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Moonflower Murders premieres today

Moonflower Murders, the new TV series from Anthony Horowitz and Rebecca Getward, is out today.

Book editor-turned-sleuth (turned hotelier) Susan Ryeland (Lesley Manville) is living in Crete now, but her idyll is disturbed by the shadow of a murder committed at a British country hotel eight years ago. Can Susan uncover the secret hidden in the book before it’s too late?

[tvrundownusa]

tvrundown USA 2024.09.15

Sunday, September 15th:

(streaming weekly): Tulsa King (Para+, season 2 opener), SEAL Team (Para+), City of God: The Fight Rages On (MAX), Mission: Yozakura Family (hulu)

(streaming twice/week): Romance in the House (netflix, season 1 finale), Love Next Door (netflix)

(the Emmys): "Countdown to the Red Carpet" (E!, 60mins), "Live From the Red Carpet" (E!, 2hrs), "Red Carpet Live" (ROKU, EW+People special), "On the Red Carpet" (ABC, live, 60mins), The 2024 Primetime Emmy Awards (ABC, 76th annual, 3hrs), "E! After Party" (E!, 60mins)

(original made-for-TV movies): "Nightmare in the Desert" (LIFE, ~95mins)

(earlier - hour 0): *60 Minutes (CBS*, season 57 opener)

(hour 1): Ridley (PBS, season 2 opener), The Chosen (theCW, 90mins), Universal Basic Guys (FOX), . / Bob's Burgers (FOX)

(hour 2): Moonflower Murders (PBS, "Magpie Murders" sequel premiere), Snowpiercer (AMC|AMC+, penultimate), Emperor of Ocean Park (MGM+, season 1 finale), Industry (HBO, 65mins), The Great North (FOX) / . / The Great North (FOX, season 4 finale), The Chosen (theCW, contd), *Big Brother (CBS*)

(hour 3): Van der Valk (PBS, season 4 opener), "The Wonderland Massacre & The Secret History of Hollywood" (MGM+, part 2 of four)

(hour 4 - latenight): Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO, preempted), PSI Cops! ([adultswim], 30mins)

[*NFL note: CBS shows are scheduled for a 30-minute delayed start in Eastern time zone, additional delay possible.]

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First look at Moonflower Murders

A new trailer has been released for Moonflower Murders, which is set to release September 15, 2024.

Book editor-turned-sleuth (turned hotelier) Susan Ryeland (Lesley Manville) is living in Crete now, but her idyll is disturbed by the shadow of a murder committed at a British country hotel eight years ago. Can Susan uncover the secret hidden in the book before it’s too late?

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Today's Audiobook: Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz read by Lesley Manville and Allan Corduner. The sequel to Magpie Murders. #audiobook #moonflowermurders #anthonyhorowitz #author #lesleymanville #allancorduner #magpiemurders https://www.instagram.com/p/CE1GhTSnbTl/?igshid=cgg1wvffagqd

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Review: Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz

I received a free ARC of the book. Many thanks to Netgalley and to Random House for the opportunity.

Before picking up this book, I hadn’t read any Anthony Horowitz before, and that includes book #1 of this series, Magpie Murders. Moonflower Murders is book #2 in the Susan Ryeland series. As a reviewer it is sometimes helpful not to start at the beginning of a series. You can tell prospective readers whether this particular story can be read as a stand-alone. In this case it presented no difficulties, there appeared to be no crucial backstory missing. The murderer from book #1 was not outed, though I suspect that if you read Magpie Murders afterwards, your pool of suspects my be narrowed purely by their presence in Moonflower.

An elderly couple approach Susan Ryeland, formerly a publisher, now a hotelier in Greece. They want her to investigate the disappearance of their daughter. They believe it is related to a possible miscarriage of justice, eight years previously, that was hinted at in a fictional book based on a real murder. The author of that book is now dead, but Susan, as the publisher, may have inside knowledge. She agrees and returns to England to begin stirring up the past.

Horowitz’s writing is intelligent without being pompous. The plot is interesting and this book includes the full text of the whodunnit within, so it’s kind of a two for one. I became so engrossed by the book within the book, I was a little disoriented when the narrative returned to the original story. In the best tradition of the murder mystery, I attempted to spot the clues myself and identify the murderer before the narrator. I could say I succeeded but actually I suspected almost everyone at some point, which is, of course, a sign of a truly rip roaring whodunnit.

This is the kind of book that makes you instantly plan a reread to spot all the clues that the author dangled in front of you while you were looking the other way. There won’t just be a reread for me though. I felt that thrill a reader feels when they realise they have found a great new author to obsess over and immediately checks what other books they have written. I foresee many more Horowitz mysteries in my future.

Moonflower Murders is out 20th August 2020. Magpie Murders is out right now.

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