The search for a missing chapter in a new book leads to murder.

Drama

Ryeland is a successful editor – but her career is threatened when the newmystery novel by her number one author turns up with its final chapter missing. Her life is further complicated when she becomes involved in a murder.

Magpie Murders

Lesley Manville is an editor drawn into a web of intrigue & murder

Lesley Manville stars in this gripping mystery within a mystery. An editor gets drawn into a web of intrigue and murder when she receives an unfinished manuscript. 

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Two murders. One in a book, one in real life. How are they linked?

Susan arrives in Suffolk, searching for the missing chapter and discovers that AlanConway used everyone he knew as characters in his book, the story of a detective called Atticus Pünd, set in 1955. It looks as if one of them may have murdered him.

Susan’s private life is in turmoil as she tries to close in on the killer.

Susan’s personal life unravels when her boyfriend, Andreas, tells her that he’s goinghome to Crete and he wants her to come with her. Still searching for the missing chapterand investigating Alan’s death, she receives help from an unexpected source.

As Alan Conway is buried, Susan Ryeland gets help from an unexpected source.

In 1955, Sir Magnus Pye is buried while, in the present day, Alan Conway is also laid to rest. Characters from the novel cross over with people from real life. But which one of them is the killer?

A tragedy at the lake at Pye Hall reveals some dark secrets from the past.

Andreas is now the prime suspect in the murder of Alan Conway. Atticus Pünd continues to help her with her investigation. At the same time, the death of Sir Magnus Pye leads him to a past tragedy.

The discovery of the missing chapter leads to a great many revelations.

Susan finds the missing chapter and it tells her the identity of the killer. Atticus Pünd invites her on an unforgettable journey as he unravels the secrets of the past.

Magpie Murders

Magpie Murders

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