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kcrowe2613 's review for:
Moonflower Murders
by Anthony Horowitz
Moonflower Murders is the second in a series by Anthony Horowitz that started with Magpie Murders, which came out in 2016. I read Magpie Murders and remember enjoying it but couldn’t remember much of the plot, which didn’t matter very much.
Moonflower Murders is really very clever (I’m not going to say “ingenious” because that’s what people always say in reviews of murder mysteries, but it really is.)
The “book within a book” is a clever way of freshening up a standard format and I loved the little details like the copyright page for the book etc all being included. I did find it a bit difficult to get into the Atticus Pund mini novel at the start and felt a bit like I’d been wrenched out of Moonflower Murders, which I had been enjoying, but I got into it relatively quickly and enjoyed the fact that I was being given the chance to review the same material as the “detective”.
I read a lot of Agatha Christie and usually find other crime books a bit disappointing in comparison, but this really holds its own and is a must read for any Christie fans.
My only slight negative is that it is quite long and I did wonder if some of it could have been trimmed a bit.
Many thanks for my free copy in return for my honest review.
Moonflower Murders is really very clever (I’m not going to say “ingenious” because that’s what people always say in reviews of murder mysteries, but it really is.)
The “book within a book” is a clever way of freshening up a standard format and I loved the little details like the copyright page for the book etc all being included. I did find it a bit difficult to get into the Atticus Pund mini novel at the start and felt a bit like I’d been wrenched out of Moonflower Murders, which I had been enjoying, but I got into it relatively quickly and enjoyed the fact that I was being given the chance to review the same material as the “detective”.
I read a lot of Agatha Christie and usually find other crime books a bit disappointing in comparison, but this really holds its own and is a must read for any Christie fans.
My only slight negative is that it is quite long and I did wonder if some of it could have been trimmed a bit.
Many thanks for my free copy in return for my honest review.