations,” says Cara, 40, who plays Vicar’s wife, Becks Starling. “And it is not mentioned, it is taken as a fact, as it should be.”

The 37 -year -old Natalie co -star is put into account: “Often, when there are multiple main female actors in something, they are competing towards a goal, whether a man or to be the one who receives the promotion. “What is charming with these four women that Robert has written brilliantly is that we are all working towards a common goal.

“There is something true in the way they support each other and ask for help. It is not seen as weakness, it is really something that is very human, so I hope people relate to that. “

Samantha, 63, who plays Judith Potts, formidable crosswords, has joined her two co -star in a projection of warm preview received where her chemistry is evident (only Jo Martin, 43, is absent). She says she believes that the series of feeling good, also starring Rita Tushingham, 82, such as Mrs. Eddingham’s busy, Mrs. Eddingham, has “broken the mold.” “I remember receiving the first series: a Friday night arrived, so I read the two episodes during the weekend,” he recalls. “Our below is an open plan, so I was sitting on the couch and my husband was in the kitchen. I would pant and then laugh and then gasp again. He asked if it was good and I said it was extraordinary, and that is also true for this series. “

For his part, Robert Thorogood, 53, a fan of the novels of the Golden Age crime of Agatha Christie, says: “Death in the paragraph was a lot of male concerns. It has many male detectives and that was very pleasant. That was my Hercule Poirot. But I have always loved all Christie’s books. While I am not going to do (husband and wife detectors) Tommy and Tuppence, I was wondering what a modern version of Jane Marple would be like. “

When asked if he thought he succeeded, he laughs: “That was the beginning, but it is too daring, forceful and great to be Jane, she is Judith!” He continues: “I was raised by incredible women: my grandmother and my seven abundant aunts, who were scary and wonderful women. And there is also my wife (classic presenter of FM) Katie, who is the figure of Tanika, but also the figure of Becks. So I wanted to write a love letter to all these incredible women. “

Part of the attractiveness of the program is the fact that plots can develop more than two episodes of 45 minutes. While the first season was based on Robert’s homonymous novel, the second season is a four parts.

Episodes one and two follow Robert’s second book, Death arrives in Marlow, while episodes three and four present a new exclusive mystery. “I was so interested that we would have the space for fun and relationships. UKTV did not have a model for that, so they created one, ”Robert Beams. “It makes it much more cheerful to write. In death in paradise, it is only plot, plot, plot … here, there are chit chat and friends hanging out and having a good time, in addition to catching the murderers! “

The spectators will enjoy seeing the three amateur detectives grow in confidence. Like Samantha, who played Miss Moneypenny next to the 007 of Pierce Brosnan and Judi Dench as M, says of Judith, who lives in a large mansion of Thameeside (actually filmed on two houses): “She is that of thever, it always goes below the surface, what she did when she worked, she was an archaeologist.” As for Becks, the vicar wife who rotates the perennial dish, Cara explains: “It has been a constant search to find its identity among motherhood, but also her husband assuming this position as a vicar. She has really tried to be the ideal wife and mother.

“This season, he feels less need to be what he thinks is the wife of the ideal vicar. She can return to her instincts to be a rebel person. As he approached Judith and Suzie, he has found related spirits, people who have that sense of adventure and fun. “She adds:” The way Robert has represented women at different stages of their lives. “

Meanwhile, the third in his trio, the professional walker of Suzie dogs, who, as Robert admits, has a habit on the page of “taking charge of each scene in which he is located”, is fighting with the empty nest syndrome with the daughter Zeta who goes to university when the series begins. But humor is never far. A first episode, the most prominent sees the gang a mobility scooter to follow his main suspect, Sir Peter’s son, Tristan Bailey, played by Tom Stourton, through Marlow. Suzie is behind the steering wheel while Judith and Becks cling to my dear life.

“We had double acrobatics, but it was a large number of the three in that scooter,” says Samantha. “You are tied with a little rope and the specialist says that you are perfectly safe, then tour around a corner! When it goes through a speed blow, my ‘Ow’ is completely genuine and I am not sure that my butt has recovered. “

Robert adds: “That scene is not in the book, which you can understand why it is very visual. But I asked the question: “What would be fun?” And it was one of those ideas that we thought was brilliant. (The director) Steve Barron has to shoot it, the actors have to act, I do not care that it is impossible, we do not have the budget and I am worried about Sam’s background, which is becoming not very insurable as time passes, we simply knew it was going to be fun. We take the drama seriously in the high world of murder mysteries, but by making eccentric women solve the crime, they also enter the scratches. You get drama and puzzles, but also jokes and humor. “

Face reveals: “While they had blocked the roads to avoid real collisions, however, we were in Marlow’s real streets. There are people wandering, people who look through the windows, so you have that additional element that gives everything more adrenaline!

Natalie laughs: “Sam only gets more cruise Tom every time we do something. Honest with God, the next series if we get one, she will be out of a helicopter. ” Robert, a Marlow store, initially launched the television ASA show series, but despite his hugesuccess with Death in Paradise, he could not find a channel. So he fashed to write the books: “It’s Batty but it worked,” he admits, “I was desperate to put this story on the screen.”

The fourth, murder in Marlow Belle, has just been published. As for the inspiration behind the third and fourth episodes of series Dos, Robert reveals: “We were sitting in the room thinking: ‘Why would you commit murder in Marlow?’ And I said: “It was the bloody day last night!”

“The only inconvenience is that it becomes a little into a workplace. Walking to my dogs, assumes, ‘Oh, Harrow & Hope’, this really pleasant vineyard ‘, if we make another series, it would be a good place to have a murder “, and I am thinking of people who drowned upside down in wine deposits. It is a faff in that way, but easy to establish.”

While it is clear that the locals have taken the show to their hearts, they are also attracting visitors. Bond, who stays in an Airbnb while filming, recalls: “One night I was sitting in Pizza Express and there is a Norwegianncouple who had enjoyed the first season and had come to Marlow to see the city. “They asked the waitress: ‘Is that Judith Potts?’ And the waitress said: “You can’t deduce Judith, she is working.”

“Then they never discovered that I am married to a man who is Norwegian half. I could not have said much, but I could have said: ‘Hullo, how are you, thanks for coming’ “.

Face recalls: “One day we were filming along the river and people were opening neck, taking photos and greeting. A couple passed and, very casually, the woman turned to us and said: “You can put it in prison if you want.” The people of the city are knowing what we are doing. ”

Only one thing would improve it: a link between Robert’s two successful series. “I am waiting for Marlow in Paraíso and a trip to Guadalupe,” he adds face with a friendly smile.

• The second season of Marlow Murder Club begins in U&A drama at 8pm on Wednesday, with the first series available in BBC Iplayer. The murder in Marlow Belle by Robert Thorogood (HQ, £ 16.99) is now available