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The mysteries within the mysteries
Case files
Each adaptation combines Susan’s contemporary investigation with a manuscript case solved by Atticus Pünd. Reveals stay closed until requested.
Magpie Murders
A missing final chapter and the death of Alan Conway force Susan to read his last Atticus Pünd mystery as evidence.
- Susan Ryeland searches for Conway’s missing chapter.
- Atticus Pünd investigates deaths in Saxby-on-Avon.
- Alan Conway has modelled suspects on people in his life.
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Moonflower Murders
A disappearance at Branlow Hall may be solved by a clue hidden inside Alan Conway’s Atticus Pünd Takes the Case.
- Susan returns from Crete to investigate Cecily MacNeil’s disappearance.
- Frank Parris’s earlier murder is reopened.
- Pünd investigates the fictional Moonflower Hotel case.
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Cecily believes the novel proves the wrong man was imprisoned. Susan must solve a disappearance, a past murder and Conway’s fictional case together.
Marble Hall Murders
Susan edits a continuation of the Pünd series and is drawn into the secrets of author Eliot Crace’s family.
- Eliot is the grandson of celebrated children’s author Miriam Crace.
- The new manuscript is Pünd’s Last Case.
- Corfu supplies the visual world of Pünd’s final investigation.
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Read or listen to the Susan Ryeland books
Magpie Murders (2016)
Anthony Horowitz’s novel behind the first television mystery.
Waterstones · print Audible · audiobookMoonflower Murders (2020)
Anthony Horowitz’s novel behind the second television mystery.
Waterstones · print Audible · audiobookMarble Hall Murders (2025)
Anthony Horowitz’s novel behind the third television mystery.
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