The creative framework for this book within a book is expertly executed. It will hook you, and afterwards you’ll be drawn right back out into Susan’s world pulled into another murder mystery surrounding the manuscript and the author. It’s a quintessential cozy murder mystery set in a quaint English village. The first half of this book is the manuscript Susan was editing. The manuscript seems to be presented in its entirety, complete with the title page, the “About the Author” page, and so on, much as you might find at the start of any novel. Susan addresses the reader directly, ominously stating: “Unlike me, you have been warned”.įrom there the book jumps straight into the manuscript Susan was editing – also called the “Magpie Murders”, but written by the fictional character, author Alan Conway. At the start of Magpie Murders Susan describes how she sat down to edit the latest manuscript in the series, only to have her life change completely. Susan is the editor of a bestselling detective series called the “Atticus Pund” mysteries.
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