Marble Hall Murders

Susan Ryeland has had enough of murder.She’s edited two novels about the famous detective, Atticus Pünd, and both times she’s come close to being killed. Now she’s back in England and she’s been persuaded to work on a third.The new ‘continuation’ novel is by Eliot Crace, grandson of Miriam Crace who was the biggest selling children’s author in the world until her death exactly twenty years ago.Eliot believes that Miriam was deliberately poisoned. And when he tells Susan that he has hidden the identity of Miriam’s killer inside his book, Susan knows she’s in trouble once again.As Susan works on Pünd’s Last Case, a story set in an exotic villa in the South of France, she uncovers more and more parallels between the past and the present, the fictional and the real world – until suddenly she finds that she has become a target herself.

"Horowitz dazzles with the brilliant third entry in his Susan Ryeland series . . . . Horowitz is at the top of his game here, linking past and present in a virtuouso finale worthy of Agatha Christie. Fans will clamor for the sequel." — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"The dividing lines between reality and fiction (a Horowitz trademark) are deliciously intertwined." — Financial Times

"Another marvelous metafictional mystery." — Library Journal

"The novel-within-a-novel format works superbly once again as Ryeland rushes to figure out what's real and what's fictional before she becomes a victim herself." — Town and Country

"Horowitz's most extended and intricately plotted [whodunit] yet." — Kirkus Reviews