Book info

• Title Magpie Murders
• Author Anthony Horowitz
• Year 2016
• Genre Mystery

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.

Thoughts

I’ve watched the TV adaptation of this, and after absolutely loving the Hawthorne series by Horowitz, I figured it was worth a go. It’s good! It’s a bit different to the TV show in that it’s in distinct parts - pretty much all the book within a book first, and then the investigation afterwards, rather than dipping back and forth throughout. I liked that, it made it easier to understand and follow, and even though I knew the answer to the mystery, it was still excellent to follow the process.

Rating: 4 / 5