The Trehernes' daughter, Cecily, read Conway’s mystery and believed the book proves that the man convicted of Parris’s murder-a Romanian immigrant who was the hotel’s handyman-is innocent. Conway based the third book in his detective series, Atticus Pund Takes the Cake, on that very crime. One of her former writers, the late Alan Conway, author of the fictional Magpie Murders, knew the murder victim-an advertising executive named Frank Parris-and once visited Branlow Hall. The strange and mysterious story they tell, about an unfortunate murder that took place on the same day and in the same hotel in which their daughter was married-a picturesque inn on the Suffolk coast named Branlow Hall-fascinates Susan and piques her editor’s instincts. But is it? She's exhausted with the responsibilities of making everything work on an island where nothing ever does, and truth be told she's beginning to miss London.Īnd then the Trehernes come to stay. It should be everything she's always wanted. She is running a small hotel on a Greek island with her long-term boyfriend Andreas. Retired publisher Susan Ryeland is living the good life. Featuring his famous literary detective Atticus Pund and Susan Ryeland, hero of the worldwide bestseller Magpie Murders, a brilliantly complex literary thriller with echoes of Agatha Christie from New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz.

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