Magpie Murders: A Novel

"Magpie Murders is a whodunit about whodunits and a mystery within a mystery. It opens on a rainy day in London as an editor at a small publishing company settles in to read the latest from a best-selling mystery writer. But a chapter is missing, and when the editor-turned-sleuth sets out to track it down she stumbles into a real murder mystery that parallels the fictional one. Anthony Horowitz, a master of the genre, packs his story with all the elements of a good whodunit: a quaint English village, a slew of suspects, convoluted motives and alibis and a clever plot twist. He seemed to have a really good time writing this book and so will fans of mystery novels when they read it."