harriehqMar 16

I don't usually write reviews on Goodreads, but I loathed "Magpie Murders" by Anthony Horowitz so much that it was called for.

"Ok, I'm done with Anthony Horowitz. "Moriarty" was underwhelming, and "Magpie Murders"was straight up infuriating.
For such a "prolific" author, the completely erroneous vocabulary choices are inexcusable. How, pray tell, was Joy's letter on the noticeboard in any way an admission of "infidelity"?
And the "golden age" detective / author name-dropping is bad enough without being repeated LITERALLY ad nauseum and then ONE MORE TIME just to make sure we GET IT and appreciate how clever the author is and how stupid he thinks his readers are. I feel like his (under-developed) female sleuth: clobbered over the head and broken ribs - not from being kicked - but the constant "did you catch that reference?" elbowing."


#anthony-horowitz #magpie-murders #book-review
Book NotificationDec 13

Vince is back with our Weekly Picks in time for your weekend reading!

Featuring:

📖 God of Malice by #RinaKent
( #LegacyofGods)
📖 The Word Is Murder by #AnthonyHorowitz
( #HawthorneandHorowitzMystery)
📖 The Bookshop Below by #GeorgiaSummers

Read all of Vince’s picks online at our site. 📚

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Book Notification Weekly Picks #27 - Book Notification

Book Notification Weekly Picks #27 in Publication and Chronological Order. Mark books read, get notified on new books. Printable book lists.

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Michael Knox-SmithSep 27
Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue Eps 1: Lost? https://mikesfilmtalk.com/2025/03/08/nine-bodies-in-a-mexican-morgue-eps-1-lost/ #AdamLong, #AngelLopezSilva, #AnthonyHorowitz, #ChrisRoe, #DavidAjala, #EricMcCormack, #JanLe, #LydiaWilson, #NineBodiesInAMexicanMorgue, #PeterGadiot, #SebastianCapitanViveros, #SiobhanMcSweeney
Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue Eps 1: Lost?

Episode 1 of Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue feels a little like Lost. Albeit, a very scaled down version of the hit mystery/thriller. This

Mikes Film Talk
Club Archivo 007 🍸Sep 8, 2025
Hace un 10 años se publicó "Trigger Mortis" de Anthony Horowitz. Fue el 8 de septiembre de 2015. La historia está ambientada en 1957, justo después de los eventos de "Goldfinger", y se sitúa en el contexto de la Carrera Espacial. #EfemeridesBond #jamesbond #triggermortis #anthonyhorowitz
screw_dogAug 15, 2025

"She had been sitting in the kitchen ever since, watching the sun rise over her garden and, beyond it, the ruins of Saxby Castle, a thirteenth-century structure which gave pleasure to the many hundreds of amateur historians who visited it but which cut out the sunlight every afternoon, casting a long shadow over the house" - Magpie Murders (ch 3), Anthony Horowitz

I hope the murder mystery makes a little more sense than the way the sun moves

#MagpieMurders #AnthonyHorowitz

Club Archivo 007 🍸Apr 5, 2025
También hace 70 años del nacimiento de nació Anthony Horowitz. Fue el 5 de abril de 1955. Ha escrito tres novelas de James Bond, todas ellas utilizando material inédito de Ian Fleming. #EfemeridesBond #jamesbond #anthonyhorowitz #literatura
B.W. ConwayMar 13, 2025

My middle schooler had a great time listening to this with me during our car rides!

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#books #bookstore #booklovers #mystery #humor #PointBlank #AnthonyHorowitz #AmWriting #WritersLife #WritingCommunity #BookLovers #Bookstagram #IndieAuthor #BookRecommendations

Point Blank

Alex Rider is not an average 14-year-old at an ordinary West London school. There’s something Alex can’t tell any of his classmates: he has recently been recruited and trained as a special agent by MI6, the British secret service. When two mysterious deaths are linked to an ultra-private school where the rich and powerful send their uncontrollable, rebellious sons, MI6 sends Alex to uncover what is really going on...

Tuomo SuominenMar 11, 2025
#MustSeeTV Nine Bodies In a Mexican Morgue created by one of my all time favorite authors/screenwriters #AnthonyHorowitz
https://mastodon.social/@mikesfilmtalk/114130527739384591
Michael Knox-SmithMar 9, 2025
Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue Eps 1: Lost? https://mikesfilmtalk.com/2025/03/08/nine-bodies-in-a-mexican-morgue-eps-1-lost/ #AdamLong, #AngelLopezSilva, #AnthonyHorowitz, #ChrisRoe, #DavidAjala, #EricMcCormack, #JanLe, #LydiaWilson, #NineBodiesInAMexicanMorgue, #PeterGadiot, #SebastianCapitanViveros, #SiobhanMcSweeney
Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue Eps 1: Lost?

Episode 1 of Nine Bodies in a Mexican Morgue feels a little like Lost. Albeit, a very scaled down version of the hit mystery/thriller. This

Mikes Film Talk
George LittleFeb 21, 2025

Caught up with the most recent novel in the Hawthorne and Horowitz Mysteries, Close to Death. With Horowitz (fictionally) tasked with writing about a previous case by Hawthorne, he realizes there’s so much more mystery to the man, Daniel Hawthorne. #BookSky #AnthonyHorowitz

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