Magpie Murders

Susan Ryeland is a successful book editor – but her career is threatened when the new mystery novel by her number one author turns up with its final chapter missing.

Susan arrives in Suffolk, searching for the missing chapter and discovers that Alan Conway used everyone he knew as characters in his book. And it looks like one of them may have murdered him.

Susan’s personal life unravels when her boyfriend tells her that he’s going home to Crete and he wants her to come. Still investigating Alan’s death, Susan tries to close in on the killer.

As Alan Conway is buried, characters from the novel cross over with people from real life. Susan gets help from an unexpected source.

A tragedy at the lake at Pye Hall reveals some dark secrets from the past.

Susan finds the missing chapter and it tells her the identity of the killer.