From New
York Times–bestselling author Anthony Horowitz comes a new novel featuring ex-editor
hero Susan Ryeland, set to solve another murder mystery
Farlingaye Hall is a beautiful hotel in Suffolk on the
east coast of England. Unfortunately, it is also the site of the brutal murder
of Frank Parris, a retired advertising executive. Stefan Codrescu, a
Romanian maintenance man, is arrested after police discover blood spatter on
his clothes and bed linen. He is found guilty and sentenced to eight years in
prison. It appears to be an open-and-shut case, but there is more to it than
meets the eye.
Alan Conway, the late author of the fictional Magpie
Murders, knew Frank Parris and once visited Farlingaye Hall. Also,
the third book in Conway’s detective series, Atticus Pund Takes the Cake, was based on the hotel.
Cecily Treherne, the daughter of Farlingaye Hall’s owner, has read the book and
believes the proof of Stefan’s innocence can be found in its pages.
But now . . . Cecily Treherne has disappeared. So Conway’s
former editor, Susan Ryeland, leaves her own hotel in Crete and travels to
Suffolk to investigate the murder and Treherne’s disappearance.
Masterfully intriguing, brilliantly clever and
relentlessly suspenseful, Moonflower Murders is a deviously dark take on
vintage English crime fiction in which the reader becomes the detective.
