Marble Hall Murders

Plenty of puzzles, red herrings and juicy murders

Daily Express

A masterclass in mystery writing.

Ragnar Jonasson

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

Financial Times

Glorious fun

The Daily Telegraph

Fans will love this installment

Best Magazine

A treat

Sainsburys Magazine

Horowitz is at the top of his game here, linking past and present in a virtuoso finale worthy of Agatha Christie. Fans will clamor for the sequel

Publishers Weekly Starred Review

A deliciously witty, clever, and hefty mystery

Library Journal Starred Review

The novel-within-a-novel format works superbly

Town and Country

Horowitz's most extended and intricately plotted [whodunit] yet

Kirkus Reviews

Anthony Horowitz is one of the great masters of the contemporary page turner

Andrew Marr

Anthony Horowitz is one of my all-time favourite authors. Marble Hall Murders is a beautiful read and we are all in for a real treat

Ryan Tubridy

Horowitz offers readers another page-turner of a puzzle, once again cleverly told as a story within a story

Washington Post

A multilayered metafictional mystery filled with twists, anagrams, and clever clues . . . thoroughly entertaining

AudioFile

His most satisfying yet’

Air Mail

Dazzling . . . Readers looking for a cozy that gives them something to really chew on will enjoy this lengthy mystery, and fans of Susan Ryeland will find this a satisfying installment in the series

BookPage, Starred Review

Novels within novels are an Anthony Horowitz trademark . . . a gifted mimic, [Horowitz] switches effortlessly between Susan's cynical voice and a convincing Agatha Christie-style pastiche

The Times

If you've read Horowitz's Magpie Murders and Moonflower Murders - the basis for the PBS mystery series - you know how wonderful he is at creating fun, twisty mysteries with layered plots: books within books.

AARP

A smooth, rich mystery that will entertain on every one of its 580 pages. Settle in for a cleverly constructed plot.

NY Journal of Books

Diabolically clever . . . . Horowitz’s multilevel romp . . . serves up an elegant plot while lampooning writers, publishers, murderers, rich people and golden-age mystery stories. It’s a cliché to describe prolific authors as being at the top of their game (and often seems to suggest the opposite), but it’s true here. Marble Hall Murders is as cunning a mystery as you’ll read all year.

New York Times

The prolific and multi-talented Anthony Horowitz is back with a very readable third novel featuring the full-time professional editor and part-time amateur sleuth Susan Ryeland and the legendary fictional detective Atticus Pünd . . . A talented fellow, our Anthony Horowitz. A name for fans of intelligent mystery fiction on page or screen to be on the lookout for. His work doesn’t disappoint’

American Spectator

If traditional golden age style mystery is your jam, these books are absolute perfection . . . with this strong installment, Horowitz proves once again that these smart, gorgeously written and compelling books remain some of the very best crime novels being written

Deadly Pleasures Magazine

Marble Hall Murders is metafiction with a vengeance. It is a contemporary murder mystery in the style of the best of Agatha Christie. In the hands of a writer with the sly genius of Anthony Horowitz — who is capable of winking at us even as he scares us mightily — Marble Hall Murders is, quite simply, as good as it gets

Anniston Star

Marble Hall Murders is a masterpiece and more than a worthy successor to the prior installments of the series. The complex construction of Horowitz’s mysteries is so brilliant that it feels like he is channeling Agatha Christie herself, and this latest entry is a perfect example of this. This mystery within a mystery is like a fictional Russian doll that will keep readers engaged and guessing on multiple levels from start to finish

Bookreporter.com

Thrilling . . . The premise is intriguing, and the plot more than delivers, with twists, turns and literary-based clues throughout

Woman's Weekly

Horowitz pushes back the boundaries of ‘plot structure’ – he creates a book within a book where the narrative and the characters of each one are cleverly mirrored. He’s a genius

Terry Deary

An absolutely wonderful writer

Richard Osman

My favourite literary hero at the moment is Anthony Horowitz

Shari Lapena

One of the most creative writers in the country today

Jeremy Vine