Moonflower Murders
*The follow-on from Magpie Murders, soon to be a major BBC series starring Lesley Manville*
'The Lord of television mystery' LA Times
'Easily the greatest of our crime writers' Sunday Times
'Absolutely loved it. So clever, just masterful stuff.' Richard Osman
'Fiendishly clever and hugely entertaining. A masterpiece.' Lucy Foley
‘Anthony Horowitz is an absolutely exceptional writer’ Daniel Mays
'You have to hand it to Horowitz: the guy never fails to deliver a total page-turner. We LOVED it.' Richard & Judy
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Retired publisher Susan Ryeland is running a small hotel on a Greek island with her long-term boyfriend. But life isn't as idyllic as it should be: exhausted by the responsibility of making everything work on an island where nothing ever does, Susan is beginning to miss her literary life in London - even though her publishing career once entangled her in a lethal literary murder plot.
So when an English couple come to visit with tales of a murder that took place in a hotel the same day their daughter Cecily was married there, Susan can't help but find herself fascinated.
And when they tell her that Cecily has gone missing a few short hours after reading Atticus Pund Takes The Case, a crime novel Susan edited some years previously, Susan knows she must return to London to find out what has happened.
The clues to the murder and to Cecily's disappearance must lie within the pages of this novel.
But to save Cecily, Susan must place her own life in mortal danger...
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'I'm blown away. He's managed to come up with something even more amazing than the last one!' Hideo Kojima
'Horowitz is a master of the cunning plot device, and brings zest and originality to the traditional murder mystery novel.' Sophie Hannah
'A wonderfully enjoyable read' Ragnar Jonasson
'So clever, a story within a story within a story. A triumph.' Kate Mosse
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Readers can't get enough of Magpie Murders . . .
***** 'Six hundred and eight pages? Really? Well they flew past.'
***** ' Highly recommended to all crime fiction and thriller readers.'
***** 'Even better than the first one - just very much my kind of mystery.'
***** 'One of my top 10 books of the year.'
***** 'This is one of the smartest and most entertaining whodunnits I’ve ever read.'
Sunday Times bestseller, September 2024
Anthony Horowitz is responsible for creating and writing some of the UK’s most loved and successful TV series, including Midsomer Murders and Foyle’s War. He is the author of the teen spy series, Alex Rider, which has sold more than twenty million copies worldwide.
He has been widely praised for his murder mysteries which began with two highly acclaimed Sherlock Holmes novels and continued with the bestselling Hawthorne series in which he appears as the former detective’s hapless sidekick. In January 2022 he was awarded a CBE for his services to literature.
His novel, Magpie Murders, was made into a BBC drama starring Lesley Manville as editor Susan Ryeland. The sequel, Moonflower Murders, also starring Lesley Manville, was a BBC drama in 2024. Marble Hall Murders continues the story…