Review: Moonflower Murders

Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I love Foyle's War and Midsomer Murders on TV and their creator turns out to be an excellent author as well. The Susan Ryeland two books are each two books in one and sometimes that is confusing to read.

In this one, Susan comes back from Greece where she's gone after the death of Alan Conroy, an author for who she acted as editor. She is with her lover, who has proposed, but she isn't ready to accept. She has been away from London long enough--she is living in Paradise but it isn't challenging enough and helping to run Andreas' hotel is boring and tedious and it isn't doing well financially.

Just as she is feeling trapped and miserable she receives a request from a guest and his wife. Come back to London and help them find their daughter who has disappeared without a trace. Their last contact with her is a phone call is which she says the murderer of one of THEIR guests 8 years ago has been identified in his novel. Who wrote the novel--Alan Conroy--and it is a book Susan edited They cannot figure out the clues supposedly found in the book. Would Susan come back with them and figure out the mysteries?

The money offered is good and would help Susan and Andreas repair their hotel and update its appliances. Going back to England will give Susan distance to evaluate her relationship with Andreas and determine where she wants to live--back in London or on Crete? So she accepts and goes off on her next mystery. To figure it out--we must with her, read Alan's last book--a mystery within a mystery--two books for the price of one!

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