Moonflower Murders : A Novel

From New York Timesbestselling author Anthony Horowitz comes a new novelfeaturing 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 fictionalMagpie Murders, knew Frank Parris and once visited Farlingaye Hall. Also, the third book in Conways detective series, Atticus Pund Takes the Cake, was based on the hotel. Cecily Treherne, the daughter of Farlingaye Halls owner, has read the book and believes the proof of Stefans innocence can be found in its pages.

But now . . . Cecily Treherne has disappeared. So Conways former editor, Susan Ryeland, leaves her own hotel in Crete and travels to Suffolk to investigate the murder and Trehernes disappearance.

Masterfully intriguing, brilliantly clever and relentlessly suspenseful,Moonflower Murdersis a deviously dark take on vintage English crime fiction in which the reader becomes the detective.