I am also not a big fan of book within a book stories. I am not a fan of cozy and old-fashioned mystery novels. Unfortunately, like in “Magpie Murders” I was not so happy with the Atticus Pünd novel. After making herself accustomed with the people there she rereads Conway’s book. That’s the start of a cleverly plotted story. She is asked to help them find the hint in the book because nobody else seems to see it. Susan edited all of Conway’s books and she knows them in and out. The hint was in a book written by Alan Conway who was the only author of the small publishing house Susan worked for. Their daughter disappeared after finding a hint to a murder that happened at their own hotel in England. Then suddenly the answer to all her problems comes to her when a wealthy couple shows up in their hotel offering Susan a job. Susan begins to think that this all was a mistake and she misses working with books and she even misses London. Susan and Andreas don’t have much time for each other and are drifting apart. But the work never stops at a hotel and the bills keep coming in. She lives in Crete now with her partner Andreas and is running a small hotel. But she is not an editor anymore after what happened in the last book. This is the second book featuring book editor Susan Ryeland after “Magpie Murders”. The plot is twisted and, as always with Horowitz, brilliantly written. It is a homage to old-fashioned crime novels like the ones from Agatha Christie. This is another cleverly crafted classic whodunit mystery thriller from Anthony Horowitz.
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