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A review by jhbandcats
Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz
5.0
Moonflower Murders is so clever! I love a good mystery where the threads are all tied up so neatly at the end. It’s two years later and Susan, the editor heroine from Magpie Murders, is living in Crete running a hotel with her partner. But she’s antsy and is asked to look into a disappearance back in England, so she goes. The connection: the murder victim from Magpie Murders, a mystery author and former client of the editor, has left clues to the disappearance in a book he wrote eight years earlier.
Sounds like a complicated timeline but it makes sense in the book. The best part about this and the prior novel is that there’s a book within the book. Each of these two novels includes a complete mystery by the fictitious author murdered in the first book.
I’m sure I’ve muddied things instead of clarifying them. All you really need to know is that if you like books, you like mysteries, and you like clever stories, these two books - Magpie Murders and Moonflower Murders - need to be on your list!
Sounds like a complicated timeline but it makes sense in the book. The best part about this and the prior novel is that there’s a book within the book. Each of these two novels includes a complete mystery by the fictitious author murdered in the first book.
I’m sure I’ve muddied things instead of clarifying them. All you really need to know is that if you like books, you like mysteries, and you like clever stories, these two books - Magpie Murders and Moonflower Murders - need to be on your list!