Marble Hall Murders

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From bestselling author, Anthony Horowitz, a new novel in the bestselling Magpie Murders series in which editor, Susan Ryeland, uncovers the clues in an Atticus Pund mystery to solve a murder. Susan Ryeland has had enough of murder. She's edited two novels about the famous detective, Atticus P nd, and both times she's come close to being killed. Now she's back in England and she's been persuaded to work on a third. The new 'continuation' novel is by Eliot Crace, grandson of Miriam Crace who was the biggest selling children's author in the world until her death exactly twenty years ago. Eliot believes that Miriam was deliberately poisoned. And when he tells Susan that he has hidden the identity of Miriam's killer inside his book, Susan knows she's in trouble once again. As Susan works on P nd's Last Case, a story set in an exotic villa in the South of France, she finds more and more parallels between the past and the present, the fictional and the real world - until suddenly she finds that she has become a target. Someone in Eliot's family doesn't want the book to be written. And they will do anything to prevent it. ______________ Praise for the Magpie Murders series . . . 'A beautiful puzzle- fiendishly clever and hugely entertaining. A masterpiece.' Lucy Foley 'Ingenious' Sunday Times 'Thrilling and compelling with a stunning twist' Daily Mail

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A masterclass in mystery writing. * Ragnar Jonasson *
Horowitz pushes back the boundaries of plot structure he creates a book within a book where the narrative and the characters of each one are cleverly mirrored. Hes a genius * Terry Deary *
Anthony Horowitz is one of my all-time favourite authors. Marble Hall Murders is a beautiful read and we are all in for a real treat * Ryan Tubridy *
Diabolically clever . . . . Horowitzs multilevel romp . . . serves up an elegant plot while lampooning writers, publishers, murderers, rich people and golden-age mystery stories. Its a clich to describe prolific authors as being at the top of their game (and often seems to suggest the opposite), but its true here. Marble Hall Murders is as cunning a mystery as youll read all year. * New York Times *
Anthony Horowitz is one of the great masters of the contemporary page turner * Andrew Marr *
Glorious fun * The Daily Telegraph *
Plenty of puzzles, red herrings and juicy murders * Daily Express *
Horowitz offers readers another page-turner of a puzzle, once again cleverly told as a story within a story * Washington Post *
The dividing lines between reality and fiction (a Horowitz trademark) are deliciously intertwined. * Financial Times *
A deliciously witty, clever, and hefty mystery * Library Journal Starred Review *

Author Bio

Anthony Horowitz is responsible for creating and writing some of the UK's most loved and successful TV series, including Midsomer Murders and Foyle's War. He is the author of the teen spy series, Alex Rider, which has sold more than twenty million copies worldwide. He has been widely praised for his murder mysteries which began with two highly acclaimed Sherlock Holmes novels and continued with the bestselling Hawthorne series in which he appears as the former detective's hapless sidekick. In January 2022 he was awarded a CBE for his services to literature. His novel, Magpie Murders, was made into a BBC drama starring Lesley Manville as editor Susan Ryeland. The sequel, Moonflower Murders, also starring Lesley Manville, was a BBC drama in 2024. Marble Hall Murders continues the story...