The release date for the English version of 'Magpie Murders' by
Anthony Horowitz is Jun 2017. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
Author of best-selling crime novels is Alan Conway. After years of collaboration, his publisher Susan Ryeland knows him and his investigator, Atticus Pünd, well. Pünd solves crimes that unsettle quiet English communities. Alan's tried-and-true method honours the great British mystery writers, such Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers. It has been very successful. So successful that in order for Susan to maintain her work, she has to put up with his unsettling behaviour.
Susan has no reason to believe that Alan's most recent manuscript—in which Atticus Pünd looks into a murder at the English manor home Pye Hall—will be any different from the others when she gets it. There will be lots of red herrings and clues, dead corpses, and an interesting array of suspects. However, as Susan continues to read, she becomes increasingly aware that the book contains a different tale, one of ambition, envy, and greed, and that this story would eventually result in murder.
A deviously twisted spin on classic detective fiction, Magpie Murders is masterful, witty, and viciously suspenseful.