Magpie Murders #02: Moonflower Murders

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NOW AVAILABLE TO PREORDER _____________________________________________ A bestselling crime novel. A labyrinth of clues. A killer with a lot to hide. Featuring his famous literary detective Atticus Pund and Susan Ryeland, hero of the worldwide bestseller Magpie Murders, a brilliantly intricate and original thriller Retired publisher Susan Ryeland is running a small hotel on a Greek island with her long-term boyfriend. 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 she' s beginning to miss her literary life in London. And then an English couple come to visit, and the story they tell about a murder that took place on the same day and in the same hotel in which their daughter, Cecily, was married is such a strange one that Susan is fascinated by it. 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 what' s happened. The clues to the murder and to Cecily' s disappearance must lie within the pages of this novel. But what Susan cannot know is that very soon her own life will be in mortal danger. . . _____________________________________________ ' There is no mystery writer whose puzzles make me think, ' Ooh, I can' t wait!' more than Anthony Horowitz. He is a master of the cunning plot device, and brings zest and originality to the traditional murder mystery novel. ' Sophie Hannah ' It is always a pleasure to read a new Anthony Horowitz mystery . . . a wonderfully enjoyable read' Ragnar Jonasson ' I came to Moonflower Murders already a fan of Anthony Horowitz' s unique and complex style of crime fiction from Magpie Murders. . . I found it very exciting to give her a voice, aware always not to go too fast because I couldn' t wait to turn the page!' Lesley Manville, narrator of the Moonflower Murders audiobook ' So clever, a story within a story within a story. A triumph. ' Kate Mosse ' A masterpiece by an author at the top of his genre. ' Adam Hamdy