Magpie Murders (the Sunday Times Bestseller Now On Bbc Iplayer)

By (author) Horowitz, Anthony
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Sunday Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz offers up a whodunit like no other in this fiendish crime thriller - perfect for fans of Agatha Christie vintage crime.
Chosen for the Duchess of Cornwall''s online book club The Reading Room

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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

''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.

*****

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
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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.
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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
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A cunning re-invention of the thriller formula
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Superbly written, with great suspects, a perfect period feel and a cracking reveal at the end
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A stylish, multi-layered thriller - playful, ingenious and wonderfully entertaining
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Brilliant. Really, really brilliant. I loved it.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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A highly enjoyable twist on the classic whodunnit
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Horowitz is a superb pasticheur.
Biographical note

Anthony Horowitz is one of the UK''s most prolific and successful writers. His novels The House of Silk and Moriarty were Sunday Times Top 10 bestsellers and sold in more than thirty-five countries around