The Setter's Last Grid
For forty years, Hester Vane set the Saturday crossword as "Magpie", and she never broke a rule. Three days after she dies in her armchair, her last puzzle is published, and her niece Kit, a hospital pharmacist who hasn't solved a clue since they fell out, finds four that Hester would never have written. The email that sent the puzzle says Hester was alive at 9.40 that night. The pills in her kitchen say otherwise.