Robert Thorogood is an English screenwriter and novelist. He is best known as the creator of the internationally acclaimed BBC murder mystery series Death in Paradise, and has written a series of spin-off novels featuring detective DI Richard Poole.

After graduating from Cambridge University, he spent many years supporting his writing career with a variety of temporary jobs, including dressing up in a full bear costume to taunt the then Prime Minister, John Major; being a magician at Hamley’s; and being employed to change the batteries in the remote controls for a minor branch of the Saudi Royal Family.

Thorogood has been an avid fan of murder mysteries since he read his first Agatha Christie novel, Peril at End House, at the age of ten. He released the first book in a new series, The Marlow Murder Club (HarperCollins), in 2020; it received rave reviews and has become an international bestseller. Following the escapades of three unlikely provincial detectives, the novel has been praised as ‘charmingly eccentric whodunit.’ The sequel, Death Comes to Marlow, was published in 2023. There are plans to expand the series with three more titles – watch this space!

You can follow him on Twitter at @robthor.