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Magpie Murders
A Cozy Mystery Novel by Anthony Horowitz
Book 1 of the Magpie Murders Series
Subgenres:
- Classic Mystery Homage,
- Meta Mystery
This book is for you if you're into...
- Mysteries within mysteries where the book itself hides secrets
- Homages to classic British crime with a modern, darker twist
- Stories where the reader plays detective alongside the protagonist
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A deviously dark take on the classic mystery thriller by one of the modern-day greats.
Magpie Murders finds Susan Ryeland as our protagonist. Ryeland is the editor of the best-selling crime novelist, Alan Conway, and is an expert in all-things Atticus Pűnd, the author’s protagonist. When Conway’s latest manuscript hits her desk, Ryeland expects the same homage to Agatha Christie as usual. But, as she reads, she finds a real mystery contained in the book’s pages… One that will lead to murder.
The first in a series of three, Magie Murders is a fresh spin on Christie and is easily devoured.
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From the New York Times bestselling author, this fiendishly brilliant, riveting thriller weaves a classic whodunit worthy of Agatha Christie into a chilling, ingeniously original modern-day mystery.
When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway's latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others. After working with the bestselling crime writer for years, she's intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pünd, who solves mysteries disturbing sleepy English villages. An homage to queens of classic British crime such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers, Alan's traditional formula has proved hugely successful. So successful that Susan must continue to put up with his troubling behavior if she wants to keep her job.
Conway's latest tale has Atticus Pünd investigating a murder at Pye Hall, a local manor house. Yes, there are dead bodies and a host of intriguing suspects, but the more Susan reads, the more she's convinced that there is another story hidden in the pages of the manuscript: one of real-life jealousy, greed, ruthless ambition, and murder.
Masterful, clever, and relentlessly suspenseful, Magpie Murders is a deviously dark take on vintage English crime fiction in which the reader becomes the detective.
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