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welby 's review for:
Moonflower Murders
by Anthony Horowitz
I find myself intrigued by the plot device Horowitz has employed twice - the former editor of a deceased mystery writer solves a real life mystery that the dead writer had apparently left clues about in his novels. There's a finite number of these stories that can employ this story format (the dead novelist wrote a defined number of books, though I don't recall that number just now), and perhaps Horowitz has a roadmap for the remaining potential tales. The first two have been quite enjoyable, so I'd like to think so.
The pacing can be disorienting. We follow Susan Ryeland through much of the book before she (and we) finally get to the novel within the novel, which is produced as a whole for our consumption before returning to the - I hesitate to call it a frame story, or the main story - but Ryeland's story. But the disorientation *fits*. I definitely look forward to the next volume.
The pacing can be disorienting. We follow Susan Ryeland through much of the book before she (and we) finally get to the novel within the novel, which is produced as a whole for our consumption before returning to the - I hesitate to call it a frame story, or the main story - but Ryeland's story. But the disorientation *fits*. I definitely look forward to the next volume.