{"id":182803,"date":"2025-04-13T13:34:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-13T13:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/entertainment\/books\/marble-hall-murders-by-anthony-horowitz\/"},"modified":"2025-04-13T13:34:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-13T13:34:21","slug":"marble-hall-murders-by-anthony-horowitz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=182803","title":{"rendered":"Marble Hall Murders by Anthony Horowitz"},"content":{"rendered":"


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I’ve been obsessed with Anthony Horowitz’s books<\/a> for 25 years and they just keeps getting better and better. The previous instalments in this series \u2013\u00a0Magpie Murders<\/i>\u00a0and\u00a0Moonflower Murders\u00a0<\/i>\u2013 introduced us to Susan Ryeland; a books editor turned sleuth as she discovers that the detective stories she’s editing reveal clues to real-life murder cases. Horowitz masterfully writes both a golden age whodunnit and contemporary murder mystery and deftly connects the characters \u2013 and clues \u2013 between the two. In\u00a0Marble Hall Murders<\/i> he has managed to work his magic once again. And it’s an absolute sensation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

About Marble Hall Murders<\/i> by Anthony Horowitz<\/b><\/h2>\n

While Susan thought she’d hung up her deerstalker when she moved to Crete to be with her partner, her relationship doesn’t fulfil her like her job used to do. Soon, the pull of London becomes too strong and she moves back to Crouch End, where she’s reunited with her trusty MG (a classic car) and, rather unexpectedly, Atticus P\u00fcnd.<\/p>\n

It turns out that the detective from the Alan Conway novels has a life long after its author has taken his final breath (after all, Alan was the victim all the way back in Magpie Murders<\/i>).\u00a0A series of continuation novels have been commissioned and the publishers believe that Alan’s previous editor, Susan, will be the best woman to get them into shape.<\/p>\n

But Susan knows the writer they’ve hired, Elliot Crace, as she worked with him years ago on a series of detective novels that flopped. He was trouble then \u2013 and he’s trouble now. She quickly deduces that Elliot has taken a page from Alan’s book by hiding secret messages in his work. Not only will this cause big problems for the estate of Elliot’s late grandmother \u2013 one of the most popular children’s novelists of all time \u2013 but, once again, they might reveal the culprit of a real-life murder…\u00a0<\/p>\n

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My review of Marble Hall Murders<\/i><\/h2>\n
Marble Hall Murders is a brilliant addition to the Susan Ryeland series. The first novel, Magpie Murders<\/i>, seemed to indicate a standalone story \u2013 after all, how could Susan possibly investigate another murder, her author was death and with it his characters. However, author Anthony Horowitz has very cleverly kept the doors of this world open, and created the opportunity for a whole series of new stories with the concept of continuation novels. <\/p>\n

With it come some excellent new characters, both in the\u00a0Atticus P\u00fcnd novel where our beloved detective teams up with French investigator Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Voltaire and in the present day timeline where policeman Ian Blakeney makes a real splash \u2013 in the story and<\/i> in Susan’s life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Horowitz once again masterfully weaves the two narratives together, mirroring characters from the contemporary storyline with those in the golden age whodunnit being written by Elliot Crace. And it’s all so very clever. This time around it almost feels like a book-within-a-book-within-a-book as there’s Susan’s story, Elliot’s take on a classic Atticus P\u00fcnd case, and the truth about what really happened in Elliot’s family all those years ago slowly seeping through the pages.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The clues sprinkled throughout were so very excellent and on more than one occasion I managed to connect the dots before Susan did. It made me feel rather smug, even though I am sure it played out exactly as Horowitz had plotted. There was one storyline that unfolded that did make my heart sink in despair but, thankfully, my fears were unfounded and I was able to continue reading.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I’m really grateful to actress Lesley Manville, who plays Susan Ryeland in the BBC adaptation of the books, as she convinced Horowitz to write another book. Marble Hall Murders<\/i> is so incredible that it would’ve been a real shame if we’d not been able to experience its genius. It had me utterly gripped as I devoured the Susan and Atticus chapters in equal measure. It’s very rare that a book can hold my attention as long as this one did, but I ended up reading for 4 hours straight when I needed<\/i> to find out “whodunnit”.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n

Marble Hall Murders<\/i> by Anthony Horowitz is a masterclass in storytelling. It’s clever, it’s fun, and despite the conclusion tying up a lot of loose ends this simply cannot be the last outing for Susan Ryeland and Atticus P\u00fcnd. Lesley Manville better work her magic on the author one more time…\u00a0<\/div>\n

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Marble Hall Murders<\/i> by Anthony Horowitz is published today by Century (an imprint of Penguin Books) and you can now buy your copy from your favourite local book shop!<\/b><\/p>\n

Disclaimer: This book was gifted to me, but this has not impacted this honest review.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

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