![]() ![]() They offer Susan a considerable amount of money to help them find their daughter: “You worked with the author, this man, Alan Conway. Something in Conway’s book seemed to convince Cecily that the hotel employee who was convicted of the crime, a Romanian immigrant, was actually innocent. It appears to have been inspired by a murder of a guest at the Trehernes’ hotel, which is considerably posher than Susan’s Greek establishment. Why would they go to such lengths to track down Susan? It seems Cecily vanished shortly after she finished reading one of Alan Conway’s best-selling novels, Atticus Pünd Takes the Case, a book that Susan worked on. One day, Pauline and Lawrence Treherne, an English couple, turn up at her hotel they want her to come to Suffolk and investigate the disappearance of their daughter, Cecily. The main character in Magpie, Alan’s editor Susan Ryeland, reappears in Moonflower, now living in Crete and operating a small hotel on the island after her London-based publishing company literally burned to the ground at the end of the first book. Surely Alan didn’t have other previously unseen manuscripts stashed away? It didn’t really seem like the sort of book which would spawn further installments, since it dealt with an unfinished novel by a dead author, Alan Conway. Moonflower Murders is the sequel to Magpie Murders, which was one of the cleverest and most delightful mysteries I’ve ever had the pleasure of reading. ![]()
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