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About the author
Anthony Horowitz is one of the UK’s most prolific and successful writers, unique in being active in both adult and YA fiction, TV, theater, and journalism. Several of his previous novels were instant New York Times bestsellers. His bestselling Alex Rider series for young adults has sold more than nineteen million copies worldwide and has become a hugely successful show on Amazon Prime Video. His breakthrough Magpie Murders mystery series has been adapted into miniseries for PBS. He lives in London and was recently awarded the CBE for services to literature.
Summary
New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz has crafted a brilliantly
complex literary thriller featuring his famous detective Atticus Pund and Susan
Ryeland, hero of the worldwide bestseller Magpie Murders
Retired publisher Susan
Ryeland is living the good life, running a small hotel on a Greek island with
her boyfriend, Andreas. It should be everything she’s always wanted. But 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.
Then the Trehearnes come to
stay, and the strange and mysterious story they tell—about a murder that took
place the day their daughter Cecily got married at Farlingaye Hall, a
picturesque inn on the Suffolk coast—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. In fact, the third book of Conway’s detective series, Atticus
Pund Takes the Cake, was based on that very crime.
Cecily, who had read
Conway’s mystery, believed the book proved that the man convicted of Parris’s
murder was innocent. When the Trehearnes reveal that Cecily is now missing,
Susan knows that she must return to England to find out what really happened.
Brilliantly clever,
relentlessly suspenseful and 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.
