Just finished the Magpie Murders (no spoilers)
Wow! Certainly different from the usual whodonit. It is a murder within a murder. One fictional, in a book, the other - real.
And while I kinda guessed who the murderer was in the real plot - though with no motives - the fictional murder mystery was a complete surprise.
Anthony Horowitz really does not take himself too seriously. He followed Agatha Christie style and characters - in the fictional story. In the real story he throws, without shame, examples of mysteries that he brought to TV (English) like Midsomer Mruders and Foyle's Wars.
I am no books critic, but the way he uses different styles for the fictional and the real ones - they really merged together.
If you are tired of Trump and company, of N. Korea, of the hurricanes, this is a great way to ignore the outside world, For at least several hours.
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Borrowing from the library and usually selecting older books. But we were at Barnes & Noble looking for 2018 calendars, and on the reduced price table was a book titled: A Murder of Magpie by Judith Flanders. Yes, I was confused, went to reference desk and when someone brought me the "correct" book, I purchased it.
My spouse is facing a long line, too, for the e-book of Hillbilly Elegy - and this is from last year!
...I'd like to see Horowitz write some actual Atticus Pundt stories...
