Susan goes to prison to meet Charles Clover, who gives her information but the interview quickly turns ugly. When Susan arrives home, her flat has been broken into and she is being further framed for Eliot's murder. Desperate, Susan turns to Blakeney for help-and he listens. She insists that the solutions to the real-life mystery will be hidden in the Atticus Pund novel.

Marble Hall Murders reunites audiences with the clever meta world first brought to life in Magpie Murders (2022) and Moonflower Murders (2024).

In Marble Hall Murders, editor Susan Ryeland is pulled into a new literary puzzle when she’s hired to work on a continuation novel in the Atticus Pünd series, penned by a troubled young writer. But when the assignment draws her into another very real murder case, Susan soon finds herself cast as a suspect. Meanwhile, within the world of the novel, the enigmatic detective Atticus Pünd travels to the Isle of Corfu where he becomes embroiled in the murder of Lady Margaret Chalfont.