Moonflower Murders

A Novel

By: Anthony Horowitz

Narrated by: Lesley Manville, Allan Corduner

Narrated by Lesley Manville

New York Times Bestseller • Soon to be a MASTERPIECE mystery series on PBS!

Bestselling author Anthony Horowitz brings back his famous literary detective Atticus Pund and Susan Ryeland, hero of Magpie Murders, in an inventive, labyrinthine story that is “catnip for classic mystery lovers” (Time magazine).

Retired publisher Susan Ryeland is living the good life. She is running a small hotel on a Greek island with her long-term boyfriend Andreas. It should be everything she's always wanted. But is it? She's exhausted with the responsibilities of making everything work on an island where nothing ever does, and truth be told she's beginning to miss London.

And then the Trehearnes come to stay. The strange and mysterious story they tell, about an unfortunate murder that took place on the same day and in the same hotel in which their daughter was married—a picturesque inn on the Suffolk coast named Farlingaye Hall—fascinates Susan and piques her editor’s instincts.

One of her former writers, the late Alan Conway, author of the fictional Magpie Murders, knew the murder victim—an advertising executive named Frank Parris—and once visited Farlingaye Hall. Conway based the third book in his detective series, Atticus Pund Takes the Cake, on that very crime.

The Trehearne’s, daughter, Cecily, read Conway’s mystery and believed the book proves that the man convicted of Parris’s murder—a Romanian immigrant who was the hotel’s handyman—is innocent. When the Trehearnes reveal that Cecily is now missing, Susan knows that she must return to England and find out what really happened.

Brilliantly clever, relentlessly suspenseful, full of twists that will keep readers guessing with each revelation and clue, Moonflower Murders is a deviously dark take on vintage English crime fiction from one of its greatest masterminds.

Horowitz is excellent

Can’t wait for his next. Magpie Murders took a drawing room detective story and turned it inside out to reveal a second thriller. Moonflower Murders takes a reverse course: 2 murders solved with the help of a novel written shortly after one of the crimes and 8 years before the second. Clues are discovered through a close read of that novel, presented here as a second audiobook complete with blurbs and a second reader. Clever and thoroughly enjoyable.

Love Anthony Horowitz

He never disappoints. All the twists and turns and secret meanings and references. Can't wait for the next one!!!

This is a an exceptionally brilliant novel.

Anthony Horowitz is either severely schizophrenic or one of the best modern writers of the day. This one is fantastic.
We pick up about a year after Magpie Murders. While I enjoyed that quite a bit, this one is substantially better. Susan is drawn with more depth and brains while Pünd is fleshed out comparable to Hercule Poirot.
The two stories are brilliantly tied in and the misdirection is masterful. Everything is there for the reader. One only must pay attention to the details.
The book is long but rather than interweave both narratives there is a break where the Pünd story is presented in full. It's much easier to keep both stories separate and to then track details back and forth.
If you're a fan of detective fiction and love a masterful tale, you can't do better than Moonflower Murders.

A great read.

A tour de force. very intricate plot. Pay close attention You'll need a scorecard to keep track of the fictional suspects relationship to their counterparts in the "real world of the book.

Anthony Horowitz is a master of his craft.

I loved every second of this novel. I read the reviews and almost didn't buy it, but I loved Magpie Murders and many of his other books so I was unable to help myself and I was glad I did. I was on the edge of my seat throughout the whole thing. I'm not sure there will be another novel in the series, but if there is, I will be buying it immediately.