(lively music) - "Moonflower Murders" is a murder mystery within a murder mystery.
- This is a sequel to "Magpie Murders" and also a prequel.
- "Magpie Murders" was the death of Alan Conway, and it almost caused the death of Susan Ryeland.
- So she makes the decision to go off to Crete with her boyfriend and open this small hotel.
- And two guests walk into her life with a story they tell her of their daughter, Cecily.
- She's gone missing.
We think it may be because of one of your books.
- [Anthony] And she's drawn back to England and to further murders.
- Before their daughter disappeared, a murder took place in their return.
(maid shrieking) - Alan Conway, the famous author of the Atticus Pund novels, decides to use this crime in his latest book.
- Which it transpires, has all the answers to the murder in 2015.
- Blood stains on the bridal gown.
- Oh, I like that.
- Susan played by the wonderful Leslie Manville has to go back and go through the book and try and solve a murder and a mystery.
- What makes "Moonflower Murders" different is the number of different worlds in it.
Modern world and the world of 1950s.
(bell dings) The world of golden age detectives and the real world.
- So everyone basically plays two people, which is very exciting.
- You've got my red car racing up the Suffolk countryside, and then Pund and his sidekick whizzing in the other direction.
And then the story takes you off with them.
- A hotel is a fantastic setup for a murder mystery, 'cause hotels have secrets, so you don't really know who is who and who has done what.
- It's irreverent and witty and a little bit naughty, a bit cheeky.
- Delicious writing, fabulous characters.
- With lots of twists and turns, but very, very unexpected ending.
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