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2000s: A labyrinth of clues. A mystery novel hiding a deadly secret. A killer with a fiendish plot
2000s: A labyrinth of clues. A mystery novel hiding a deadly secret. A killer with a fiendish plot
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…
There’s three main settings in this novel and all are well described. Our main character has retired to Crete but she’s missing her London life. She heads back to London and then to Suffolk to the fictional MoonFlower Hotel to find out who murdered a Frank Parris.
Tawleigh is a place that is fictional but Woodbridge is very much a real setting and you can imagine the hotel being here. Nice and quiet – well apart from a murder mystery. When the novel goes back to the story in the story, we head back to the golden age of crime: a large house, a cast of assembled characters with secrets and a detective who is determined to find the killer.
Woodbridge
A nice market town with secrets it would seem…
Crete
Heraklion is close to where the retired publisher Susan now lives in a hotel she is trying to salvage. It sounds lovely and sunny but she yearns for her old life in London.
Brilliantly complex and a literary mystery feast of fun!
The BookTrail’s full bookreview of Moonflower Murders – Anthony Horowitz
Destination/location:Woodbridge, London, Crete Author/guide: Anthony Horowitz Departure Time: 2000s and 1950s
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