Don't miss the TV series premiering on PBS MASTERPIECE Mystery October
16th!
"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 Pünd, 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 Pünd 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.
