Marble Hall Murders

About the book

From the bestselling author Anthony Horowitz comes a new crime novel in the bestselling Magpie Murders series, in which editor Susan Ryeland must uncover the clues in an Atticus Pünd mystery to solve a murder. She’s edited two novels about the famous detective, Atticus Pünd, 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 Pünd’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. An escapist mystery and fiendishly clever whodunnit, Marble Hall Murders is perfect for fans of Agatha Christie's Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.

Where the score comes from

The sources average 8.0 across 57 ratings — not yet many, so the reader vote carries 28% of the weight and the rest pulls toward the Crime & mystery average of 7.6. That is how 7.7 comes out.

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