Magpie Murders

"Magpie Murders is a double puzzle for puzzle fans, who don't often get the classicism they want from contemporary thrillers." --Janet Maslin, New York Times
"Magpie Murders is an ingenious, twisting tribute to the sleepy English countryside murder and will thoroughly entertain readers of old fashioned detective thrillers."--New York Journal of Books
"Magpie Murders [is] a fiendishly clever literary puzzle."--Fort Worth Star-Telegram
"A perfect summer read from the author of Moriarty."--AARP Magazine
"A treat for fans of golden age mysteries.... [A] tour de force .... Horowitz throws in several wicked twists.... Highly satisfying."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"An ingenious funhouse mirror of a novel sets a vintage 'cozy' mystery inside a modern frame."--Wall Street Journal
"Anthony Horowitz's Magpie Murders is catnip for classic mystery lovers... With its elegant yet playful plotting, Magpie Murders is the thinking mystery fan's ideal summer thriller."--Time Magazine
"Doubly Devilish."--People
"Each of the narratives in Magpie Murders is engaging and fluid, each with its own charm, though Horowitz's joyful act of Christie ventriloquism is, in particular, spectacularly impressive."--Washington Post
"Horowitz..has devised an ingenious whodunit within a whodunit, a metamystery with Agatha Christie roots."--O, the Oprah Magazine
"There's much to enjoy in Anthony Horowitz's spry, sardonic Magpie Murders."--Guardian
"Fans who still mourn the passing of Agatha Christie...will welcome this wildly inventive homage...as the most fiendishly clever puzzle--make that two puzzles--of the year."--Kirkus Reviews (starred)
"A compendium of dark delights. . . . A brilliant pastiche of the English village mystery and a hugely enjoyable tale of avarice and skullduggery in the world of publishing."--Irish Times
"A stylish, multi-layered thriller--playful, ingenious and wonderfully entertaining."--Sunday Mirror
"An extravagant circus of a novel, part high-wire act, part funhouse mirror. Intricate, bold, stone-cold clever-- both comfortably old-fashioned and thrillingly new."--A.J. Finn, author of The Woman in the Window
"An ingenious novel-within-a-novel . . . part crime novel, part pastiche, this magnificent piece of crime fiction plays with the genre while also taking it seriously."--Sunday Times
"Anthony Horowitz has devised a fiendish mystery within a mystery that will have you hooked from page one. We loved this Agatha Christie-esque crime novel."--Good Housekeeping (UK)
"Brilliant. Really, really brilliant. I loved it."--Sophie Hannah, author of The Monogram Murders
"Superbly written, with great suspects, a perfect period feel, and a cracking reveal at the end."--The Spectator
"This can only be described as incredibly clever--but what else would you expect from Horowitz?"--The Herald (Glasgow)