In the book《 Magpie Murders》by Anthony Horowitz the novel talks about a event happens in 20th century of England, a small town in the countryside have occur a murder case which is the servant of a castle has died during working. The police in the town all think it was a natural death, but many residents believe it was her son who killed him because they had a big fight on the street before work and even made her son say, ‘I really hope you die.’
“This book changed my life. You may have read that before. I’m embarrassed to say that is plashed it on the cover of the first novel I ever commissioned…”(p.12)
This quote, from the perspective of editor Susan, points out the impact of literary works on people’s lives, laying the foundation for the subsequent real-life murder cases triggered by the manuscript and establishing the core structure of the novel’s “interweaving of reality and fiction”.