Magpie Murders: The Sunday Times bestseller now on BBC iPlayer

by Anthony Horowitz

Allan Corduner (Narrator) and Samantha Bond (Narrator)

Chosen for the Duchess of Cornwall's online book club The Reading Room

'The finest crime novel of the year' Daily Mail

Seven for a mystery that needs to be solved . . .

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.

From the creator of Midsomer Murders comes a fiendish mystery perfect for fans of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.

Now available to preorder: MOONFLOWER MURDERS, the fiendishly brilliant follow-up to Magpie Murders

Praise for Magpie Murders - the gripping Sunday Times bestselling crime thriller:

'Ingenious' Sunday Times
'Thrilling and compelling with a stunning twist' Daily Mail
'A stylish thriller' Sunday Mirror
'A cunning reinvention of the thriller' Mail on Sunday

• ISBN10: 1409161714
• ISBN13: 9781409161714
• Publish Date: 6 October 2016 (first published 18 October 2006)
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
• Imprint: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
• Edition: Unabridged edition
• Format: Audiobook (MP3)
• Duration: 15 hours and 48 minutes
• Language: English

Reviews

[lisacee]

This was an interesting book, a mystery within a mystery, but it just kept going. There were multiple times that I thought they could wrap the story up. By the end, I wasn't enjoying the book - by that point I just had to finish it.

On the plus side, I didn't guess whodunnit.

[Beth C.]

I'm not usually much of a "whodunnit" sort, though I do occasionally find something that I find interesting. This one certainly fit the bill - a mystery within a mystery. And honestly, if Horowitz decided to create a series based upon the detective in the book within the book, I would quite happily read it.

I'm glad I took a chance on reading this one - I'm afraid I've neglected far too many of things I should have been doing today in order to read, but...I can't say I'm too upset about it ;)