Moonflower Murders
Susan Ryeland • Book 2
Narrated by Lesley Manville, Allan Corduner
Why Listen to This Audiobook?
Two narrators, two timelines, two murders — and you have to solve the embedded one before the real one makes sense.
- Great if you want: a layered mystery where reading itself becomes the detective work
- Listening experience: cerebral and patient — rewards listeners who sit with complexity
- Narration: Manville and Corduner split the frame story and nested novel beautifully
- Skip if: meta-fictional structures frustrate you more than intrigue you
About This Audiobook
Susan Ryeland has traded London publishing for running a boutique hotel on a Greek island, but domestic tranquility proves elusive. When a visiting couple shares the unsettling story of a murder at a Suffolk inn years earlier, Susan's editorial instincts sharpen. Their daughter read a novel by one of Susan's former authors and became convinced it holds the key to an innocent man's wrongful conviction. Now the daughter has vanished, and Susan must return to England to untangle a mystery that spans two crimes, two timelines, and a fictional detective who may hold real answers.
Lesley Manville anchors the contemporary narrative with measured intelligence, giving Susan a dry wit and quiet authority that grounds the story's elaborate structure. Allan Corduner handles the nested mystery novel sections with a more classical register, creating a satisfying sonic distinction between the two layers of the plot. The interplay between their performances mirrors the book's central conceit: fiction and reality bleeding into each other in ways that reward close listening. At nearly nineteen hours, it never drags.
