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Magpie murders volume 1
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A "brilliant and strikingly original reimagining of the classic whodunit (a la Agatha Christie) with a contemporary mystery wrapped around it"-- After working with bestselling crime writer Alan Conway for years, editor Susan Ryeland is intimately familiar with his detective, Atticus Pünd, who solves mysteries in sleepy English villages. His traditional formula has proved hugely successful, so successful that Susan must continue to put up with his...
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Marder's wife is dead. The news about her family in Mexico was the coup de grâce, and she left this life as deliberately as she lived it. He blames himself, as does his son, who hasn't spoken to him for too long. Marder lives alone, works alone, and feels alone. After yet another piece of shattering news, he makes a plan. But he doesn't count on his old friend Patrick Francis Skelly--who knows him better than any other living person--joining him....