Mystery
author Alan Conway may be horrible to work with, but his bestselling series featuring
Detective Atticus Pünd is keeping Susan Ryeland’s publishing company in
business. Ryeland is Conway’s book editor and when she receives his latest
manuscript, about two murders in a quiet 1950s English village, we read it along
with her. We are just as frustrated as she is when the manuscript of the
novel-within-the-novel cuts off just as Pünd is set to unmask the killer. Conway’s
final chapter is missing.
To make
things worse, the author has apparently just committed suicide and no one seems
to know where the missing pages could be or how he intended the story to end.
Ryeland turns amateur sleuth to uncover his secrets, but the more she looks
into things, the more convinced she becomes that Conway himself was murdered.
Does his missing chapter expose something his killer needed to stay hidden?
Fans of
Agatha Christie and other classic murder mystery writers will love how this
novel plays with the genre. The modern-day plot intertwines with the
mid-Century detective story in a satisfying and clever way.
Reviewed by Lynn Heitkamp, Hoyt Library
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