The structure of this book was so fun and clever! I loved it! The wrap-up didn't have as much impact as I would have hoped given the run up to the conclusion but Magpie Murders did keep me guessing until the very end, on all fronts, and the eventually conclusions did make sense in the general context of a contrived murder mystery setup, so a job well done to the author!

(I didn't realise until reading the blurb for this — after I'd finished the book, of course — that Anthony Horowitz created Midsomer Murders! He came into my high school once to do a school assembly — including a reading and takedown of an opening paragraph of one of Dan Brown's novels — and it was one of the most entertaining things!)