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“Magpie Murders is a double puzzle for puzzle followers, who don’t typically get the classicism they need from modern thrillers.” –Janet Maslin, The New York Times
From the New York Times bestselling writer of Moriarty and Trigger Mortis, this fiendishly sensible, riveting thriller weaves a basic whodunit worthy of Agatha Christie right into a chilling, ingeniously unique trendy-day thriller.
When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway’s newest novel, she has no cause to assume will probably be a lot totally different from any of his others. After working with the bestselling crime author for years, she’s intimately conversant in his detective, Atticus Pünd, who solves mysteries disturbing sleepy English villages. An homage to queens of basic British crime akin to Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers, Alan’s conventional components has proved massively profitable. So profitable that Susan should proceed to place up together with his troubling conduct if she needs to maintain her job.
Conway’s newest story has Atticus Pünd investigating a homicide at Pye Hall, an area manor home. Yes, there are lifeless our bodies and a number of intriguing suspects, however the extra Susan reads, the extra she’s satisfied that there’s one other story hidden within the pages of the manuscript: one in every of actual-life jealousy, greed, ruthless ambition, and homicide.
Masterful, intelligent, and relentlessly suspenseful, Magpie Murders is a deviously darkish tackle classic English crime fiction by which the reader turns into the detective.
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