Susan has left publishing and is living in Crete with her long-time boyfriend, Andreas. But her idyll is disturbed by the shadow of a murder committed at a British country hotel eight years ago. Alan Conway visited the hotel and wrote a novel based on what happened there. Cecily MacNeil, the young woman who helps run the hotel, read the book and believed the wrong man had been arrested. Now she has disappeared. Can Susan uncover the secret hidden in the book and find Cecily before it is too late?

Im Mittelpunkt der britischen Krimiserie „Magpie Murders – Die Morde von Pye Hall“ steht eine Frau, die ihre Leidenschaft für Krimis plötzlich in die Tat umsetzen muss: Die Lektorin Susan Ryeland (Lesley Manville) betreut den erfolgreichen Krimiautor Alan Conway (Conleth Hill) und seine Werke mit dem berühmten Detektiv Atticus Pünd (Tim McMullan), der seine Fälle so charmant wie Hercule Poirot zu lösen pflegt. Doch in seinem neuesten Fall scheint einiges nicht zu stimmen – und dann verschwindet neben dem letzten Kapitel des Manuskripts auch noch der Buchautor selbst. Susan Ryeland nimmt die Sache selbst in die Hand und ermittelt als Detektivin das Verschwinden des Buchautors.

In the early hours of the morning on the campus of an American college, Martha, much to her husband George’s displeasure, has invited the new professor Nick and his wife Honey to their home for some after-party drinks. As the alcohol flows and dawn approaches, the young couple are drawn into George and Martha’s toxic games until the evening reaches its climax in a moment of devastating truth-telling.

London is rocked by terrorist attacks as armed police shoot dead an innocent man on his way to work.