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.