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Magpie Lane

By: Lucy Atkins
Narrated by: Susie Riddell
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When the eight-year-old daughter of an Oxford College Master vanishes in the middle of the night, police turn to the Scottish nanny, Dee, for answers.

As Dee looks back over her time in the Master's Lodging - an eerie and ancient house - a picture of a high achieving but dysfunctional family emerges: Nick, the fiercely intelligent and powerful father; his beautiful Danish wife Mariah, pregnant with their child; and the lost little girl, Felicity, almost mute, seeing ghosts, grieving her dead mother.

But is Dee telling the whole story? Is her growing friendship with the eccentric house historian, Linklater, any cause for concern? And most of all, why was Felicity silent?

Roaming Oxford's secret passages and hidden graveyards, Magpie Lane explores the true meaning of family - and what it is to be denied one.

©2020 Lucy Atkins (P)2020 Quercus Editions Limited Detective Mystery Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense Women Sleuths Women's Fiction Fiction Highlander

Critic Reviews

"Enthralling...creepy and compelling." (The Times)

"Deliciously dark." (Alexandra Shulman)

"A gorgeously satisfying triumph." (Lucy Mangan)
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This is my favourite book so far and I’d never heard of Lucy Atkins. She is a terrific mystery writer the characters so warm but angular. The only bit I hate is the last 5 minutes. I am blissfully lost in this story and characters.

Wonder marvellous wonderful

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Loved this book. It was intriguing and so well written. Loved travelling through the streets of Oxford

Fascinating

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The story grew on me but although I guessed the finale, I found it unbelievably simplistic, with no real conclusion.

Disturbing story with an inconclusive ending.

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