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Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz

Created on: 12/29/20 08:20 AM Views: 579 Replies: 1
Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
Posted Tuesday, December 29, 2020 08:20 AM
Inspired by Steve Grant's review of The Upswing by Robert Putnam, I finally got off my lazy backside and finished a short review of Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz. So here goes...

Alan Conway has made a fortune writing novels about Atticus Pünd, who solves mysteries in small English villages, even though he hates himself for doing so. Nobody will publish his literary works which is probably he is a jerk to his editor Susan Ryeland.

 
So when Susan receives the manuscript of Conway’s latest novel, she thinks it’s pretty much the same as all his others. Pye Hall, a local manor house, is the scene of the murder. But Susan soon suspects there’s another story hidden in the manuscript…one that reflects an actual series of events?
 
The reader gets two mysteries in one: First, Conway’s story of Atticus Pünd examining the murder at Pye Hall and, second, Susan Ryeland solving the underlying mystery of Conway’s manuscript.
 
“Masterful, clever, and relentlessly suspenseful, Magpie Murders is a deviously dark take on vintage English crime fiction in which the reader becomes the detective.” — Harper

Mike

 
RE: Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz
Posted Tuesday, December 29, 2020 10:55 AM

Sounds great, Mike. I will likely pick this up after I finish my book club's January read. And Sharon, the Anglomane, will almost certainly want to read it.