Moonflower Murders: A British Mystery

by Anthony Horowitz

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Featuring his famous literary detective Atticus Pund and Susan Ryeland, hero of the worldwide bestseller Magpie Murders, a brilliantly brain-teasing literary thriller by Anthony Horowitz. The follow-up to Magpie Murders.

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 her old life in London.

And then a couple - the Trehearnes - come to stay, and the 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, is such a strange and mysterious one that Susan finds herself increasingly fascinated by it. And when the Trehearnes tell her that their daughter is now missing, Susan knows that she must return to London and find out what really happened...
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'So clever, a story within a story within a story. A triumph, and a lovely way to spend a weekend reading.' Kate Mosse

• ISBN10: 0062955454
• ISBN13: 9780062955456
• Publish Date: 10 November 2020 (first published 20 August 2020)
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Publish Country: US
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Imprint: Collins
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 608
• Language: English

Reviews

[katjah]

Can be read as a stand-alone book. I thought the book was allright, but I didn't love it. I found the main character annoying, and I couldn't care about her struggles with her partner and living situation. Also, at times it was evident that the female main character was written by a man, for example because pretty much every other female character she encountered was immediately hostile towards her. I thought that was a shame and a bit off-putting. I actually kind of prefered the book-within-the-book, with its Agatha Christie-like narrative.