El crimen de la habitación 12 / The Moonflower Murder

About El crimen de la habitación 12 / The Moonflower Murder

Tras el éxito de la serie «Magpie Murders», la adaptación audiovisual de Un asesinato brillante, llega El crimen de la habitación 12, un desafío para aficionados a investigaciones detectivescas que demuestra nuevamente la maestría de Anthony Horowitz.
 
Susan Ryeland, insatisfecha con su nueva vida en Creta, echa de menos Londres. Un día, recibe la visita de Lawrence y Pauline Treherne, propietarios de Branlow Hall, un lujoso hotel en Inglaterra. El matrimonio pide ayuda a Susan para encontrar a su hija. Cecily desapareció poco después de asegurar a sus padres que el hombre que cumple condena por un crimen cometido en su establecimiento es inocente.

El día de la boda de Cecily, hace ocho años, Frank Parris, huésped del hotel, fue brutalmente asesinado a golpes en su habitación. Uno de los miembros del personal, Stefan Codrescu, fue declarado culpable y cumple condena en la cárcel. Sin embargo, después de leer la novela del difunto escritor Alan Conway, inspirada en el asesinato de Parris, Cecily se declaró convencida de la inocencia de Codrescu. Susan era la editora de Conway, por eso la pareja ha viajado a Creta; tal vez ella sea capaz de releer su novela y descifrar el misterio.

De vuelta en Inglaterra, Susan se instala en Branlow Hall, donde es recibida con hostilidad, evasivas e intentos de manipulación. Un asesino anda suelto.

ENGLISH DESCRIPTION

Featuring his famous literary detectives, Atticus Pund and Susan Ryeland, heroes of the worldwide bestseller Magpie Murders, a brilliantly complex literary thriller with echoes of Agatha Christie from New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz.

Retired publisher Susan Ryeland is living the good life. She is running a small hotel on a Greek island with her long-term boyfriend, Andreas. It should be everything she’s always wanted. But is it? She’s exhausted with the responsibilities of making everything work on an island where nothing ever does, and truth be told she’s beginning to miss London.

And then the Trehearnes come to stay. The strange and mysterious story they tell about an unfortunate murder that took place on the same day and in the same hotel in which their daughter was married—a picturesque inn on the Suffolk coast named Farlingaye Hall—fascinates Susan and piques her editor’s instincts. 

One of her former writers, the late Alan Conway, author of the fictional Magpie Murders, knew the murder victim—an advertising executive named Frank Parris—and once visited Farlingaye Hall. Conway based the third book in his detective series, Atticus Pund Takes the Cake, on that very crime. 

The Trehearne’s, daughter, Cecily, read Conway’s mystery and believed the book proves that the man convicted of Parris’s murder—a Romanian immigrant who was the hotel’s handyman—is innocent. When the Trehearnes reveal that Cecily is now missing, Susan knows that she must return to England and find out what really happened.

Brilliantly clever, relentlessly suspenseful, full of twists that will keep readers guessing with each revelation and clue, Moonflower Murders is a deviously dark take on vintage English crime fiction from one of its greatest masterminds, Anthony Horowitz.