The Recurring Cast
Reading order · 3 books · 2016 to 2025 · Set in Suffolk

Susan Ryeland Books in Order

The Susan Ryeland books follow a book editor who solves real murders hidden inside the manuscripts of a golden-age-style detective, Atticus Pünd. Each book contains a complete Atticus Pünd novel within it.

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Series facts

Books
3
Published
2016 to 2025
First book
Magpie Murders
Latest
Marble Hall Murders (2025)
Setting
Set in Suffolk

The reading order

Every Susan Ryeland book in publication order. Choose a title for its cast and summary.

3 books · Set in Suffolk
  1. 1Magpie Murders2016With Susan RyelandSusan Ryeland, a book editor, receives the latest manuscript from her bestselling author, Alan Conway, whose detective Atticus Pünd is investigating a death in a 1950s English village.Buy on Amazon
  2. 2Moonflower Murders2020With Susan RyelandSusan Ryeland, now running a hotel in Crete, is asked by an English couple to find their missing daughter, who vanished after reading one of Alan Conway’s Atticus Pünd novels.Buy on Amazon
  3. 3Marble Hall Murders2025With Susan RyelandSusan Ryeland, back in London, is editing a new Atticus Pünd novel by a young writer, and begins to suspect that the story hides the truth about a real death.Buy on Amazon

Do you need to read them in order?

Read Magpie Murders, Moonflower Murders, then Marble Hall Murders.

Who appears in which book

The series’ main characters, book by book. Lead means the book is told around them; minor covers cameos.

Who appears in each Susan Ryeland book
BookSusan RyelandAtticus PündAndreas Patakis
1 Magpie MurdersLLeadMMajorMMajor
2 Moonflower MurdersLLeadMMajorMMajor
3 Marble Hall MurdersLLeadMMajor·Minor

Characters in the Susan Ryeland books

4 characters from Anthony Horowitz’s chart, with the number of Susan Ryeland books each appears in.

CharacterBooksFirst in this series
Susan RyelandBook editor turned amateur detective3Magpie Murders 2016
Atticus PündDetective in the novels within the novels3Magpie Murders 2016
Andreas PatakisSusan’s partner3Magpie Murders 2016
Alan ConwayBestselling author of the Atticus Pünd novels1Magpie Murders 2016