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From the global bestselling author of Moonflower Murders and Close to Death comes an unputdownable new mystery in the Hawthorne and Horowitz series.


‘Easily the greatest of our crime writersSunday Times
'Nobody does this crime fiction better than Anthony HorowitzCrime Time FM
'Anthony Horowitz is a national treasure' Ragnar Jónasson

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The good news is that The Word is Murder, the first book in the Hawthorne series, is being turned into a major feature film.

The bad news is that the director is pretentious, the screenwriter thinks she’s Salman Rushdie, the stars hate each other and the producer has run out of money.

And things are about to get much worse.

In the third week of the shoot (in Hastings), the actor playing Hawthorne is murdered. It happens the day after the real Hawthorne and his hopeless assistant have visited the set. And now Hawthorne has no choice.
He has to investigate his own murder.

Is it possible that Hawthorne made the biggest mistake of his career and arrested the wrong man? And is it now time for him to pay the price?

The sixth book in the Hawthorne series is a wild ride through a world that the author knows only too well. It’s going to be the most surprising and shocking case Hawthorne has had to deal with so far.



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Readers love the Hawthorne & Horowitz series . . .

***** 'It’s Agatha Christie on steroids!'
***** 'Wow, this has got to be my favourite detective series ever!'
***** 'I had so much fun reading this book'
***** 'Outstanding . . . I loved it'
***** 'Honestly, the best crime read in a long time'

About Anthony Horowitz

Anthony Horowitz is responsible for creating and writing some of the UK’s most loved and successful TV series, including Midsomer Murders and Foyle’s War. He is the author of the teen spy series, Alex Rider, which has sold more than twenty million copies worldwide.

He has been widely praised for his murder mysteries which began with two highly acclaimed Sherlock Holmes novels and continued with the bestselling Hawthorne series in which he appears as the former detective’s hapless sidekick. In January 2022 he was awarded a CBE for his services to literature.

His novel, Magpie Murders, was made into a BBC drama starring Lesley Manville as editor Susan Ryeland. The sequel, Moonflower Murders, also starring Lesley Manville, was a BBC drama in 2024. Marble Hall Murders continues the story…
Details
  • Imprint: Century
  • ISBN: 9781529904321
  • Length: 400 pages
  • Price: £22.00
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