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Read an Extract from Moonflower Murders

Mon, July 06, 2020

Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz is a brilliantly intricate and original thriller from the bestselling author of Magpie Murders. If you like this extract, don’t forget to pre-order a signed copy of the book here!

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 Pünd 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.

Click here to visit Dead Good Books for an extract from Moonflower Murders