Marble Hall Murders
The BRAND NEW novel in the major hit BBC series Magpie Murders from the Sunday Times bestselling author
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- USD 12.99
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- USD 12.99
Descripción editorial
From bestselling author, Anthony Horowitz, comes a new novel in the bestselling Magpie Murders series in which editor, Susan Ryeland, uncovers the clues in an Atticus Pünd mystery to solve a murder.
'A masterclass in mystery writing’ Ragnar Jónasson
'Expect plenty of puzzles, red herrings and juicy murders' Express
'Horowitz is a genius' Terry Deary
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Susan Ryeland has had enough of murder.
She’s edited two novels about the famous detective, Atticus Pünd, 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 Pünd’s Last Case, a story set in an exotic villa in the South of France, she uncovers 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 herself.
It seems that someone in Eliot’s family doesn’t want the book to be written. And they will do anything to prevent it.
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More love for Marble Hall Murders:
'Diabolically clever' New York Times
'The computer isn’t born that can out-plot Horowitz’ The Daily Telegraph
'Worthy of Agatha Christie' Publishers Weekly, Starred Review
'[A] page-turner of a puzzle' Washington Post
'Horowitz is one of the great masters of the contemporary page turner’ Andrew Marr
'Anthony Horowitz is one of my all-time favourite authors. Marble Hall Murders is a beautiful read' Ryan Tubridy
Readers love Marble Hall Murders:
‘A must-read!’ 5-star reader review
‘One of the top crime books of 2025’ 5-star reader review
‘Absolutely brilliant!’ 5-star reader review
‘Smart, gorgeously written and compelling’ 5-star reader review
‘An excellent whodunnit’ 5-star reader review
‘Absolute perfection’ 5-star reader review
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Horowitz dazzles with the brilliant third entry in his Susan Ryeland series (after Moonflower Murders). At the outset, Susan has just broken up with her Greek boyfriend, Andreas, leaving him and their bustling Crete hotel behind for her dreary London flat and a new freelance project with Causton Books. She's been hired to edit the late Alan Conway's unfinished final novel featuring detective Atticus Pund, which has been completed by young writer Eliot Crace. Soon, Susan discovers an ulterior motive behind Eliot's additions to the story: he believes someone in his violently competitive family poisoned his famous grandmother, Miriam Crace, author of an überpopular children's book series and owner of Marble Hall estate, and has nestled clues about his suspicions in Conway's manuscript, using the fictional Chalfonts as a stand-in for the Craces. Thus Horowitz throws down a gauntlet for the reader: will finding the killer in Eliot's novel, which takes up a solid chunk of this book's page count, translate to a conviction in the frame story? Horowitz is at the top of his game here, linking past and present in a virtuoso finale worthy of Agatha Christie. Fans will clamor for the sequel.
