Jamie Mallory

This was the first book where I annotated my feelings as I read with colorful tabs, and set aside my disgust to write thoughts and comments in the margins. In the end I have a stained glass window of tabs, and I feel like I had a conversation with the book. I have a deeper understanding of the relationship between Dex and Mosscap and a deeper understanding of my own internal fights and struggles to find my “purpose”. There were many passages, or whole damn pages, that seemed to speak to me personally. I am happy to see that there is a second book to this, and I have an incredible urge to go to the bookstore to continue the feelings I currently have.

I started reading this when I had finished my other beach book called “Murder in the Family.” While walking along the beach, the hotel had been kind enough to set up a table that people can place and swap books from those that had been left. I picked up “Magpie Murders” purely due to the cover, title, and the fact that it seemed to be another murder mystery.

I knew nothing about this book going into it and looking back at the last month, I am happy that I had not read reviews before snapping it up, plopping down into my beach chair and starting in.

I was thrown for a loop when the murder mystery, had its own Murder Mystery inside of it. Like a Murder Mystery Turducken. I very much enjoyed the book, and I was guessing all throughout on who the killer(s) were. I will most likely look into other books by Horowitz, but I also enjoy the idea what this book spontaneously came into my life through the hotel table on the beach.