Moonflower Murders

Susan Ryeland Series #2

Susan Ryeland thought she had left mysteries behind. Now retired from publishing, she runs a small hotel on a Greek island with her longtime boyfriend, Andreas. But paradise has proved less idyllic than expected, and Susan is beginning to wonder whether she misses the life (and the mysteries) she left behind in London.

Then the Trehearnes arrive with a story she can't resist.

Years earlier, a man named Frank Parris was murdered at Farlingaye Hall, a picturesque hotel on the Suffolk coast, on the very day the Trehearnes' daughter was married there. The man convicted of the crime was the hotel's Romanian handyman, but the Trehearnes' daughter, Cecily, became convinced he was innocent after reading a novel by Susan's former client, the late Alan Conway.

Conway's book, Atticus Pünd Takes the Cake, was based on the murder—and Cecily believes that hidden within its pages are clues to what really happened.

Now Cecily has disappeared.

Susan returns to England to find her, retracing the real crime through the pages of Conway's fictional mystery. But as she follows the clues, she discovers that the novel may contain more than a clever solution to an old murder. Someone has gone to great lengths to keep the truth buried—and Cecily may have come dangerously close to uncovering it.

To find a missing woman, Susan must solve a murder that happened years ago. And this time, the clues are hidden in a book.