This brilliant, multi-layered novel centers on a (fictional) whodunit entitled Magpie Murders, the latest in the wildly popular Atticus Pünd detective series by author Alan Conway. After flying through the thrilling manuscript, Susan Ryeland, Alan's editor, is dismayed to find the story incomplete. But before she can ask Alan about the missing pages, the author turns up dead of an apparent suicide. As Susan searches for the ending to Magpie Murders, she finds herself—along with the reader—playing the part of detective. Thrillingly inventive and fiendishly clever!