Director: Rebecca Gatward
A missing woman, a novel that mirrors a real crime, and a retired editor pulled back into detective work by a book she once helped publish — Moonflower Murders is a 2024 British mystery mini-series built on a puzzle within a puzzle.
What is Moonflower Murders about?
Susan has stepped away from the publishing world entirely, trading London deadlines for a quieter life running a hotel in Crete with her partner Andreas. That calm ends when Cecily Treherne, the daughter of an old friend who manages a country hotel back in England, goes missing shortly after telling her family she'd figured out something troubling about a murder from eight years earlier. The case had already inspired a bestselling novel by author Alan Conway, who visited the hotel and later wove its details into fiction — but Cecily became convinced the book pointed to the wrong person having been arrested. To find her, Susan has to return to England and reread Conway's novel not as a story but as a set of clues, comparing its invented plot against the real people and grudges it was drawn from. The series moves between the present-day search and fragments of the fictional murder mystery itself, letting each timeline sharpen the other as the true culprit comes into focus.
Cast & crew
Lesley Manville leads as Susan, with Tim McMullan appearing as author Alan Conway and support from Alexandros Logothetis, Daniel Mays, Claire Rushbrook, Conleth Hill, Matthew Beard and Sanjeev Kohli across the hotel staff, family, and investigators tangled up in the case.
Context & significance
Directed by Rebecca Gatward, the series adapts Anthony Horowitz's novel of the same name and continues the format established by its predecessor, Magpie Murders, weaving a fictional whodunit inside the frame of a real-world disappearance so the two mysteries can be solved side by side.
Where & how to watch
Moonflower Murders streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, delivered through a Farsi-language interface built for Persian-speaking audiences. The page itself is free to browse; watching the episodes requires signing in to a K-Time account.