Moonflower Murders

By Anthony Horowitz,

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Susan Ryeland, former publisher (and hero with Atticus Pund in The Magpie Murders), runs a small hotel with her boyfriend in Greece. When a couple visit and describe a murder in their daughter’s wedding hotel, and on the same day—Ryeland’s intrigued. 

Susans’s former client and the writer/creator of the Atticus Pund series knew the victim and writes a book about the murder (Atticus Pund Takes the Cake). It convinced the couple’s daughter that the man convicted is innocent. Now she’s missing. Ryeland leaves Greece to investigate. 

Horowitz is a mastermind of mystery, famously so. And this book is as…

Moonflower Murders shows what can be done at the boundary between genre and literary fiction. This is a writer at the top of his form with twisty plotting, mellifluous prose, and the sheer joy of storytelling. Realistic? No. But that’s not the point. This is an insane murder mystery within a murder mystery. A sequel to Magpie Murders, it features retired publisher Susan Ryeland, who now runs a small hotel on a Greek island. But running a small hotel on a Greek island isn’t for everyone, and Susan is beginning to miss her old life in London.

She is…

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