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3.96 AVERAGE
3.96 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
challenging
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
funny
mysterious
relaxing
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
An enjoyable read, though not as strong as the first installment and has a few glaring plot holes. Still really into the series and i'm looking forward to the next installment. Can't wait to be reading it at a beach in the Aegean sea!
As enjoyable as the first! The author's book inside a book thing is so clever. Very well done.
Mostly enjoyed this one, although it seemed much longer than it really needed to be. The last 1/4 was the best part.
That was the trouble. In his experience, people were never interested in the abstract theory of detective work - which was the subject of his still unfinished book, The Landscape of Criminal Investigation. They wanted the sensational details: the bloody fingerprint, the smoking gun, the killer going about his work. Pünd had never seen murder as a game, not even as a puzzle to be solved. His work was an examination of humanity at its darkest and most desperate. You could not solve crime unless you understood its genesis.
Having read [b:Magpie Murders|31063914|Magpie Murders (Susan Ryeland, #1)|Anthony Horowitz|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1468342048l/31063914._SY75_.jpg|3829748] and then enjoyed the BBC adaptation, I couldn't resist diving straight into the sequel.
Like its predecessor, this is effectively two dective novels in one, and the story takes place a couple of years after the first book.
Susan Ryeland is now living in Greece and running a struggling hotel. When she is approached by the parents of a missing person, she soon finds that the disappearance is linked to a murder at the distraught family's hotel. A murder which appears to have inspired the events in one of the Atticus Pünd mysteries.
Agreeing to help the family, Susan finds herself back in England and revisiting the series of books that almost led to her untimely demise.
I really liked how [a:Anthony Horowitz|32590|Anthony Horowitz|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1301176549p2/32590.jpg] gives you the full story Atticus Pünd story, which contains all the clues needed to work out what happened all those years ago and what may have led to the disappearance.
Very cleaver. 4 1/2 stars.
Having read [b:Magpie Murders|31063914|Magpie Murders (Susan Ryeland, #1)|Anthony Horowitz|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1468342048l/31063914._SY75_.jpg|3829748] and then enjoyed the BBC adaptation, I couldn't resist diving straight into the sequel.
Like its predecessor, this is effectively two dective novels in one, and the story takes place a couple of years after the first book.
Susan Ryeland is now living in Greece and running a struggling hotel. When she is approached by the parents of a missing person, she soon finds that the disappearance is linked to a murder at the distraught family's hotel. A murder which appears to have inspired the events in one of the Atticus Pünd mysteries.
Agreeing to help the family, Susan finds herself back in England and revisiting the series of books that almost led to her untimely demise.
I really liked how [a:Anthony Horowitz|32590|Anthony Horowitz|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1301176549p2/32590.jpg] gives you the full story Atticus Pünd story, which contains all the clues needed to work out what happened all those years ago and what may have led to the disappearance.
Very cleaver. 4 1/2 stars.
3.5
Very creative but Susan is no Atticus and she drove me a bit crazy during her "investigation" however overall strong writing and I loved seeing Atticus again.
Loved both of the investigations but just not as much as the first one.
I felt like crying laughing at one part toward the end when all the suspects were in the room together....Very British LOL
I am really a fan overall. Love Horowitz.
Very creative but Susan is no Atticus and she drove me a bit crazy during her "investigation" however overall strong writing and I loved seeing Atticus again.
Loved both of the investigations but just not as much as the first one.
I felt like crying laughing at one part toward the end when all the suspects were in the room together....Very British LOL
I am really a fan overall. Love Horowitz.
funny
informative
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
What a fun, twisty (not so) little whodunnit.
I was skeptical about this one, because it seemed on the surface like it would just be the same thing all over again, when the resolution of the first book would seem to make that impossible. But he made it work! I should have trusted. This is a 600-ish page book that I read feverishly in about two days one weekend in July.
Some spoilers for book one below; you have been warned.
We return to former book editor Susan Ryeland as our main character. She’s now living in Cyprus with her partner Andreas, running a small hotel. It’s running her a bit dry and she’s beginning to have doubts about her choice to take on the whole endeavor and give up editing. This time she’s drawn into a murder mystery once again involving her former author, Alan Conway (now deceased), and his famous detective protagonist, Atticus Pünd. She’s approached by a couple who have traveled all the way to Cyprus because they know she was Conway’s editor, and they think Conway knew the answer to a mystery that has been plaguing them, and which may be responsible for the disappearance of their daughter. The couple, the Trehearnes, run a hotel in the English countryside where Conway once came to stay, and who wrote a book based on his experiences there trying to solve a murder that happened there on Cecily’s wedding weekend. They believe Cecily read the book, also solved the murder, and that is the reason she has disappeared. They want to pay Susan a goodly sum of money to come to England look into Cecily’s disappearance.
This of course means she dives back into one of Conway’s books, one she hasn’t read in years, and we in turn also get to read another book within a book.
I enjoyed both mysteries, and I thought it was clever of Horowitz to dive into Conway’s back catalogue, and perfectly apt that the little shit would have cannibalized a real-life tragedy for his fiction, not caring how he portrayed real people in the process. I also appreciated that Susan was not just a cypher here, she actually had quite a bit of character growth as a result of everything that happens.
If you’re looking for a double dose of whodunnit with a splash of meta, this book captures that magic again, just as the first one did.
[4.5 stars]
I was skeptical about this one, because it seemed on the surface like it would just be the same thing all over again, when the resolution of the first book would seem to make that impossible. But he made it work! I should have trusted. This is a 600-ish page book that I read feverishly in about two days one weekend in July.
Some spoilers for book one below; you have been warned.
We return to former book editor Susan Ryeland as our main character. She’s now living in Cyprus with her partner Andreas, running a small hotel. It’s running her a bit dry and she’s beginning to have doubts about her choice to take on the whole endeavor and give up editing. This time she’s drawn into a murder mystery once again involving her former author, Alan Conway (now deceased), and his famous detective protagonist, Atticus Pünd. She’s approached by a couple who have traveled all the way to Cyprus because they know she was Conway’s editor, and they think Conway knew the answer to a mystery that has been plaguing them, and which may be responsible for the disappearance of their daughter. The couple, the Trehearnes, run a hotel in the English countryside where Conway once came to stay, and who wrote a book based on his experiences there trying to solve a murder that happened there on Cecily’s wedding weekend. They believe Cecily read the book, also solved the murder, and that is the reason she has disappeared. They want to pay Susan a goodly sum of money to come to England look into Cecily’s disappearance.
This of course means she dives back into one of Conway’s books, one she hasn’t read in years, and we in turn also get to read another book within a book.
I enjoyed both mysteries, and I thought it was clever of Horowitz to dive into Conway’s back catalogue, and perfectly apt that the little shit would have cannibalized a real-life tragedy for his fiction, not caring how he portrayed real people in the process. I also appreciated that Susan was not just a cypher here, she actually had quite a bit of character growth as a result of everything that happens.
If you’re looking for a double dose of whodunnit with a splash of meta, this book captures that magic again, just as the first one did.
[4.5 stars]