Literary Fiction

Magpie Murders

by Anthony Horowitz

An editor discovers the final manuscript of her star mystery author is missing its conclusion—and soon realizes the fictional murders mirror a real crime. A dazzling puzzle-box novel that nests a classic country-house whodunit inside a contemporary thriller, celebrating and subverting golden-age detective fiction.

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