Nooooooo!! Mark Edwards, thank you for writing 2 more short stories to round out the incredible story of The Magpies but I am sad that it is over now. These are my own honest opinions without any outside influences. I received a complimentary copy of this novel from Amazon Publishing through my membership of NetGalley. This is the ending that Mark’s fans have all been waiting for and I’m sure they will enjoy it. Mark Edwards is a fantastic storyteller and his characters are relatable and true to life.
All is not as it seems to be at first, and the novella is action packed and absorbing. What happens next is at the heart of this short novella, filled with twists and turns, thrills and spills and blind alleyways. Emma is driven to find out where Lucy is hiding and ensure that justice is done at last. Emma asks Jamie to try to persuade Kirsty to come on board, feeling that it is in her interest to cooperate. They don’t see each other, both getting on with their lives, but not quite truthful about how they feel after their divorce.
She is living with her daughter and building a new life after her marriage split with Jamie. She visits Kirsty who wants nothing to do with it. Emma hopes to track him down for her Podcast, keen to talk to any of the witnesses who knew Lucy well. Paul, left in a coma after Lucy’s duplicitous actions, is recovering but has chosen to leave the country, travelling and getting as far away from the place as he can. Instinctively he feels that he doesn’t want to help Emma, but with Lucy’s book release recounting her warped version of the events freely available, he eventually agrees to be involved with the Podcast so that at least Lucy’s version is challenged by the truthful account of what happened at Mount Pleasant. Jamie, now split from his wife, has been unable to return to Freemantle whilst Lucy is still running free. The police investigation and indeed the hunt for Lucy Newton has frustratingly virtually come to a standstill. Jamie is approached by True Life Crime Podcaster Emma who wants to tell the story from his point of view. This novella, to be published later on this month and entitled ‘Last of the Magpies’, completes the trilogy with a spectacular and thrilling finale.Ī year after evil and amoral Lucy Newton miraculously escapes through the woods, leaving Jamie and Kirsty Knight to pick up the pieces of their shattered lives. So much so that in 2018 he wrote short a story called ‘A Murder of Magpies’ continuing the story of Lucy Newton, the infamous serial killer. Talented writer of psychological thrillers Mark Edwards has always thought fondly of his first novel ‘The Magpies’, published in 2013, as the novel that launched his career as an author, enabling him to give up his day job and commit his time to building up his catalogue, popularity and fan base full time.
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