![]() ![]() Just as the novel unfolds, the editor tells readers how Conway’s “Magpie Murders” had totally changed her life. ![]() (Possibly contains some spoilers – read at your own risk beyond this point) Conway’s Atticus Pund novels are set just after WWII and follow the adventures of the German detective and Holocaust survivor, solving mysteries in the British countryside. ![]() The novel starts with an editor reading the latest mystery by writer Alan Conway, called “Magpie Murders.” Alan Conway is the editor’s publishing house’s biggest star, and “Magpie Murders” is the 9th and final novel in the author’s hugely popular mystery series starring the brilliant but eccentric detective, Atticus Pund. You’ll get just that with Magpie Murders. ![]() I have yet to read House of Silk, but the book that helped me out of my rut was his 2016 novel, Magpie Murders.Ī novel with one whoddunit mystery is good, and a novel with two whodunnit mysteries is even better. When it comes to mysteries, no one is better than Anthony Horowitz, who is good enough for Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s estate, which gave him permission to write two new Sherlock Holmes novels, namely, House of Silk and Moriarty. There’s nothing like a good whoddunit to get you out of a reading rut. ![]()
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