Book of secrets

Lesley Manville investigates a crime writer's death in a Agatha Christie-style whodunnit

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Magpie Murders 
Sat, 9.15pm, BBC1 (box set, iPlayer)

Written by Foyle’s War creator Anthony Horowitz, Magpie Murders is an ingenious whodunnit about the links between the death of a bestselling crime writer and the plot of his latest murder-mystery.

In the six-part series, previously shown on BritBox in 2022, book editor Susan Ryeland (Lesley Manville) is excited to receive the manuscript of Alan Conway’s new novel Magpie Murders, in which his famous fictional detective Atticus Pünd investigates suspected foul play in a sleepy English village.