Monday, August 9, 2021

Magpie Murders by Anthony Horowitz

This book was an interesting idea. It was a murder mystery within a murder mystery--the book was about an editor for a murder mystery who reads one of the books she's about to edit and discovers that the ending was missing. And then immediately the author of the book is murdered. And then things start happening and she begins to poke around and try to find out if she can figure out what happened to the missing pages of the manuscript, and what really happened to the author of the book and why he was murdered. I liked both stories (the "book within the book" and then the outside story as well) and I was surprised by the ending. (I'm not that good at guessing who the murderer is in any murder mystery though, so that doesn't mean much.) Overall, I liked this one a lot, although it did feel a bit long.

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