Susan Ryeland is stepping back into the world of the Atticus Pünd mystery novels in Moonflower Murders , the follow-up to Magpie Murders , both of which are based on Anthony Horowitz's best-selling novels. She has since retired from book editing and is now running a boutique hotel in Crete with her boyfriend Andreas, but when a couple from England arrive and ask her to help find their missing daughter, she takes them up on their offer. After a man was murdered at their fancy Suffolk hotel Branlow Hall on Cecily's wedding day, she disappeared a short time later.
The clue to that mystery lies in one of Alan Conway's much-loved detective novels, in which the owner of another hotel, The Moonflower, is also murdered. Susan, as the foremost expert in the minutiae of Atticus Pünd, is their only hope. Read more: Moonflower Murders: Release date, cast, plot and trailer Moonflower Murders star Lesley Manville says series is "quite unexpected" Like Magpie Murders, filming for Moonflower Murders took place in Ireland, but a new location, one with a much hotter climate, was also used in the making of this series.
For more information, read on. Moonflower Murders filming locations When we first meet Susan in Moonflower Murders, she's living in Crete, so that's exactly where Lesley Manville and the crew filmed for that strand of the story . Speaking about how they went about making that possible, series producer Suzanne McAuley said: "First of all, we had to find a Greek production comp.