Marble Hall Murders

'A masterclass in mystery writing' Ragnar Jonasson 'Expect plenty of puzzles, red herrings and juicy murders' Express 'Worthy of Agatha Christie' Publishers Weekly *Starred Review* 'The computer isn't born that can out-plot Horowitz . . . Glorious fun' The Daily Telegraph ______________ Susan Ryeland has had enough of murder. She's edited two novels about the famous detective, Atticus Pund, 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 Pund'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. ______________ More love for Marble Hall Murders: 'Diabolically clever . . .It's a cliche to describe prolific authors as being at the top of their game (and often seems to suggest the opposite), but it's true here. Marble Hall Murders is as cunning a mystery as you'll read all year' New York Times 'The dividing lines between reality and fiction (a Horowitz trademark) are deliciously intertwined' Financial Times 'A masterfully constructed whodunit' The Business Standard '[A] page-turner of a puzzle' Washington Post Review: A masterclass in mystery writing. * Ragnar Jonasson * Anthony Horowitz is one of my all-time favourite authors. Marble Hall Murders is a beautiful read and we are all in for a real treat * Ryan Tubridy * Diabolically clever . . . . Horowitz's multilevel romp . . . serves up an elegant plot while lampooning writers, publishers, murderers, rich people and golden-age mystery stories. It's a cliche to describe prolific authors as being at the top of their game (and often seems to suggest the opposite), but it's true here. Marble Hall Murders is as cunning a mystery as you'll read all year. * New York Times * Anthony Horowitz is one of the great masters of the contemporary page turner * Andrew Marr * Glorious fun * The Daily Telegraph * Plenty of puzzles, red herrings and juicy murders * Daily Express * Horowitz offers readers another page-turner of a puzzle, once again cleverly told as a story within a story * Washington Post * The dividing lines between reality and fiction (a Horowitz trademark) are deliciously intertwined. * Financial Times * A deliciously witty, clever, and hefty mystery * Library Journal Starred Review * 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 * Publishers Weekly Starred Review * Author Biography: Anthony Horowitz is responsible for creating and writing some of the UK's most loved and successful TV series, including Midsomer Murders and Foyle's War. He is the author of the teen spy series, Alex Rider, which has sold more than twenty million copies worldwide. He has been widely praised for his murder mysteries which began with two highly acclaimed Sherlock Holmes novels and continued with the bestselling Hawthorne series in which he appears as the former detective's hapless sidekick. In January 2022 he was awarded a CBE for his services to literature. His novel, Magpie Murders, was made into a BBC drama starring Lesley Manville as editor Susan Ryeland. The sequel, Moonflower Murders, also starring Lesley Manville, was a BBC drama in 2024. Marble Hall Murders continues the story...