Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * *

Cast: Samantha Bond, Jo Martin, Cara Horgan, Natalie Dew, Hollie Dempsey, Phil Langhorne, Tijan Sarr, Niall Costigan, Ella Kenion, Rita Tushingham, Sophia Ally, Ian Barritt, Amelia Valentina Pankhania, Ethan Quinn, Tegan Imani, Lizzie Roper, Emily Bevan, Raphael Akuwudike, Sam Janus, Abigail Cruttenden, Caroline Langrishe, Nina Sosanya, William Willoughby, Hugh Quarshie, Dominic Mafham.

A second season of The Marlow Murder Club was always on the cards, but sometimes popular doesn’t always reach into the depths of the crime that begs to be solved by the armchair detective; sometimes the presented piece is too warm, too cosy to be anything other than a distraction offered with the best intentions of drama.