Marble Hall Murders by Anthony Horowitz

Sleuth and editor Susan Ryeland is back! In her third outing, her creator combines a jolly romp through a classic style mystery set in 1955 on the French Riviera with a contemporary whodunit that imperils our intrepid editor once again. Susan’s newest adventure showcases the dangerous oddity of a fictional author and reveals some seamier aspects of the publishing world as it grapples with the realities of an era dominated by huge multicultural entertainment corporations which control so much of the visual content that novelists and publishers must now contend with.

Susan Ryeland’s earlier Magpie Murders and Moonflower Murders have both been made into PBS miniseries, and he was adapting this novel for TV even as he finished writing it. writes for the theater and in journalism. As well as being a journalist and theatre writer, Horowitz is the creator of the very successful Alex Rider series for young adults—bestselling books and a show on Amazon Prime video,

The prolific and talented Anthony Horowitz has been awarded the CBE for service to literature. No surprise there. I’ve been following his work since the brilliant TV series Foyle’s War, which I watched twice and would watch again in a heartbeat—if there weren’t so many others stories on my list.