Book description
Pre-order the brand new Anthony Horowitz novel The Twist of a Knife, coming August 2022!
'Absolutely loved it. So clever, just masterful stuff.' Richard Osman
'A beautiful puzzle: fiendishly clever and hugely entertaining. A masterpiece.' Lucy Foley, author of The Hunting…
Why read it?
2 authors picked Moonflower Murders as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Susan Ryeland, former publisher (and hero with Atticus Pund in The Magpie Murders), runs a small hotel with her boyfriend in Greece. When a couple visit and describe a murder in their daughter’s wedding hotel, and on the same day—Ryeland’s intrigued.
Susans’s former client and the writer/creator of the Atticus Pund series knew the victim and writes a book about the murder (Atticus Pund Takes the Cake). It convinced the couple’s daughter that the man convicted is innocent. Now she’s missing. Ryeland leaves Greece to investigate.
Horowitz is a mastermind of mystery, famously so. And this book is as…
Moonflower Murders shows what can be done at the boundary between genre and literary fiction. This is a writer at the top of his form with twisty plotting, mellifluous prose, and the sheer joy of storytelling. Realistic? No. But that’s not the point. This is an insane murder mystery within a murder mystery. A sequel to Magpie Murders, it features retired publisher Susan Ryeland, who now runs a small hotel on a Greek island. But running a small hotel on a Greek island isn’t for everyone, and Susan is beginning to miss her old life in London.
She is…
From Adam's list on fair play murder mysteries that are actually fair.
If you love Moonflower Murders...
Murder on Book Row
She sells books, eats well, and has a very large brain. Criminals fear her.
Meet Beatrice Valentine, a larger-than-life bookshop owner with a penchant for three things in abundance—delicious Italian food, vino, and murder. For decades, she has sold used and rare books from her stylish-but-cluttered domain on New York…
Want books like Moonflower Murders?
Our community of 12,000+ authors has personally recommended 60 books like Moonflower Murders.
Share your top 3 reads of 2025!
And get a beautiful page showing off your 3 favorite reads.
1,276
readers submitted
so far, will you?
📚 If you like Moonflower Murders, you might also like...
Rebel City
'There it is, the city of Liverpool,' says Henry Kitto, master of the Hannah Leigh three days out of Fowey in Cornwall with a cargo of China Clay standing beside Ben Pascoe, 'a cesspool of humanity and no mistake. Yet full of opportunity for them that can grab it.'
Thus,…
Citizen Orlov
Not every fishmonger can be a secret agent.
Journey to an unnamed mountainous country in central Europe at the end of the Great War. Enter Citizen Orlov, a simple fishmonger and an honest, upright citizen, who answers a phone call meant for a secret agent and stumbles into a hidden…
