The Magpie Murders - Book 1
Magpie Murders
“Samantha Bond begins enticingly with her husky vibrato and fully realized performance as a contemporary book editor who’s been given a murder-mystery manuscript. Soon, we’re in the midst of that book, set in 1955 and performed by Allan Corduner with a delightful bow toward the storytellers of old…Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”
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A June 2017 LibraryReads Pick
Winner of an AudioFile Earphones Award
Libro.fm Audio Bestseller
A 2018 Audie Award Finalist for Best Mystery Narration
A Washington Post Best Book of 2017
An Esquire Magazine Best Book of the Year
An NPR Best Book of 2017
An Amazon Best Book of 2017
Selected for the Indie Next List
Finalist for the Library Journal Best Audiobook Listen List
Finalist for the 2018 Anthony Award for Best Novel
A LibraryReads Favorites of the Favorites selection
A BookRiot Pick of 7 Terrific Audiobooks with Theatrical Narrators
Winner of the Macavity Award
A New York Times Bestseller
Narrated by Samantha Bond
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""A double puzzle for puzzle fans, who don't often get the classicism they want from contemporary thrillers."" -Janet Maslin, New York Times
New York Times Bestseller | Winner of the Macavity Award for Best Novel | NPR Best Book of the Year | Washington Post Best Book of the Year | Esquire Best Book of the Year
From the New York Times bestselling author of Moriarty and Trigger Mortis, this fiendishly brilliant, riveting thriller weaves a classic whodunit worthy of Agatha Christie into a chilling, ingeniously original modern-day mystery.
When editor Susan Ryeland is given the manuscript of Alan Conway's latest novel, she has no reason to think it will be much different from any of his others. After working with the bestselling crime writer for years, she's intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pünd, who solves mysteries disturbing sleepy English villages. An homage to queens of classic British crime such as Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers, Alan's traditional formula has proved hugely successful. So successful that Susan must continue to put up with his troubling behavior if she wants to keep her job.
Conway's latest tale has Atticus Pünd investigating a murder at Pye Hall, a local manor house. Yes, there are dead bodies and a host of intriguing suspects, but the more Susan reads, the more she's convinced that there is another story hidden in the pages of the manuscript: one of real-life jealousy, greed, ruthless ambition, and murder.
Masterful, clever, and relentlessly suspenseful, Magpie Murders is a deviously dark take on vintage English crime fiction in which the reader becomes the detective.
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