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Magpie Murders
by Anthony Horowitz
I first picked this up because of the title - I was hoping it would be another birder murder along the lines of those I've been reading by Steve Burrows. But it turns out the reference to magpies is the old nursery rhyme, One for sorrow, two for joy... So bait and switch, but it turned out to be a good read anyway.
This isn't like other mysteries I've read - it's not as "cozy". This is a story within a story, and it's more meta, discussing the process of writing a murder mystery, and the connections the stories have to real life - which might explain why this book is 500 pages long. The next book in the series is over 600 pages. I'm not sure I need to read it.
This isn't like other mysteries I've read - it's not as "cozy". This is a story within a story, and it's more meta, discussing the process of writing a murder mystery, and the connections the stories have to real life - which might explain why this book is 500 pages long. The next book in the series is over 600 pages. I'm not sure I need to read it.