But this wasn’t a holiday for me. I’d come to Greece after the catastrophe that was Magpie Murders. It was the last book I’d worked on and it had led to the death of the author, the collapse of my publishing company and the end of my career . . . in that order.
-- Narrator (Moonflower Murders: “Agios Nikolaos, Crete”)

Importance: Susan narrates that she moved to Crete only because she lost her publishing company and her job as an editor. She is unhappy with her life as co-manager and owner of a hotel and is looking for some way to get back to her old career when Lawrence and Pauline contact her about Cecily’s disappearance.

Of course, we called her,’ he said. ‘We both read the book and then we rang her several times from France. Finally, we got through to Aiden and he told us what had happened.’ He paused. ‘It seems that our...
-- Lawrence (Moonflower Murders: “Agios Nikolaos, Crete”)