Moonflower Murders is my third Anthony Horowitz mystery and I think it’s the best one thus far. This is a mystery with a full mystery book inside it (and even a short story type mystery embedded in the nestled mystery book!) Susan Ryeland was the editor for late author Alan Conway’s mystery series featuring Atticus Pünd. After Conway’s murder, she relocated to Greece to run a small hotel with her partner. One day a couple comes to see her with a rather preposterous proposal. Their […]

Anthony Horowitz’s The Word is Murder is so much fun. Its conceit is that Horowitz himself is a character. He is solicited to write a book about an unfolding murder by an ex-cop named Hawthorne. Hawthorne is Sherlock Holmes-ian in that he can deduce amazing things from small details. Hawthorne was let go from the police force for an incident he doesn’t go into, but is still hired as a consultant for hard-to-crack murders. In this case, the murder victim is Diana Cowper. She visits […]