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Robert Thorogood @robthor.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Thrilled to be longlisted for a CWA Dagger—it's a real pinch-me-dream-come-true moment. As much as anything, it's a fab list of fellow authors to be amongst, even if, as my photo suggests, I look like a vet who's about to give you bad news about the family Labrador... thecwa.co.uk/awards-and-c...

A photo of Robert with the text that he's been longlisted for the Dagger in the Library award for the Crime Writers' Association.

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Robert Thorogood @robthor.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

And here they are near Burgh island! (Lovely to hear from you, and hope you’re well!)

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Robert Thorogood @robthor.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Thanks to the SCOTUS* ruling on tariffs, price reductions are being passed on to the consumer with immediate effect! Until the end of today, you can pre-order the paperback of The Mysterious Affair of Judith Potts and pay 25% less! [* This is not true] www.waterstones.com/book/the-mys...

An advert offering 25% off The Mysterious Affair of Judith Potts paperback

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Robert Thorogood @robthor.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

It's always exciting to receive uncorrected proofs in the post, and I can't wait to dive into these two books that arrived within 24 hours of each other (what are the chances!), but... um... it also feels a bit like pigeons coming home to roost.

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Robert Thorogood @robthor.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Well this is very exciting - the arrival this morning of the FIFTH Marlow Murder Club book, The Mysterious Affair of Judith Potts. Immediately absorbed onto the bookshelf with her sisters and looking mighty fine.

The book The Mysterious Affair of Judith Potts sitting proudly on my bookshelf next to the other Marlow murder club books

The book The Mysterious Affair of Judith Potts sitting proudly on my bookshelf next to the other Marlow murder club books, but from a different angle

A front on photo of the cover of the new book

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Robert Thorogood @robthor.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Since when did Microsoft Word become a distributed array / hive mind / swarm? Is this new or have I just never noticed before that it now thinks it's more than one entity?

The Microsoft Word screen that shows that it's done a find and replace but it says 'We Made 12 replacements' as though it has multiple identities.

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Robert Thorogood @robthor.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Okay, so we have a cover for the next Marlow Murder Club book! What do you think? While you're watching the vid, I'll be popping over to the sideboard to get myself just a small glass of whisky... (Thank you, as ever, to @manpreeteditor.bsky.social & @teddyfromtheblock.bsky.social)

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Robert Thorogood @robthor.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Another week on the USA Today Bestseller list! It's so very, very thrilling to know that so many Americans want to spend time with Judith (and therefore, by proxy, my Grandma Betty, Great Aunt Jess, and all of my other dotty female relatives who are in Judith's DNA). Go Team Marlow!

Some text that says USA today best seller to the left of the cover of the murder on the Marlow Ball novel by Robert Thorogood

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Robert Thorogood @robthor.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Just found out that Murder on the Marlow Belle is a USA Today bestseller in the States. Yee, as I'm sure no-one actually says, ha! Thank you to EVERYONE who's bought the book, and to the brilliant team at @poisonedpenpress.bsky.social who've helped Judith & Co. find so many new friends in the USA 🇺🇸

A little advert that shoes the cover of Murder on the Marlow Belle along with some text that says USA today best seller

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Robert Thorogood @robthor.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

A beautiful obit of Cleo Laine in The Times this morning. I spent hours and hours listening to her albums as a teenager. Just adored her. I'm also delighted to report that the Beneath The Line comments absolutely delivered as I hoped they would. www.thetimes.com/uk/obituarie...

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Robert Thorogood @robthor.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Actually , I took a new photo only this morning g that I plan to make my profile….

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Robert Thorogood @robthor.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

It’s lunch at Lord’s and so far it’s been a ‘three cravat’ morning. Wonder what the next two sessions will bring…..?

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Robert Thorogood @robthor.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

🇺🇸 America! 🇺🇸 For a short while, you can get 25% off the cover price on the latest Marlow Murder Club novel – in audiobook, digital or hardback – if you pre-order from Barnes and Noble. Coupon code at checkout: PREORDER25 www.barnesandnoble.com/s/murder%20o...

A poster advertising 25% off on the latest Marlow Murder Club book, Murder on the Marlow Belle

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Robert Thorogood @robthor.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

On set this morning, about to murder The Mayor of Marlow….

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Robert Thorogood @robthor.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Roll up, Roll up, it's paperback pub week of Murder on the Marlow Belle! Your local Indie bookshop has it early! With sprayed edges, ooh! And signed by me, ahhh! And if you're quick, you even get a tote (AMAZE!) and tea towel (DOUBLE AMAZE!) #themarlowmurderclub @marlowbookshop.bsky.social

Robert outside the Marlow bookshop with his paperback in the window behind him

The Marlow Bookshop, with Robert's books in a window.

A tote bag with the book's design on the front.

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Robert Thorogood @robthor.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Come to set they said. It’ll be fun they said. (Luckily all interiors today - and it’s ALWAYS goosebumpy being on actual real live set with real live cast and crew…. #deffolivingthedream)

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Robert Thorogood @robthor.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

And to end this short flurry of posts, I had a fabulous (best?) outing to CPI Print to sign a bucketload of paperbacks with special sprayed edges (I WILL NOT CALL THEM SPREDGES THIS IS THE HILL I'M DYING ON) for all of the Indie bookshops in the UK. They look GAWJUS. Out on the 19th!

A big pile of paperbacks Robert has to sign

Robert holding a paperback of his latest book

Robert displaying the sprayed edges on his new book that shows a boat and a long chain that's attached to an anchor at the bottom

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Robert Thorogood @robthor.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

An amazing weekend at Fête du Livre D'Hyères: two full days behind a desk hawking books like a Covent Garden flower girl. I'd have gone mad (we all went a *bit* mad) if I hadn't had the brilliant Valerie Beuf from La Martinière at my side, and the hilarious @abirm.bsky.social across the way.

Robert stands next to a poster for the festival that has a picture of him on it

Robert and Abir smile in front of the various stands

Robert's stall of books before the bedlam starts

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Robert Thorogood @robthor.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Posting v late, but it’s been a bit bedlamy finishing book 5 and kicking off series 3 of TMMC at the same time. Had a fab jaunt to New York for the @mysterywriters.bsky.social #Edgars2025. Lost (very happily) to Scott Frank, and hung out with @ianmooreauthor.bsky.social and Steven Sheil. Net win.

Robert standing next to Scott Frank at the awards ceremony

Robert in the middle with Ian to his right and Steve to his left

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Robert Thorogood @robthor.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Sitting in the sunshine in Uxbridge waiting for my son to take his driving theory test, and really very happy to be keeping company with this fabulous piece of art deco architecture.

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Robert Thorogood @robthor.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Good morning! Today's publication day for MURDER ON THE MARLOW BELLE, which is very much a woohoo moment for me. If you'd like some woohoo in your life, do please get yourself a copy. linktr.ee/robthor

The window display in the Marlow Bookshop - with the cover to Robert's book painted onto the glass

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Robert Thorogood @robthor.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

This thread 100% It's how I, and everyone like me on the lowest of the very lowest rungs of writing in the 1990s, all met in London and had the time to try out mad stuff that mostly didn't work but sometimes did (and also have the time to defeat alien invasions in Sim City 2000).

A screengrab of SimCity 2000 with an alien robot laying waste to a city

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Robert Thorogood @robthor.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

The best day of my writing year is always 'Signing A Bucket Of Books' day at CPI Printers, when I get to see the new book for the first time (which is always ridiculously thrilling). Here are some behind the scene shots. (I'm smiling because I am yet to sit down and sign every single bloody book)

Robert standing next to 1,000 copies of his new novel and smiling because he doesn't realise how bloody long it's going to take to sign them all.

A pile of the books taken from a snazzy camera angle

Robert holds the book up, which depicts a boat spouting water on the Thames river and the title of the book "Murder on the Marlow Belle" written nice and large

All of the signed books loaded up on a pallet, ready to go to bookshops.

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Robert Thorogood @robthor.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Just recorded a special interview with the phenomenal Nicolette McKenzie to go at the end of the audiobook of ‘Murder on the Marlow Belle’. It was such a thrill for me to put a face to the voice after all these years.

Robert Thorogood sitting (absolutely thrilled) next to the audio book narrator of his books, Nicolette McKenzie

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Robert Thorogood @robthor.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

Currently watching the flames go up on my account - each tweet briefly appearing on the screen in a Proustian rush and then vanishing forever. Feels v cleansing.

A screengrab of the app REDACT deleting Robert's tweets from X one at a time

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