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The Game Is Murder

byHazell Ward

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Fifty years ago, Lord Verreman intended to kill his wife – but after striking out in the dark, murdered the family nanny instead.
Or so the story goes.
Because after that night, Lord Verreman disappeared.
With the lead suspect on the run, the case has never been brought to trial. The facts remain unclear – and the verdict, impossible to find.
Until now.
You’re invited to a murder mystery party. Thirteen guests have been gathered – rather, thirteen suspects.
It’s not just dinner on the menu tonight. Justice will be served, too.
Together, you have all the evidence you need to solve the case.
Can you solve the murder of the century? Or is there more to this mystery than meets the eye…

A tour-de-force meta mystery. There are puzzles for the reader to solve, frequent authorial intrusions, dozens of sly, knowledgeable references to detective fiction classics and unexpected twists galore. I’ll freely admit I was baffled much of the time, and the last-minute reveal of the murderer was a total surprise, but Ward’s book is so captivating that I eagerly kept turning the pages

The Washington Post

About Hazell Ward

Hazell Ward spent years as an adult education teacher, before completing an MA in Creative Writing at Manchester Metropolitan University. She enjoyed it so much, that she is now working for a PhD. She was shortlisted for the Margery Allingham Short Story Competition in 2021, and won the CWA Short Story Dagger in 2023 for her story, Cast A Long Shadow, published by Honno Press.

She lives and works in Wrexham, Wales.
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  • Imprint: Penguin
  • ISBN: 9781405970631
  • Length: 480 pages
  • Price: £9.99
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