Binding: Paperback
Description: Don t miss Magpie Murders on PBS's Masterpiece Mystery! " A double puzzle for puzzle fans who don t often get the classicism they want from contemporary thrillers." Janet Maslin New York Times New York Times Bestseller | Winner of the Macavity Award for Best Novel | NPR Best Book of the Year | Washington Post Best Book of the Year | Esquire Best Book of the Year From the New York Times bestselling author of Moriarty and Trigger Mortis 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 P nd 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 P nd 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.
Title: Magpie Murders A Novel
Author(s): Horowitz Anthony
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780062645234
Pages: 512 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 3/27/2018