Magpie Murders | 
so-soAudiobook. It passed the time. Not a single likeable nor compelling character in the book or the book-within-the-book. Very over-explained, details reiterated again and again. Well narrated, which carried it for me. I do have the second book in progress (bought them together) and so far it's a wee bit better.
It's a classic murder mystery. A story within a story. Both are brilliantly plotted with crafty twists and captivating characters. Truly enjoyable!
Not a case of #KAL, but Her Feline Highness #GhostCat is sitting on my knitting pattern and hence I have to enjoy my #audiobook without #audioknitting.
The disadvantage of sitting here with idle hands, I see the dirty spots that need to be spring-cleaned.
#KnittersOfLitsy #CatsOfLitsy
pickA murder-mystery within a murder-mystery and both of them compelling in themselves. I loved this one! It is unique and clever!
pickThis was fabulous!! I love the book within a book and LOVE the Clue-esque way Atticus explains the machinations behind the murder. @RaeLovesToRead thanks for the glowing rec, I loved it!! This was my #doublespin for January, @TheAromaofBooks 😊
Despite how much I read, there are actually very few photos of me with a book.
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- Magpie Murders, closely followed by 8 detectives. Also loved A Fatal Crossing & The Woman in Cabin 10
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- Locked room - especially a country house, or a secluded island. Also a decent cast of zany characters!
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pickHusband and I recently binged the TV series so it fun read. Little bit different so it had some surprises. Definitely want to read Book 2.
pickThe META!!!! Even as a relative newbie to the murder mystery genre, this was engrossing on a number of levels, in how it plays with the tropes of, existing canon of, and popular perceptions of, the murder mystery genre. 1/?
Did they end up creating the phrase 'war crimes', because they wanted to differentiate what they would actually arrest people for, from all the awful things that normally happen in war? 😞
pickThis is a small town murder mystery but written wonderfully in a unique manner. Loved it! The work is detailed with twisty plots. I couldn‘t stop reading it so switched to audio. I am going to read other books of this series . 4.5🌟
This was my #May #bookspin #bookspinbingo #serieslove2023
pickAbsolutely loved this!
This is basically an episode of Midsomer Murders wrapped in an episode of Poirot. MY TWO FAVOURITE MURDER THINGS!!!!!
It's a clever and entertaining love letter to detective fiction. Very meta. Some great moments.
I just wish we could read the whole Atticus Pünd series 💕💕
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I think any lover of murder mysteries will agree with this page 💕
The whodunnit is a uniquely satisfying format.
pickThis was my bookclubs February pick. I read this last year before the PBS series aired. I decided to re-read it for bookclub mainly so I didn‘t mix up the book and the show😬 I love a good murder mystery.
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1) Expands my mind - knowledge, imagination, empathy. Sometimes I even enjoy it 😋
2) I'm looking forward to reading my current reads:- The Priory of the Orange Tree & Magpie Murders.
3) Stuart Turton (mystery with a difference), and even more recently, I've been impressed by Tom Hindle, David Olusoga, Kiley Reid, Masako Togawa, Dave Eggers, and Emily St John Mandel.
pickMy husband and I finished up this audiobook on our drive "home" for Thanksgiving. We've been listening to it whenever we've been in the car over the last few weeks. I've enjoyed talking it over with him as we've gone along.
pickVery suspenseful; I couldn't put it down--though I found it difficult to remember what happened a few days later. Is that because there are too many details, or is my brain slowing down in retirement? Regardless, a fun read!
Favorite quote: “Alan invented all sorts of ways of expressing things so that only he and I understood. He used language as a place for us to hide.“
pickA soft pick. I have a feeling this will be a case of me enjoying the series more than the book. It was entertaining enough but went on a bit too long. Also was too similar to The Appeal in terms of it being a “cosy mystery.” Need to get back to my gritty serial killers. 😈
pickI enjoyed this book. When I first went into it, I was afraid I might be confused by the concept of a book within a book, but I wasn‘t. I also didn‘t guess the murderer in either story until very near the end. Anthony Horowitz has yet to disappoint me. Now I can watch the show. 😊#audiowalk
Temperatures are back up in the 80s now. It was 85° when I was out walking. I have a little over three hours left in this book, so I‘ll probably finish it sometime this week. I went to the Catholic college up the road from me and walked for a bit on their grounds. It‘s such a beautiful campus. #audiowalk
I got all engrossed in the book within a book; now I‘m back to the book editor‘s story. I‘m not used to it yet. #audiowalk
So far, I‘m enjoying this. Where Hawthorne, in Horowitz‘s other detective series, reminds me of Sherlock Holmes, Pünd, in The Magpie Murders, is reminiscent of Hercule Poirot. #audiowalk
I saw the book cartoon right after watching an episode of Magpie Murders on PBS. Timing is everything. 😂
Scarathalon photo prompt: Murder. I read this one quickly for a book group, so I may actually try to reread it before I watch the new Masterpiece Mystery PBS miniseries it inspired. #murder #photoprompt #TeamSlaughter #Scarathalon22
First episode of Magpie Murders on PBS was great! Definitely tuning in each Sunday night for more!! 🔪🕵️♂️📖
Do you ever pick up a book only to realize that it is not at all what you expected? I didn‘t realize that this was essentially an entire small English village murder mystery a la Agatha Christie embedded in another mystery novel. That would be fine, except it‘s not what I want to be reading right now, so I am putting it to the side. I‘ll probably come back to it at a later date.
pickA mystery book within a mystery book, both containing mysteries that allude to one another. A nested murder mystery, by Horowitz who I was more familiar with from his TV work. Plenty of call backs to his TV roots and little cozy mystery tie-ins that are made throughout. It was a really fun read, even if I was able to pick out the killer fairly early on.
pickWoohoo! Finished my Book Club‘s latest pick and met my Goodreads reading challenge for the year. AND, most importantly, I enjoyed this multi-novel read. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
pickI picked this one up on a total lark. I‘ve never read this author before but found this story almost “unputdownable” to be honest.
pickI‘d never heard of this book, nor the author. But my husband knows I love crows and picked it up for me on a whim one day based solely on the cover.
Holy cow, it turned out to be such a great read!! Two books in one. A handful of characters which you have to try and keep straight. A quaint setting including a mansion. Death. It brought to mind the game Clue and how, if it was a book, this would probably be it.
pickA clever dual mystery, with lots of clues that don‘t seem to fit and an equal amount of likeable, unlikeable, and just plain suspicious characters. I found it a little slow paced, and there were some digs at the publishing industry that felt a little pointed, but overall a fun read. Susan was an engagingly unwilling detective, and I think I‘ll read the next one…
pickThis was a fun contemporary mystery. I don‘t want to give too much detail because it‘s the kind of thing you‘re better off not knowing too much about before you go in.
His side. Her side. ♥️🖤
I like how the book covers are complementing each other. I‘ll be borrowing Bad Blood from my husband later. I‘m intrigued by the scandal.
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A splash of red to get into the spirit of Valentine‘s day.
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This book has been on my TBR for so long and I am glad that I finally got to read this book-within-a-book murder mystery.
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pickLoved this mystery within a mystery. I‘ve only read two Agatha Christie novels so I know I missed many references to her detectives and stories, but that‘s okay by me. The number of clues and suspects that kept layering on made this a truly fun read.
I‘m 67% through this mystery coiled around a mystery manuscript, and I keep thinking about this quote from early on in the story. What was on the vicar‘s desk? I‘m sure Mary saw whatever it was, but is the whatever even relevant? Going to try to finish this one today because I‘m bursting to know all the secrets!
panI found this to be highly irritating. From funky numbering of pages to stories within stories, it felt pretentious and overindulgent. I like other series by this Author but this one was a dud.
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A lot of easy reading in August as it was a lovely week in Northumberland so I am going purely on that memory of reading with fish and chips, beer, views, the North Sea and of course already excellent whodunnit with opportunity for a good litsy photo. We must be a strange breed of people who can probably be spotted in the wild trying to artisticly pose books for photos with family looking on askance.
Having a wonderful time on the Cape Peninsula after a lot of anxiety earlier in the week. My friend took me of a tour along the coast of the peninsula this morning/early afternoon. It's so gorgeous here! And right now I have nothing to do except read my fantastic, completely engrossing book. I'm so lucky!
Up next! On my way to Cape Town (well, the Cape Peninsula, my new favourite place) for a week of work training. I've been wanting to read this forever.
Made this this morning but forgot to post. #BookReport - Finished 6 books this week. At the point where I‘m reading a bunch of quick books for the most part.
#CurrentlyReading - about 100 pages into Orquidea Divina, about 50% into Twelve dates and only about 10% into The Last Graduate
Since I have a bunch currently going, I only have one other book on my #WeeklyForecast
pickRecommend. Horowitz writes some of my favorite modern murder mysteries. A book within a book. #whodunnit #murdermystery #fiction
pickBear with me, I have a bunch of reviews. I‘m glad I gave this one a second chance. I‘ve been in the mood for cozy English Murder mysteries and this one popped up. I knew at the time I bailed it was totally me and I wasn‘t in the mood. This time I was.
I almost thought they weren‘t going to tell us the end of the mystery in the book but thankfully they did. I‘m curious to see how the other books in this series are based on the ending of this one
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