Fantastic. Since lockdown started I've been listening to Horowitz's books as audio books and second time round they've been even more fin that when I first read or listened to them. So, I was really excited to get this book early.

Happy to say its fabulous - love the way that AH has created a book within a book novel again and how its tied back so cleverly to the characters we first met in Magpie Murders. I thought we'd seen the end of Atticus Pund, but no, he's back again and the story so cleverly crafted in the Moonflower Murders book within a book. Although Andreas only has small walk on parts - he always turns up at the right time - perhaps he's the real hero?

I read this over two days, an was simply delighted by it - I'm hoping that there are more to come - fingers crossed that this is the second of a three book deal, as there must be more mileage in the Ryland/Conway/Pund partnership.

I think that Horowitz has prodcued some great stuff recently - the two Ryland/Pund books plus the Horowitz/Hawthorne books are just fantastic - I think he should forget Alex Rider and focus on these instead

Just waiting to see what comes next - Anthony, don't make us wait a year for the next one!!

This is the 2nd book in the Susan Ryeland series by author Anthony Horowitz.
This is the follow up to the successful 'Magpie Murders' featuring literary detective Atticus Pund and Susan Ryeland as the amateur sleuth.

Susan Ryeland is no longer publisher and is running a small hotel on a Greek island with her partner Andreas. Her life is now a little too quiet and she is missing her literary life in London when an English couple come to visit and tell her of a murder that took place on the day of their daughter, Cecily's wedding. Their daughter Cecily subsequently disappeared after reading one of Susan's published books 'Atticus Pund Takes The Case'. Susan is intrigued and agrees to return to London to investigate.

This series is so clever and the books incorporate a full length Atticus Pund novel within the whodunit. Brilliantly written with excellent characters and a good sprinkling of red herrings and clues. The novels have the feel of an Agatha Christie novel and are great fun to read.

I would like to thank both Net Galley and Random House for supplying a copy of this novel in exchange for an honest review.

#MoonflowerMurders #NetGalley
A must read. Highly recommended.
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.
I adored this book for two nights. I loved it so much. This is pacey.
Thanks to NetGalley and Random House UK Cornerstone for giving me an advance copy.

By golly this is a cracking read, a murder story within a murder story. Susan Ryeland – who Horowitz fans will remember from Magpie Murders – is a retired publisher and living in Crete with her partner. Life isn’t exactly what she wants so when an English couple need her help – their daughter Cecily is missing and there’s been a murder in their country hotel – Susan knows she has to return home. Couple this with the knowledge that Cecily disappeared shortly after reading a book by one of Susan’s former writers and you have the recipe for a pacy whodunit, paired perfectly with a shorter crime novel about which the whole drama centres. With a cast of characters akin to an Agatha Christie and honouring many of the great golden age of detective fiction themes, Anthony Horowitz has written another winner in my book. I couldn’t wait to get to the end to see if I had the right culprit (I hadn’t but the denoument is a lot of fun).