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Magpie Murders
Susan Ryeland (Related to this series)
- Author
- Anthony Horowitz
- Narrator
- Allan Corduner, Samantha Bond
- Publisher
- Orion
- Publish Date
- 6 October 2016
- Run Time
- 15 hours 48 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Crime and / or mystery fiction, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Historical crime and mysteries
- Rating
- 5.0 (3 reviews)
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What to expect
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: MARBLE HALL MURDERS, the fiendishly brilliant follow-up to Magpie Murders and Moonflower 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
Critics Review
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Want to read a great whodunnit? Anthony Horowitz has one for you: MAGPIE MURDERS. It's as good as an Agatha Christie. Better, in some ways. Cleverer.
Stephen King
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An ingenious novel-within-a-novel whodunit about the death of a crime writer . . . Part crime novel, part pastiche, this magnificent piece of crime fiction plays with the genre while also taking it seriously
Sunday Times
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A cunning re-invention of the thriller formula
Mail on Sunday
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Superbly written, with great suspects, a perfect period feel and a cracking reveal at the end
Spectator
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A stylish, multi-layered thriller - playful, ingenious and wonderfully entertaining
Sunday Mirror
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Brilliant. Really, really brilliant. I loved it.
Sophie Hannah, author of The Monogram Murders
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Putting two books in one with their plots running side by side makes Magpie Murders difficult to put down and Horowitz fans will thoroughly enjoy a cracking good read
Daily Express
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Although at first glance Horowitz's latest offering appears to be a classic whodunit novel, it will almost certainly prove to be unlike anything you've ever read before, and will have you mulling over its various intrigues in between sittings.
Scotsman
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Anthony Horowitz's new novel is at once a brilliant pastiche of the English village mystery and a hugely enjoyable tale of avarice and skulduggery in the world of publishing . . . a compendium of dark delights
Irish Times
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We loved this Agatha Christie-esque crime novel. A fiendish mystery within a mystery that will have you hooked from page one
Good Housekeeping
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A highly enjoyable twist on the classic whodunnit
Metro
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Horowitz is a superb pasticheur.
Guardian
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Details
- Author
- Anthony Horowitz
- Narrator
- Allan Corduner, Samantha Bond
- Duration
- 15 hours 48 minutes
- Release Date
- 6 October 2016
- ISBN
- 9781409161714
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Orion
- Genre
- Crime and / or mystery fiction, Classic crime and mystery fiction, Historical crime and mysteries
- Rating
- 5.0(3 reviews)
- Narration
- 5.0(3 reviews)
Synopsis
The first Atticus Pund and Susan Ryeland mystery from bestselling author Anthony Horowitz, and inspiration for the major hit BBC series MAGPIE MURDERS.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: MARBLE HALL MURDERS, the fiendishly brilliant follow-up to Magpie Murders and Moonflower MurdersPraise 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
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