Magpie Murders
2016 • 464 pages
Ratings98
Average rating4.1
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Ratings98
Average rating4.1
THE NUMBER ONE EBOOK BESTSELLER 'Want to read a great whodunnit? Anthony Horowitz has one for you: MAGPIE MURDERS. It's as good as an Agatha Christie. Better, in some ways. Cleverer.' Stephen King 'The finest crime novel of the year' Daily Mail ***** Seven for a mystery that needs to be solved . . . Editor Susan Ryland has worked with bestselling crime writer Alan Conway for years. Readers love his detective, Atticus Pünd, a celebrated solver of crimes in the sleepy English villages of the 1950s. But Conway's latest tale of murder at Pye Hall is not quite what it seems. Yes, there are dead bodies and a host of intriguing suspects, but hidden in the pages of the manuscript lies another story: a tale written between the very words on the page, telling of real-life jealousy, greed, ruthless ambition and murder. From the creator of Midsomer Murders comes a fiendish mystery perfect for fans of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot. ***** Praise for Magpie Murders - the gripping Sunday Times bestselling crime thriller: 'Ingenious' Sunday Times 'Thrilling and compelling with a stunning twist' Daily Mail 'A stylish thriller' Sunday Mirror 'A cunning reinvention of the thriller' Mail on Sunday
Featured Series
2 primary booksSusan Ryeland is a 2-book series with 2 primary works first released in 2016 with contributions by Anthony Horowitz.
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Well that was a lot of fun. A golden-age style murder mystery within a modern murder mystery, wordplay, interesting characters. What an entertaining book.
One sentence synopsis... A mystery within a mystery, a book editor finds herself solving a murder with clues left in the manuscript of one of her author's detective novels.
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Read it if you like... Agatha Christie, Sherlock Holmes, pre-forensic detective work. Or just if you enjoy creative narrative devices or getting two books for the price of one.
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Dream casting... the book already casts Ben Kingsley as the fictional detective from the manuscript Atticus Pund but in addition to that I'd cast Michael Emmerson as the unlikeable author Alan Conway.
Murder mystery within a murder mystery–very clever. Didn't realize at first that the author also created Midsomer Murders (the British tv show), which I also like very much. Heh.
