The Marlow Murder Club's Samantha Bond teases Judith's "cautiously" developing romance

While The Marlow Murder Club primarily focuses on the various cases the leading trio investigate, we have over the first two seasons delved more into their personal lives.

The end of season 2 saw Samantha Bond's Judith meet Hugh Quarshie's Professor Darius Gifford, and sparks appeared to fly between the two of them.

Now, with Quarshie returning for season 3, Bond has told Radio Times exclusively that we will see their romance "developing" – however, it will be doing so "slowly and cautiously".

"Judith hadn't had anything romantic in her life for many years," Bond said. "So, she's cautious. She does engage him to help her, however. So he's quite cunning at being a sleuth of his own, as it were."

This season will also feature a particularly personal story for Cara Horgan's Becks, as she finds herself the suspect in an investigation when a murder takes place at her university reunion.

Speaking about the storyline, Suzie star Jo Martin told us that her character and Judith "never for one minute" believe that Becks is guilty.

"We hold fast, and it gives us that kind of impetus to work even harder to prove our friend’s innocence – hopefully," she said. "But how we play out is that, 'No, she could never.'

"And obviously, there's a scene where they take her lanyard from her – and our lanyard is our status, it’s used to get into places – and suddenly we're told we can't talk with her, which really is awful. But do we listen to them? I don't know. And that's a really interesting journey to go on.

"Because up front we’re all like 'No, no, no, no', but every so often something happens, you go, 'Could she? No, no, no, no, it’s Becks, there's no way. There is absolutely no way.' But it does test the friendship and if anything, makes us even stronger."

The Marlow Murder Club is coming to U&Drama on Wednesday 18 March 2026.

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