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 ____________ 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... ____________ '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 ____________ 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 Review: I absolutely love this series of fiendishly clever literary mysteries[...] and I wolfed this new one down * Good Housekeeping * MOONFLOWER MURDERS showcases Horowitz's full battalion of strengths: the whiplash plotting, the leather-smooth prose, the bold energy and, above all, the bright spark of joy that ignites the best fiction. Sophisticated, literate novels aren't supposed to be so much fun * A. J. Finn * It is amongst the most ambitious formats I've ever read, as, essentially, Horowitz writes not one but two fully-fledged, distinct stories. There is the 300-plus page present-day Susan Ryeland story mystery, and the 200-plus page Golden Age style Alan Conway murder mystery, and both of them are brilliantly executed as exemplars in their respective genres and fields * NB Magazine * A clever, engaging book that keeps you hooked until the end * Socialist Worker * A devilishly clever, multi-layered total joy of a novel * Miranda Dickenson * The prolific novelist's latest work is a mind-bending murder mystery to tie readers in knots * BBC News Online * Magnificent * Bestsellers Podcast * It's a complex plot, a novel within a novel, where the reader gets to grapple with the whodunnit both in the main narrative and through an entirely separate detective story [...] They are both gripping reads, a clever conceit by Horowitz, who pulls off the tricky structure beautifully. * Irish Times * Moonflower Murders, is a superbly intricate608-page murder mystery [...] An intellectual challenge with a smile attached ispretty much the Horowitz oeuvre in a nutshell. The gleeful boy seems to shine through even the darkest tale * Sunday Times Ireland * A genius mystery within a mystery which is perfect for any book lovers and murder mystery fans * Hello! Magazine * Author Biography: Bestselling author Anthony Horowitz has written two highly acclaimed Sherlock Holmes novels, The House of Silk and Moriarty; three James Bond novels, Trigger Mortis, Forever and a Day and With a Mind to Kill; the acclaimed bestselling mystery novels Magpie Murders, Moonflower Murders and Marble Hall Murders; and the Detective Hawthorne novels, The Word is Murder, The Sentence is Death, A Line To Kill, The Twist of a Knife and Close to Death. He is also the author of the teen spy Alex Rider series, and responsible for creating and writing some of the UK's most loved and successful TV series, including Midsomer Murders and Foyle's War. In January 2022 he was awarded a CBE for his services to literature.